[ckan-dev] autocompletes api

[Sean Hammond]

> I've run into an issue with the groups autocomplete.  It just is not
> flexible enough.
> 
> a) we really want the id and display name for a group to make life easier
> b) we cannot limit this to say groups I am a member of, or have a permission for
> c) we probably want to only get groups whos display name matches not
> the name or title
> 
> So the options seem to be
> 
> 1) make the existing api more flexible by extending it and keeping
> backwards compatibility,
> 2) create a new call that is more flexibly designed from the start
> 
> Anyone got an opinion on this or is aware of other issues around the
> autocompletes

If you can do 1 that's gonna be better than having two different
functions for the same thing