autoCollapse = true option makes an empty text of a search:locationfound event

[easz]

Basically I want to show search input text in the popup of a search marker.

new L.Control.Search({
  url: 'https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?format=json&q={s}',
  jsonpParam: 'json_callback',
  propertyName: 'display_name',
  propertyLoc: ['lat', 'lon'],
  marker: search_marker,
  autoCollapse: false, // otherwise the search input text will not be availble to use
}).on("search:locationfound", function(e) {
  search_marker.getPopup().setContent(e.text);
});

The problem is that I have to set autoCollapse to false, otherwise the text attribute of the event `search:locationfoundz will be empty.

Is it intended? bug? or should I do differently?

Demo: (try to set autoCollapse to true to see the problem)
https://jsfiddle.net/ewr2y67b/6/

[jt196]

Can verify this, been looking for ways to save the address of the searched item and up against the same problem - even grabbing the innerHTML of the JS DOM class "search-tip" doesn't work. Perhaps this is resolved in v3.0?

[PepeQuiroga]

This is the solution. When the event locationfound is fired on _handleSubmit, this occurs:

this.showLocation(loc, this._input.value);
this.fire('search:locationfound', {
latlng: loc,
text: this._input.value,
layer: loc.layer ? loc.layer : null
});

but, when autoCollapse == true, then showLocation sets this._input.value = ''. The solution is to
obtain a copy of this._input.value before showLocation:

var sText = this._input.value;
this.showLocation(loc, this._input.value);
this.fire('search:locationfound', {
latlng: loc,
text: sText,
layer: loc.layer ? loc.layer : null
});