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Hello Cagatay,

I have looked today dropdown feature in AutoComplete. Usable, but partually. Why do we ALWAYS need to send an ajax request (for completeMethod) to get all items from server? I would expect that list gets cached client-side without roundtrip to server when user clicks on "dropdown" icon next time. This is a similar concept what Tree or TabView have with "cache" attribute. Can you add this enhancement please?

Thanks for your effort.

Hmm... I can't imagine that nobody is interested in cached list. Can I create a future request, Cagatay?

@Oleg - it sounds very good...any update on this?

Sounds really nice, especially for small lists. But could blow up client side for large amount of data

It took 1 whole year to implement this complicated feature

http://blog.primefaces.org/?p=2577

It took 1 whole year to implement this complicated feature

Better 1 year than never Good job, thanks. But after 1 year I don't need this features anymore . At least in current projects.

I'm pretty sure, someone else would need it

Read the blog post... What I meant in the original post (1 year ago), was this feature:

User clicks on dropdown button in the Autocomplete --> list is fetched from the server --> subsequent clicks on the dropdown button should not fetch the list again if the caching is activated.

Does it work in this manner as well?

It should if search string is queried before regardless from input or dropdown.

Well, assume the Autocomplete didn't contain search string before (was empty, no input was done). We click on the dropdown list --> list is fetched --> we click on this button again --> what will happen if the caching feature is active?