How can I programmatically change the google maps api autocomplete login?

Question

I understand that in order to generate a place_changed event programmatically using the javascript Google Maps v3 API, you do the following:

google.maps.event.trigger(autocomplete, 'place_changed'); 

However, this simply calls the callback specified in the event, and actually does nothing with the <input> element that comes with it.

What I need to do is programmatically change the selection in the <input> autocomplete to a specific place or place specified in the place object obtained earlier with:

autocomplete.getPlace()

I can, of course, directly change the input value:

 input.value = 'Whatever'; 

But that does not change the choice of autocomplete. After that, the user must delete the entire line in the <input> , and then finally start typing again to get the autocomplete predictions again.

So, to summarize, I would like to programmatically change the choice of entering autocomplete google maps using a place object derived from places / autocomplete api. Is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

If you have a place object, you can do this via

 autocomplete.set("place", place) 

This will trigger the place_changed event in autocomplete