selected property doesn't work

[ghost]

Here's a JS Fiddle demo that demonstrates the problem described below.

I tried setting the following as the source JSON

source: [
    {"label":"bank1","value":3},
    {"label":"bank2","value":5},
    {"label":"bank3","value":6, "selected": "selected"}
]

But the 3rd option wasn't selected. I also tried

source: [
    {"label":"bank1","value":3},
    {"label":"bank2","value":5},
    {"label":"bank3","value":6, "selected": true}
]

But this didn't work either. None of the following work either:

source: [
    {"label":"bank1","value":3},
    {"label":"bank2","value":5},
    {"label":"bank3","value":6}
],
selected: 2

source: [
    {"label":"bank1","value":3},
    {"label":"bank2","value":5},
    {"label":"bank3","value":6}
],
selected: 6

source: [
    {"label":"bank1","value":3},
    {"label":"bank2","value":5},
    {"label":"bank3","value":6}
],
selected: "bank3"

[dnasir]

@domurtag

Thanks for the report.

Apparently the plugin is trying to set the selected item too early in the initialisation process, even before the Ajax requests have had a chance to fire (if needed).

I'll commit a fix soon.

[dnasir]

@domurtag

I've updated your jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/Qxaa9/1/

Please confirm that the problem has been solved. I'll merge it into the master branch once I get confirmation. Thanks.

[ghost]

Your example works, but if I set the selected value in the JSON it doesn't work. I'm not sure what value I should use for the selected property (the docs don't specify) but I guess it's one of these:

http://jsfiddle.net/Qxaa9/2/
http://jsfiddle.net/Qxaa9/3/
http://jsfiddle.net/Qxaa9/4/

[dnasir]

@domurtag

Apparently I missed that one. Fixed in dev. The method to set the selected item when providing an array as data source is by setting selected: true

[ghost]

Is it safe to use the dev branch or should I wait until the fix is merged to master?

[dnasir]

@domurtag I'll merge this into the master branch soon.

[ghost]

Thanks for fixing this, it might be worth mentioning in the docs that the value of the selected property should be true