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    <p>Though the title might be either too specific or too vague, I have a question in regards to what the Autocomplete widget sends to my servlet when it attempts to retrieve a JSON object. The source option of the Autocomplete allows me to specify a URL to, in this case, my servlet where it expects a JSON object to be returned. Unfortunately, the jQuery UI Autocomplete documentation has me a bit confused:</p> <blockquote> <p>When a String is used, the Autocomplete plugin expects that string to point to a URL resource that will return JSON data. It can be on the same host or on a different one (must provide JSONP). The request parameter "term" gets added to that URL.</p> </blockquote> <p>Now, does this mean that if my servlet URL were something like: "<code>MyServlet</code>," would the new URL be "<code>MyServlet?term</code>"? I send multiple AJAX requests to this servlet, and I normally decipher what procedure I should take with each based on a parameter "command" that I post with each AJAX request. So, when the Autocomplete makes its request to my servlet, what exactly do I check to see if it's asking for this particular JSON? For every other request, I do something like this:</p> <pre><code>if(request.getParameter("command").equals("getUsers") { // Code to handle Getting Users... } else if(request.getParameter("command").equals("getEvents") { // Code to handle Getting Events... } else if(request.getParameter("command").equals("getBugs") { // Code to handle Getting Bugs... } </code></pre> <p>How can I check to see if the request is coming from the Autocomplete? Could I tag on this "command" parameter to the URL that I pass into the source, kind of like "<code>MyServlet?command=autocomplete</code>" to let it know, or would this even be necessary?</p> <p><em><strong>EDIT</strong>:</em> So after rereading the documentation, it actually sounds as though using a string referencing a URL as the source will basically make a request to that source each time it makes a search, and that "term" parameter simply carries what was in the search box when it began. In other words, does this mean that it doesn't simply load a JSON of <em>all possible</em> terms and just uses it like an array? Rather, it goes to fetch the possibilities at each search?</p>
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