Material: autocomplete not working without cache with $resource response

[oscarr-reyes]

So it's basically what the question says, i have a function that returns a response from $resource which fetches from server.

var user = $resource(apiHost + '/users/:action/:query', {query: '@query'}, {
    search: {
        method: 'GET',
        isArray: true,
        params: {
            action: 'search',
            query: '@query'
        }
    }
});
self.search = function(name){
    return user.search({query: name}, function(result){
        return result;
    });
}

this is a service, i say this just to clear some confusions

now, in controller, where i am making the call to service function

$scope.searchUser = function(name){
    return userService.search(name);
};

it seems simple, but i have to admit i don't find any problem this far.

now in html where autocomplete is rendered

<md-autocomplete md-no-cache="true" md-search-text="searchText" md-selected-item="selectedItem" md-items="user in searchUser(searchText)" md-item-text="user.name">
    <span md-highlight-text="searchText">{{user.name}}</span>
</md-autocomplete>

now from here. i am not sure if the problem comes from here. but when i type something in autocomplete, nothing shows.. and i have been making sure the server is getting the requests i need to make.

I have tried without the attribute md-no-cache and the effects are kind of different. When some text is entered. nothing is shown.. but when part of the text is deleted, the autocomplete shows the results.

[oscarr-reyes]

i found the solution.. turns out, this was a problem with promises..

i had to make searchUser function to return a promise of the fetched data

$scope.searchUser = function(name){
    return userService.search(name).$promise;
};