I'm trying to get the selected value of a typeahead input and I get this error every time: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot assign to read only property 'highlight' of. It never tells me what object it's referring to and it originates from within the TypeAhead.min.js file, so I can't say exactly what line of my code is causing it. Here's the code I use to set up and capture the value of the input:

$(".articles.new").ready ->
  engine = new Bloodhound {
  datumTokenizer: Bloodhound.tokenizers.obj.whitespace('name'),
  queryTokenizer: Bloodhound.tokenizers.whitespace,
  local: autoplete_items
}

engine.initialize()

$('#auto_plete').typeahead { hint: true, highlight: true, minLength: 1 },  
  { name: "names", displayKey: "name", source: engine.ttAdapter()}

$('#auto_plete').on 'typeahead:selected', (event, selection) ->
  alert selection.name
  $('#auto_plete').typeahead 'setQuery', ''
  event.stopPropagation()
  return
return

For context: auto_plete items is an array of objects from my controller with name property. I'm working in Ruby on Rails 4.1.4.

What can I do to fix this error? What is causing it?

I'm trying to get the selected value of a typeahead input and I get this error every time: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot assign to read only property 'highlight' of. It never tells me what object it's referring to and it originates from within the TypeAhead.min.js file, so I can't say exactly what line of my code is causing it. Here's the code I use to set up and capture the value of the input:

$(".articles.new").ready ->
  engine = new Bloodhound {
  datumTokenizer: Bloodhound.tokenizers.obj.whitespace('name'),
  queryTokenizer: Bloodhound.tokenizers.whitespace,
  local: autoplete_items
}

engine.initialize()

$('#auto_plete').typeahead { hint: true, highlight: true, minLength: 1 },  
  { name: "names", displayKey: "name", source: engine.ttAdapter()}

$('#auto_plete').on 'typeahead:selected', (event, selection) ->
  alert selection.name
  $('#auto_plete').typeahead 'setQuery', ''
  event.stopPropagation()
  return
return

For context: auto_plete items is an array of objects from my controller with name property. I'm working in Ruby on Rails 4.1.4.

What can I do to fix this error? What is causing it?

• javascript
• jquery
• coffeescript
• typeahead.js
• typeahead

1 Answer 1

I figured this out after much experimenting. The error was ing from this line $('#auto_plete').typeahead 'setQuery', ''. I was trying to clear the value from the input box after taking some other action with it. I'm not too sure of the technical details, but using $('#auto_plete').typeahead 'val', '' instead achieved the desired effect without the error. I suppose that explains why the object was blank, it was referring to an empty query and trying to take actions with it.

If anybody can give me a more detailed explanation of the difference between the two API calls I'd be interested to hear it out of curiosity, but if not I'm just happy to move on.