try basic autocomplete for authority records

gazetteer/places/admin.py

@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ class featuresForm(forms.ModelForm):
   url = forms.CharField(label='URI',
                               required=True,
                               widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'size': '40'}))
+  authority_record = AutoCompleteSelectField('authority_record', required=False)
+
 #  exclude = ('info',)
 
   class Meta:

gazetteer/settings.py

@@ -84,6 +84,17 @@ MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
     'debug_toolbar.middleware.DebugToolbarMiddleware',
 )
 
+AJAX_LOOKUP_CHANNELS = {
+    # the simplest case, pass a DICT with the model and field to search against :
+    'authority_record' : dict(model='places.authorityrecord',search_field='preferred_name'),
+    # this generates a simple channel
+    # specifying the model Track in the music app, and searching against the 'title' field
+
+    # or write a custom search channel and specify that using a TUPLE
+#    'contact' : ('peoplez.lookups', 'ContactLookup'),
+    # this specifies to look for the class `ContactLookup` in the `peoplez.lookups` module
+}
+
 ROOT_URLCONF = 'gazetteer.urls'
 
 TEMPLATE_DIRS = (

gazetteer/static/css/jquery.autocomplete.css

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+.ac_results {
+	padding: 0px;
+	border: 1px solid black;
+	background-color: white;
+	overflow: hidden;
+	z-index: 99999;
+}
+
+.ac_results ul {
+	width: 100%;
+	list-style-position: outside;
+	list-style: none;
+	padding: 0;
+	margin: 0;
+}
+
+.ac_results li {
+	margin: 0px;
+	padding: 2px 5px;
+	cursor: default;
+	display: block;
+	/* 
+	if width will be 100% horizontal scrollbar will apear 
+	when scroll mode will be used
+	*/
+	/*width: 100%;*/
+	font: menu;
+	font-size: 12px;
+	/* 
+	it is very important, if line-height not setted or setted 
+	in relative units scroll will be broken in firefox
+	*/
+	line-height: 16px;
+	overflow: hidden;
+}
+
+.ac_loading {
+	background: white url('indicator.gif') right center no-repeat;
+}
+
+.ac_odd {
+	background-color: #eee;
+}
+
+.ac_over {
+	background-color: #0A246A;
+	color: white;
+}

gazetteer/templates/admin/places/feature/change_form.html

@@ -2,8 +2,12 @@
 
 {% block extrahead %}
     {{ block.super }}
+    <script type="text/javascript" src="/static/js/jquery.js"></script>
+    <script type="text/javascript" src="/static/js/jquery.autocomplete.min.js"></script>
+    <!-- jquery autocomplete from: https://github.com/agarzola/jQueryAutocompletePlugin -->
     <script type="text/javascript" src="/static/js/feature_admin.js"></script>
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/css/feature_admin.css" />
+    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/css/jquery.autocomplete.css" />
 {% endblock %}
 
 {% block after_related_objects %}

gazetteer/urls.py

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ urlpatterns = patterns('',
     ('^search_related_json$', 'places.views.search_related_json'),
     # Uncomment the admin/doc line below to enable admin documentation:
     (r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),
-
+    (r'^ajax_select/', include('ajax_select.urls')),
     # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
     (r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
 )