In this answer, it was explained to me to use selectItem to get the select event.
But at this point, the model I bound to the text box is still the original text the user typed, not the select item.
I use
(selectItem)="search(model)"
to get the event, and in TS
search(model) {
this._service.search(model).subscribe(
results => this.results = results,
error => this.errorMessage = <any>error);
}
but as mentioned above, that calls my backend with the user-typed text, not the full text of the selected item of the typeahead.
My backend logs
2017/03/24 20:44:14 /api/typeahead/ok
2017/03/24 20:44:14 /api/search/ok
where the second should be /api/search/$actualSelectedItem.
You should be using $event to get the selected Items as below
<input type="text" class="form-control" (selectItem)="selectedItem($event)" [(ngModel)]="model" [ngbTypeahead]="search" [resultFormatter]="formatter" />
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<pre>Model: {{ model | json }}</pre>
clicked item {{clickedItem}}
Your method should be as
selectedItem(item){
this.clickedItem=item.item;
console.log(item);
}