On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 9:06 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: Something like that, although not quite complicated. HotCat's current version is ~3k lines of code, my JS is ~40 lines. Yeah, probably better to avoid the extra HTTP request. In any case, I managed to solve my issue for the time being, or so I think. Defining a "response" callback and fiddling with the API-supplied data there seems to do the trick: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AJack_Phoenix%2FAutocompl… It does still feel a tad bit hacky to me, so if some JavaScript guru knows of the proper way to do this, feel free to let me know! But at least now I can safely throw out some old and icky code in favor of this new code. :) Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer

That how i did it in the categories search in MobileFrontend, it's (in my opinion) the easiest solution: https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-MobileFrontend/blob/maste… Best, Florian -----Original-Nachricht----- Betreff: Re: [Wikitech-l] jQuery UI, opensearch API, categories and autocompletion -- oh my! Datum: Thu, 07 May 2015 01:16:38 +0000 Von: "Krinkle" &lt;krinklemail(a)gmail.com&gt; An: "wikitech-l Wikimedia List" &lt;wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Namespace information and variants thereof are readily available via mw.config wgNamespaceIds. You can manually remove any values with id 14 (category), or use mw.Title to do it for you. As for the UI library, I'd recommend using the jquery.suggestions module in a MediaWiki context. Avoid jQuery UI. This is already used for page inputs (e.g. search), and user name inputs (e.g. Special:Log). Creating an instance of it for categories should be straight forward. You can use mediawiki.searchSuggest or mediawiki.userSuggest as starting point: https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/blob/master/resources/src/mediawiki/… <https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/blob/master/resources/src/mediawiki/mediawiki.userSuggest.js>-- Krinkle_______________________________________________Wikitech-l mailing listWikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

I also did something similar for our wm-metrics [1], ended up with some jqueryUI + cutting the prefix with a callback method [2] (I am JS-0.5 ;-) [1] http://tools.wmflabs.org/wm-metrics/ [2] https://github.com/Commonists/wm_metrics/blob/master/app/static/commons-sea… Hope that helps, -- Jean-Fred