Hi,
I have a collection Songs which contains data in the following format:
{artist:"Dream Theater", title: "Pull me under"}, {artist:"Dream Theater", title: "Finally free"}
I am using the package mizzao-autocomplete There are more than 5000 entries, so I definetely need server-side autocompletion.
On server I published the collection:
Meteor.publish("autocompleteArtists", function(selector, options) {
Autocomplete.publishCursor(Songs.find(selector, options), this);
this.ready();
});
Client subscription looks like:
Template.home.helpers({
settings: function() {
return {
position: "top",
limit: 5,
rules: [{
collection: 'Songs',
subscription: 'autocompleteArtists',
field: "artist",
template: Template.songItem
}]
};
}
});
Should I have both collection and subscription in the settings() function?
Last part, the client template:
{{> inputAutocomplete settings=settings id="artistInput" type="text" placeholder="Artist" length="20"}}
My purpose is to look for an artist and when I select it, to subscribe to a simple server publish which returns all songs belonging to that artist. The thing is, if I have multiple entries with the same artist, of course, the list of results is showing the artist multiple times. I would need to to somehow a “distinct” publish which would return all artists, but there’s no such a feature in Meteor. I found some things implementing the aggregation and distinct, but I don’t see how to use Autocomplete publishCursor function… My temporary solution was to denormalize and add a Artists collection, but I should not do that.
Is there a simpler way?
