Places: PlaceAutocompleteType is missing values

[michael-ameri]

Environment details

Library version: 2.1.2

Code example

PlacesApi.placeAutocomplete(someContext, "Zurich", new PlaceAutocompleteRequest.SessionToken())
            .types(PlaceAutocompleteType.ESTABLISHMENT)

2 issues:

1. The PlaceAutocompleteType enum only covers a small subset of available types according to https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/supported_types#table2
2. There is no way to use multiple types, which is possible via REST calls.

[n10v]

1. The PlaceAutocompleteType enum only covers a small subset of available types according to https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/supported_types#table2

Found workaround with .custom method:

PlacesApi.placeAutocomplete(someContext, "Zurich", new PlaceAutocompleteRequest.SessionToken())
            .custom("types", "route")

2. There is no way to use multiple types, which is possible via REST calls.

You can chain calls to have multiple types:

PlacesApi.placeAutocomplete(someContext, "Zurich", new PlaceAutocompleteRequest.SessionToken())
            .types(PlaceAutocompleteType.ESTABLISHMENT)
            .types(PlaceAutocompleteType.ADDRESS)  

[n10v]

Actually I just tried to chain calls and the last value overwrites the first one :(

[marcoserafini2]

1. In an Autocomplete request, it is possible to filter by at most one element of the types contained in the enum PlaceAutocompleteType. This is correct https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/autocomplete?hl=it#types

2. What should be added is the possibility to filter an autocomplete request with multiple types that are not part of the enum PlaceAutocompleteType.

For example, we could introduce on PlaceAutoCompleteRequest:

 /**
   * Restricts the results to places matching the specified types
   *
   * @param types The {@link PlaceType}s to restrict results to.
   * @return Returns this {@code PlaceAutocompleteRequest} for call chaining.
   */
  public PlaceAutocompleteRequest types(PlaceType... types) {
    return param("types", join('|',  types));
  }

What do you think @n10v ?

[n10v]

1. The link is leading to the following URL, which shows 0 issues for me (probably the issues are private): https://github.com/googlemaps/google-maps-services-java/issues/url
2. Makes sense!