React-admin: AutocompleteInput and ReferenceInput search in 'q'

Created on 3 Dec 2018 · 4Comments · Source: marmelab/react-admin

What you were expecting:
The AutocompleteInput component should send a request for searching the field defined as OptionName to the data provider.

What happened instead:
The AutocompleteInput component sends a request to search in field "q" to the data provider:
http://localhost:3000/code_country?order=id.desc&q=ilike.%2A%2A
which generates the error "column code_country.q does not exist".

Steps to reproduce:
Example:

<ReferenceInput label="resources.address.fields.country" source="country_id" reference="code_country">
  <AutocompleteInput optionText="name" optionValue="id" />
</ReferenceInput>

Environment

React-admin version: 2.4.4

Source

gmcadosch

Most helpful comment

You need to pass filterToQuery function prop into ReferenceInput

In your case filterToQuery={searchText => ({ name: searchText })}>

kctrlv on 3 Dec 2018

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All 4 comments

You need to pass filterToQuery function prop into ReferenceInput

In your case filterToQuery={searchText => ({ name: searchText })}>

kctrlv on 3 Dec 2018

👍6

yep, as @kctrlv said, it's not a bug, it's a feature!

fzaninotto on 3 Dec 2018

Thanks for this, it helped. But wouldn't it be better to disable this behaviour per default as it needs a special implementation of the data provider? Anyway, I'm happy now.

gmcadosch on 7 Dec 2018

I think this "feature" is kind of a hidden feature, I had to dig through the issues to find it :sweat_smile: