Adapting New Request flow to new wireframes: added type ahead search when creating new requests

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/app/controllers/request_controller.rb b/app/controllers/request_controller.rb
index 472f18f6e..b6111b087 100644
--- a/app/controllers/request_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/request_controller.rb
@@ -736,5 +736,17 @@ class RequestController < ApplicationController
             return
         end
     end
+
+    # Type ahead search
+    def search_typeahead
+        # Since acts_as_xapian doesn't support the Partial match flag, we work around it
+        # by making the last work a wildcard, which is quite the same
+        query = params[:q] + '*'
+
+        query = query.split(' ').join(' OR ')       # XXX: HACK for OR instead of default AND!
+        @xapian_requests = perform_search([InfoRequestEvent], query, 'relevant', 'request_collapse', 5)
+
+        render :partial => "request/search_ahead.rhtml"
+    end
 end