PENDING BREAK
The good old import autocomplete_light API support will be dropped with
Django 1.9. All imports have moved to autocomplete_light.shortcuts and
importing autocomplete_light will work until the project is used with
Django 1.9.
To be forward compatible with Django master (>=1.9) support, replace::
import autocomplete_light
By:
from autocomplete_light import shortcuts as al
This will also make your scripts a lot shorter.
CSS BREAK
We've moved back to pre-1.1.10 CSS positioning. This means appending the
autocomplete box to an arbitrary DOM element (body by default) and using
calculating the top and bottom attribute in javascript with
yourlabs.Autocomplete.fixPosition() pretty much like Django admin's
calendar widget does. While blunt, this change should help the widget being
more compatible across Django admin themes.
While this positioning system has been used since around 2005 in Django
when Adrian Holovaty open sourced admin media in commit dd5320d, it has
never been documented that's it's a good system that works well and there's
no reason to break backward compatibility in Django admin for that
- note to Django admin template customizers.
JS BREAK
Javascript yourlabs.Autocomplete object does not bind to the same
events as it used too. Event handling has been backported from twitter
typeahead and tested on firefox and android (#411).
PYTHON BREAK
The form field doesn't call super().validate() anymore and now
completely relies on AutocompleteInterface.validate_values(). This was
how django-autocomplete-light was initially designed for, kudos to
@zhiyajun11 for pointing it out ! This optimises code which was doing
validation twice and gives the flexibility it was initially designed for
from within the Autocomplete class (#410).
SQL BREAK
Model Autocompletes now generate custom SQL be able to save the order in
which users have filled an autocomplete field. This actually comes from the
last 2.x version.
CHANGES
Most users won't notice the break except maybe the CSS ones and of course
also for Django 1.9 users.
- #419: ANSI SQL compliance (@sbaum)
- #413: Exception when using models having primary key names different from
id. - #412: Support models with a pk different than "id" and non-numeric.
(@mhuailin) - #411: Android compatibility (js bind changes).
- #410: Removed double validation by not calling suport of
Field.validate(). - #408: Support Django 1.8 change-link.
- #409: Compatibility with non-autocomplete inputs present in the widget
(@SebCorbin) - #318: Remove extra spaces rendered in choices.
- #438: Hide autocomplete on scroll in Firefox because it bugs (temp fix).
- #432: New bootstrap_modal test_app by @lucky-user.
- #118: Extracted JS into a standalone jquery-plugin:
https://github.com/yourlabs/jquery-autocomplete-light - Reduce default latency because hardware is better.
- #426: handle z-index since we're absolutely-positioning in 2.2.x
CONTRIBUTING CHANGES
The JS part has been extracted to be packaged as a standalone
jQuery library to get more pull requests on the JS / CSS part. It sounds
like a pretty good start in the JS / UI testing and packaging world. Any
help there is welcome.
CI now has tests against MySQL and PostgreSQL since we're generating custom
SQL.
Again welcome to new contributors @lucky-user @mhuailin and @SebCorbin and thanks all
for reporting issues on GitHub with all needed details and forks which make
it easy to reproduce.
And thanks to @blueyed who helped sinking this year's backlog like crazy.