How does one populate search results from a custom async data source?

[designosis]

I'm using the following ...

        $('#search').search({
            type: 'category',
            showNoResults: false,
            minCharacters: 3,
            searchDelay: 400,
            source: [],
            onSearchQuery: function( query ){
                $('#search .ui.icon.input').addClass('loading');
                $('#search').search('cancel query');
                MyAJAX(query);
            },
            onSelect(result) {
                  mySelectFunction(result);
            }
        });

... to hijack the lovely search UI and get results the way I need to. I can't use API

MyAXAJ creates the following array ...

    $res = [
        {"category":"Cat1", "title":"Title 1", "myID":"123"},
        {"category":"Cat1", "title":"Title 2", "myID":"634"},
        {"category":"Cat2", "title":"Title 3", "myID":"284"}
    ];

... and then spits out a javascript call like this:

    $('#search .ui.icon.input').removeClass('loading');

    // WHAT WILL WORK HERE? (This does not)
    $('#search').search('add results',
        $('#search').search('generate results', { results: $res })
    );

This last bit is my failed attempt at showing my results via the category template, using code I found here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38033330/semantic-ui-search-custom-data-source.

(ALSO an FYI: The API callbacks on https://fomantic-ui.com/modules/search.html are broken.)

A super hacky solution is to call $('#search').search('destroy'); then re-instantiate the $('#search').search(), passing $res as the source. But now I have to enter my search twice because the source wasn't there before. Which makes me thing there may be a way to trigger the search via set value, but that becomes so convoluted, and there must be a simpler way. I just need a way to push my custom results to Fomantic UI's search results, such that my onSelect function is passed the entire result (including myID)

Any advice on how to do this?

[designosis]

I'm curious, is this an extremely odd request?
Is it just not possible to populate search results without using the Fomantic API without massive coding chops?

[lubber-de]

Try parse response instead which will do generateresults and addresults and a few extra internal stuff

Havent tried myself though...

$('#search').search('parse response', { results: $res });