Autocomplete displaying [object object] for list items instead of values

Question

My jQuery autocomplete looks like this...

If I do a console.log statement I can see that each of the list items actually has the key/value pair that I'm looking for however for whatever reason it won't display properly.I use an Ajax call to populate the list here's what the code looks like

Controller

    public JsonResult GetDistributorInfo(string term)
    {
        var banks = from c in db.BankListMaster.Where(n => n.BankName.Contains(term))
                    select new
                        {
                            Key = c.ID,
                            Value = c.BankName
                        };

        return Json(banks, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
    }

jQuery/Ajax

    var tempResults = [];
    $(function () {
        $('#DisplayDistributor').autocomplete({
            source: function (request, response) {
                $.ajax({
                    url: '@Url.Action("GetDistributorInfo", "Agent")',
                    type: 'GET',
                    dataType: 'json',
                    data: request,
                    success: function (data) {
                        tempResults = data;
                        response($.map(data, function (value, key) {
                            return {
                                label: value,
                                value: key
                            };
                        }));
                    },
                });
            },
            minLength: 2,
            select: function (event, ui) {
                console.log(ui);
                $('#DistributorId').val(tempResults[ui.item.key]);
                $('#DisplayDistributor').text(tempResults[ui.item.value]);

                return false;
            }
        });
    });

Answer 1

The data returned is an array of objects. The value parameter of your $.map() call contains the object, and the key parameter is the index of the item in the array (See the first "overload" here ). So you are setting the object itself as the label property, which is why it's being displayed as [object Object] .

Try this:

response($.map(data, function (item, idx) {
    return {
        label: item.Value,
        value: item.Key
    };
}));

Answer 2

You are using the item wrongly in the response and select method:

1) Your response should look like:

response($.map(data, function (item) {
    return {
        label: item.label,
        value: item.value
    };
}))

2) Your select should look like:

select: function (event, ui) {
    $('#DistributorId').val(tempResults[ui.item.value]); // You are using item.key here
    $('#DisplayDistributor').text(tempResults[ui.item.label]);

    return false;
}