javascript - Select2 - use JSON as local data -

i can work...

var options = [{id: 1, text: 'adair, charles'}]   $('#names').select2({     data: options, }) 

but cant work out how here...

alert(json.stringify(request.names)) gives me...

[{"id":"1","name":"adair,james"}, {"id":"2","name":"anderson,peter"}, {"id":"3","name":"armstrong,ryan"}] 

to select2 accept local data

load data local array

the webpage of jquery-select2 examples contains demo use select2 with local data (an array).

the html

<input type="hidden" id="e10" style="width:300px"/> 

the javascript

$(document).ready(function() {       var samplearray = [{id:0,text:'enhancement'}, {id:1,text:'bug'}                        ,{id:2,text:'duplicate'},{id:3,text:'invalid'}                        ,{id:4,text:'wontfix'}];      $("#e10").select2({ data: samplearray });  }); 

select2 load data if array has no text property

for question example e10_2 relevant

<input type="hidden" id="e10_2" style="width:300px"/> 

to achive need function format() seen below:

$(document).ready(function() {       // tell select2 use property name text     function format(item) { return item.name; };      var names = [{"id":"1","name":"adair,james"}              , {"id":"2","name":"anderson,peter"}              , {"id":"3","name":"armstrong,ryan"}]      $("#e10_2").select2({             data:{ results: names, text: 'name' },             formatselection: format,             formatresult: format                             });  }); 

this output:

hint

to see source code of each example best use network tab of chrome dev tools , take of html source before javascript kicks in.