select2: “text is undefined” when getting json using ajax

Question

I\'m having an issue when getting json results back to select2. My json does not return a result that has a \"text\" field so need to format the result so that select2 accepts \

Answer 1

note that select2 is always in {id,text} pair so you need to specify both

results: function (data, page) {
            var newData = [];
            _.each(data, function (item) {
                newData.push({
                    id: item.Id  //id part present in data 
                  , text: item.DisplayString  //string to be displayed
                });
            });
            return { results: newData };
        }
    },