Opened 13 years ago

Closed 13 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

#6639 closed enhancement (worksforme)

ui.autocomplete does not encode params prior to getJSON call

Reported by: paul.morgan Owned by:
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: ui.autocomplete Version: 1.8.6
Keywords: autocomplete encode encodeURIComponent getJSON XHR Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:

Description

The Autocomplete plugin does not encode user input "out of the box" when using a remote data source - it just pipes it straight into a getJSON call.

As you can imagine, depending on the data sent, you may or may not get away with this.

This can be sorted out by including:

var prop;
for(prop in request) {
   request[prop] = encodeURIComponent(request[prop]);
}

...prior to the getJSON() call on line 248.

Please find attached a copy of the unminified autocomplete source with this added.

Note the new lines of code on 237, 249-251.

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jquery.ui.autocomplete_withEncodeURIComponent.js (15.6 KB) - added by paul.morgan 13 years ago.
Version of ui.autocomplete 1.8.6 which uses encodeURIComponent() when using a remote data source

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Change History (3)

Changed 13 years ago by paul.morgan

Version of ui.autocomplete 1.8.6 which uses encodeURIComponent() when using a remote data source

comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by Jörn Zaefferer

Resolution: worksforme
Status: newclosed

$.getJSON delegates to $.get, which delegates to $.ajax, which uses $.param to serialize the data, which eventually uses encodeURIComponent.

If there's some way to send data without hitting encodeURIComponent, please provide a testcase.

comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by Scott González

Milestone: TBD

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