Get data using XMLHttpRequest request?

[craigmichaelmartin]

Is there a way to use the older (better supported) XMLHttpRequest function to get results for the autocomplete?

It looks like the current API depends on the data.src function returning an array, or a promise that resolves to an array. In an effort to support as many browsers as possible, I was hoping to using XMLHttpRequest rather than fetch and promises. To support this, the data.src function would need to accept as a parameter a callback function which the data from the API would be passed to - rather than them (or a promise which resolves to them) being returned.

I'm guess this library pre-existed standardized promises, so was wondering if this was/is part of the API, just not shown anymore. Or perhaps the internals of the library now depend on an environment which supports promises, making this a moot effort.

Thanks so much for the great library!!

[folknor]

Yes, #255 (comment)

[craigmichaelmartin]

Thanks for the quick response! This still is the path of using promises. I was wondering if there was support for a path which doesn't involve promises.

[folknor]

Ah, I see.

Well then you'll probably want to investigate pointing data.src to a non-function structure that supports forEach that you wrap in a Proxy to detect access.

Even still the autoComplete.js code internally uses await earlier in the call chain, so you can't avoid it.

Is that what you wanted? Is this question also asking for a change to autoComplete.js internals?
EDIT: If so this might be useful to the maintainer (though I've not read it, I just found it), unless he makes it a flag somewhere; https://lsm.ai/posts/7-ways-to-detect-javascript-async-function/

Or are you actually looking for coding help?

How does a JS engine that doesn't know Promises behave when its parser encounters the await keyword?

[craigmichaelmartin]

Gotcha, thanks! Not looking for coding help - just wondering if the API supported it. It sounds like a moot point anyway if promises are used internally. Not looking to change autoComplete internals. Thanks for your feedback!