How to set optgroup in select2 using JSON

Question

How some items can be group in separate optgroups? Should be set in different JSON objects? There is no example in select2 documentation. Any help or direction would be helpful.

Here is example code of select population:

jQuery code:

 var data = [
          { id: 0, text: 'enhancement' }, 
          { id: 1, text: 'bug' }, 
          { id: 2, text: 'duplicate' }, 
          { id: 3, text: 'invalid' }, 
          { id: 4, text: 'wontfix' }
    ];

    $(".js-example-data-array").select2({
      data: data
    });

Answer 1

You need to set children attribute in your array to allow optgroups.

Example : https://jsfiddle.net/DinoMyte/8odneso7/13/

var data = [{
    id: 0,
    text: 'enhancement',
    children: [{
        id: 5,
        text: 'enhancement child1'
      },
      {
        id: 6,
        text: 'enhancement child2'

      }
    ]
  },
  {
    id: 1,
    text: 'bug'
  },
  {
    id: 2,
    text: 'duplicate'
  },
  {
    id: 3,
    text: 'invalid'
  },
  {
    id: 4,
    text: 'wontfix'
  }
];

$(".js-example-data-array").select2({
  data: data,
  width: 'auto'
});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/select2/4.0.3/css/select2.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/select2/4.0.3/js/select2.min.js"></script>
<select class="js-example-data-array">
</select>