django-autocomplete-light: "The results could not be loaded"

Question

I'm developing a small project in Django and I would like to use the django-autocomplete-light plugin in a specific admin form field. I'm following this simple tutorial: link

The autocomplete field has been populated but when I start searching it prompt " The results could not be loaded ".

I don't understand why.

Answer 1

In this case, the first thing to check is your view. Opening firebug or webkit inspector on the Network tab displays the network requests. The autocomplete request should be visible here: try to open it manually, play with the GET parameters and see if it works as expected.

If it does, again in the inspector, in the Scripts tab, place a breakpoint in the processResults function and ensure that it returns the proper data for select2.

Answer 2

Thanks to jpic, using FireBug I've found that the error was "Cannot resolve keyword 'name'".

I solved adding related_name='name' to the model's foreignkey involved in this autocomplete thing.