Added wait-time-ms option

[ffesseler]

This allow to set a timeout before getMatchesAsync is called after the last key stroke.

This is useful when getting data from a remote source. Basically, you don't want to send the request on each stroke.

[pkozlowski-opensource]

@ffesseler this is great stuff and I would be really keen on merging this!

But it doesn't merge cleanly at the moment as you seem to based your branch on the 2-months old code. Could you rebase it on top of the current master? I've also left some comments in the source code.

[ffesseler]

Oops sorry, I didn't notice that.
I'll fix everything asap.

[ffesseler]

Commited. Let me know if that's ok for you

[bekos]

@ffesseler I think there is something messed with you latest commits, because I can see the datepicker file in the changed files.

[ffesseler]

aw :-(

I had some issues doing the rebase, I've probably typed something wrong.
Any idea how I can resolve this? I'm not comfortable with git at all

[bekos]

@ffesseler The last solution, would be to close this pull request and open a new one, over the latest master :-)

[pkozlowski-opensource]

@ffesseler It got a bit messy and I'm not sure I will be able to guide you through exact git commands remontly. What I would probably do in this case is to create a new branch of a master:

git checkout master
git checkout -b typeahead-timeout

then cherry-pick commits with your changes:

git cherry-pick [your commit 1]
git cherry-pick [your commit 2]
git cherry-pick [your commit 3]

and then interactively rebase to squash commits:

git rebase -i HEAD~3

If this all sounds overwhelming you might want to look at git docs (there is excellent free book: http://git-scm.com/book).

If you are not into spending time messing with git (which IMO is worth learning well!) just open a new pull request, from a new branch created of the master with your code moved manually.

[pkozlowski-opensource]

@ffesseler Haven't heard from you and had a bit of hard time to clean up your git history so in the end decide to re-do things in 7f35a3f.

Thnx for this PR and inspiration, the most important part is that the code landed in master!

[ffesseler]

Sorry, I've been very busy lately. It was on my todo list but I wasn't able to find sometime to invest in all that git stuff.
Thanks for your help, glad it's now available in master :)

[socket70]

I've been playing with this and it seems not to work correctly. While there is a delay before the first async request is sent, if I type in 3 characters, it ultimately sends 3 async requests.

For example, a field that is used for looking people up from the server by last name, if I type in "smi" in firebug after the 1000ms delay i see 3 requests:

get s
get sm
get smi

Instead of just the last one.

[pkozlowski-opensource]

@socket70 Please open another issue with a reproduce scenario.

[socket70]

Opened issue #573.