Add dynamic content to Autocomplete

[jackbemi]

Is this related to a new or existing framework?

I use react, but would be nice if it worked on any.

Is this related to a new or existing API?

Existing API: Autocomplete form field.

Is this related to another service?

Would require a DynamoDB query

Describe the feature you'd like to request

get dropdown list values dynamically from a dynamoDB table

Describe the solution you'd like

When a user opens a page with a dynamic autocomplete field, it queries dynamo to retieve dropdown values.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I have considered either using a build script to get the values from the table and add them into the page before deploying the static content.

To update the values dynamically, I think I can figure out a way to have the frontend query an API which checks the 'approved values per field' table and updates the dropdown list in the frontend, but manually editing bundled js components would be a pain.

Additional context

I'd be happy to make a contribution, but would need some advice on where to start as I have not yet read the amplify-js source. I'm also not sure how this would impact the amplify studio.

Is this something that you'd be interested in working on?

• 👋 I may be able to implement this feature request
• ⚠️ This feature might incur a breaking change

[cwomack]

Hey, @jackbemi 👋. We appreciate you opening this feature request and will review this with our team internally. For some additional context, can you clarify if this is specific to the GraphQL category or Amplify Studio? And is this on a v5 app that you're using Amplify Studio on, or v6? Any additional clarity would be appreciated so we can understand this feature request a little better. Thanks!

[jackbemi]

I'm using Gen 1 v6, although I'm hoping to make some time to upgrade to Gen 2 soon.
I would love it if this feature was available in the Amplify Studio related issue where I could just select a dynamo table as a source for the dropdown options in an autocomplete or a similar select-from-options type input field.
as a P2, it would also be awesome if I could use this with the new partial pre-rendering techniques to initiate the dynamo query as soon as the page loads instead of waiting for the client to render the input box that needs the dynamic content.

[chrisbonifacio]

Closing this in favor of the feature request opened on the amplify-studio repo:

aws-amplify/amplify-studio#1108