The autoComplete component provides suggestions while you type into the input field. This enables users to quickly find and select from the list of looked-up values as they type, which leverages the searching and filtering abilities.
For simple usage of the autoComplete component, all we need is to define the complete method that will be invoked with the user input as follows:
<p:autoComplete id="simple" value="#{autoCompleteController.txt1}"
completeMethod="#{autoCompleteController.complete}" />This will be rendered as shown in the following screenshot:
As the user types characters into the input text, as shown in the preceding screenshot, the component will assist 10 selections by appending numbers from 0 to 9. The completeMethod implemented for this in the autoCompleteController backing bean is shown in the following code snippet. The user input is given as the parameter to the method.
public List<String> complete(String input...