jQuery autocomplete pass null parameter to the controller in ASP.NET MVC 2

I'm using jQuery autocompl开发者_如何学JAVAete plugin from jQuery website calling the controller url which return json in return. The problem is the parameter sent to the controller is always null.

Here is the in-browser jQuery code for the autocomplete:

$(document).ready(function() {
    var url = "/Building/GetMatchedCities";
    $("#City").autocomplete(url);
});

and here is the ASPNET MVC controller signature in C#:

public JsonResult GetMatchedCities(string city)
{
    ..
    return this.Json(query, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}

Thanks in advance,

Mohammad

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I had this same problem. After looking at the URL created by JQuery in Fiddler, I discovered that it looked like this: /MyController/MyMethod?term=x. So I changed my method signature to use the parameter name 'term' instead of 'q' ('q' is shown in the JQuery website autocomplete examples.). This fixed the problem and I was able to still return the JsonResult I needed.

    public JsonResult MyMethod(string term) 
    {
        ...
        return Json(query, JsonRequstBehavior.AllowGet);
    }

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Try adding the city data as extraParms:

$("#City").autocomplete(url, {
extraParams: { city: $('#City').val() }
});

This is assuming the $('#City') is an input of type text when using the .val

-- Edited --

Based on your feedback the answer is:

The controller should be:

public JsonResult GetMatchedCities(string q)
{
    ..
    return this.Json(query, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}

The jquery would be:

 $(document).ready(function() { 
    var url = "/Building/GetMatchedCities"; 
    $("#City").autocomplete(url); 
 });

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When I did this, I specified the source option on autocomplete to be a function that called out to the ASPNET app. This allowed me to specify the URL directly. For you it would like this:

$("#City").autocomplete({
    source: function(req, responseFn) {
        addMessage("search on: '" + req.term + "'<br/>", true);

        $.ajax({
            url     : ajaxUrlBase1 + "GetMatchedCities/" + req.term,
            cache   : false,
            type    : "GET", // http method
            success : function(msg){
                // ajax call has returned
                var result = msg;
                if (result !== null){
                  var a = [];
                  for(var i=0; i < result.length; i++) {
                    a.push({label: result[i].cityname, id: result[i].abbrev});
                  }
                  responseFn(a);
                } else {
                  responseFn(null);
                }
            }
        });
    }
});

Of course, what you do inside the success fn would depend on the shape of the json you return from your Action.