got it!

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got it!

Mucking around with how jQuery expects JSON to be formatted and doing my Google research I finally found the answer. for jQuery autocomplete you need to override the default data parser to tease out the key value pairs from the verbose Domino JSON object using the undocumented "parse" parameter of autocomplete. Use parse to specify a function that reads the JSON data and extracts an array of key value pairs. Then use the (documented) format parameter of jQuery to return the individual item. I now have a reasonably succint jQuery autocompleter.

hat tip vezult on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/737453/what-does-formatresult-and-formatitem-options-do-in-jquery-autocomplete/737503

UPDATE: code here: http://www.critical-masses.com/jakeofalltrades/quick-n-easy-ajax-domino-name-lookup

Feedback response number WEBB7RLTJF created by ~Hal Churepuloopsi on 04/30/2009