Search using API with autosuggest?

[Benjamin]

When implementing search over API as mentioned here , is it possible to have search results displayed as you type, just as on the community itself?

How to go about this?

[VarunGrazitti]

@Benjamin - Yes, but you'd have to develop that yourself using this API. There are a lot of examples online and we have implemented this custom instant search for a few of our customers. 

http://www.optiverse.com/

http://community.centrify.com/

For your reference, please check these links. 

http://www.trycatchclasses.com/angularjs-instant-search-example/ 

https://codepen.io/shahansha/pen/pvWJyv

or you can try JS instant search, just use this API as the source.

I hope this helps.

Thanks,

Varun

[Benjamin]

I bring up a question from our devs.:

We tried to make the search request on a different domain as the community. 

Lithium Community page does not contain any "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" header parameter in their response and because of that, it is not possible to make a proper AJAX request ( from JavaScript ). If AJAX response does not contain configured "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" header parameter, then it is not possible to make cross domain requests.

Is it possible to configure this for the Community page? 

Or is there some kind of specific "public Lithium API Endpoint", against which there would be no problem to make AJAX requests?

[ChiaraS]

CORS can be enabled for specific domains/urls by Lithium Professional Services or Support.

Note that CORS is only supported for REST API urls and custom endpoints.

[VarunGrazitti]

As @ChiaraS mentioned, you could get the CORS enabled. We have done it already.