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

(Updated answer — Oct 18^th 2018 UTC)

The place_changed documentation says:

If the user enters the name of a Place that was not suggested by the control and presses the Enter key, or if a Place Details request fails, the PlaceResult contains the user input in the name property, with no other properties defined.

So (as I mentioned in my comment), we can check if the property name is the only property in the PlaceResult object retrieved via Autocomplete.getPlace(). See and try the code snippet below:

(If the API key doesn't work, use your own.)

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

google.maps.event.addListener(gmaps, 'place_changed', function () {
  var place = gmaps.getPlace(),
    has_name = ( place && undefined !== place.name ),
    count = 0;

  // Iterates through `place` and see if it has other props.
  $.each( place || {}, function(){
    if ( count > 1 ) {
      // No need to count all; so let's break the iteration.
      return false;
    }
    count++;
  });

  if ( has_name && count < 2 ) {
    $('#test').html( 'You didn\'t make a selection and typed: ' + place.name );
  } else {
    $('#test').html( 'You selected: ' + place.formatted_address );
  }
});