I'd suggest pushing the entire list of suggestions to the client when they hit the page, then using something like:
http://wiki.github.com/madrobby/scriptaculous/autocompleter-local The list of suggestions could either be static, or stored in the data store. We do this for www.fyood.com which has about 6K suggestions. Adam On Jan 6, 10:46 am, "bowman.jos...@gmail.com" <bowman.jos...@gmail.com> wrote: > If it's going to make a request each time it needs to calculate next > suggestions, you could quickly hit your requests quota. When doing > Ajax style functionality on your appengine site, it's best to keep in > mind you have a finite amount of requests available to your > application per day. > > On Jan 6, 9:58 am, "Barry Hunter" <barrybhun...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > You could use something like > > thishttp://developer.yahoo.com/yui/autocomplete/ > > > the python script to output csv, or xml based on the datastore query > > should be fairly trival. > > > 2009/1/6 Shay Ben Dov <shay.ben...@gmail.com>: > > > > Hi Everybody, > > > > Has anyone tried to implement a suggestions based on user input like > > > inGmail when you start to key in the To: field and you get a lists of > > > suggested names read from your contacts. > > > > I wish to implement the same reading suggestions from a datastore > > > table based on user keyed_in input. > > > > Every assistance is appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Shay Ben Dov > > > -- > > Barry > > > -www.nearby.org.uk-www.geograph.org.uk- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
