Response from: ramkumar    (06/12/06 12:15am)

Hi,
Are you caching the results in the client side? I integrated DWR with script aculo for autocompletion. But it is hitting the server everytime i press a letter. For example, if i press 'A', it is getting results for 'A' and if i press one more letter with 'A', it should not hit the server instead it should get it from the cache. Can you please tell me how if you implemented cache for this?. Also how you are invalidating and controlling the cache?

thanks,
Ramkumar

Response from: Jason    (06/13/06 1:09pm)

I have not implemented a cache at all at this point on the client. This is still in the dev. stage with me. I'm starting SIT in a couple weeks to see how well it holds up. One on the client would not be so easy for me because I do not consider myself a JavaScript guru.

However, a way would be to customize the populateAutocomplete() function. Simple save the results from with first call to an array(hashtable?). Check if that list is null on subsequent calls and if not than search your cached list with a js regex call. clear/create your initial list on page load. I'm sure that over simplifies things but that is my thought process.