Events other than 'place_changed' for Google Maps Autocomplete

Question

I have an app that currently fires correctly on place_changed.

However, I want to branch search to behave differently when a user has selected an autocomplete entry, and when they have entered text on their own without the assistance of autocomplete.

What kind of event listener should I use to make the distinction? I cannot find any documentation on other events for Google Maps Autocomplete.

what I have now:

var gmaps = new google.maps.places.Autocomplete($("#searchproperties").get(0),  { types: ['geocode'], componentRestrictions: {country: 'us'} });  google.maps.event.addListener(gmaps, 'place_changed', function () {     //FIRE SEARCH }); 

Answer 1

There is only one documented event in the Google Maps Javascript API v3 for the google.maps.places.Autocomplete class, place_changed

You can add standard HTML event listeners to it (not sure if that will affect the Autocomplete functionality).

Answer 2

This comes down to checking whether you receive a place.geometry object, as it is shown in their official example. As simple as that!

function initialize() {      var ac = new google.maps.places.Autocomplete(      (document.getElementById('autocomplete')), {        types: ['geocode']      });      ac.addListener('place_changed', function() {        var place = ac.getPlace();        if (!place.geometry) {        // User entered the name of a Place that was not suggested and        // pressed the Enter key, or the Place Details request failed.        // Do anything you like with what was entered in the ac field.        console.log('You entered: ' + place.name);        return;      }        console.log('You selected: ' + place.formatted_address);    });  }    initialize();

#autocomplete {    width: 300px;  }

<input id="autocomplete" placeholder="Enter your address" type="text"></input>  <script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?libraries=places"></script>