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,

Answer 1

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;
}