I am using django with bloodhound in prefetch mode like in the official example.
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
var countries = new Bloodhound({
datumTokenizer: Bloodhound.tokenizers.whitespace,
queryTokenizer: Bloodhound.tokenizers.whitespace,
// url points to a json file that contains an array of country names, see
// https://github.com/twitter/typeahead.js/blob/gh-pages/data/countries.json
prefetch: '../static/data/countries.json'
});
// passing in `null` for the `options` arguments will result in the default
// options being used
var typeahead_elem = $('.typeahead');
typeahead_elem.typeahead({
name: 'countries',
source: countries
});
})
The difference with the official example is the url. I use '../static/data/countries.json' But I know by checking the server and using firebug network tab that no request is sent. WHEREAS (and now it becomes strange) if I use '../data/countries.json'. Then the request is sent and becomes a 404. But with firebug I can edit it and resend. And putting '../static/data/countries.json' works, it comes back code 304.
Why is my original '../static/data/countries.json' not sent ??
Btw, why is 'countries.initialize();' not needed ?
