Angular Material: How to validate Autocomplete against suggested options?

Question

We have an autocomplete input with required validation. When a user searches for an option by entering a query (but doesn't pick any of the options) then the input is valid, even though it doesn't match any of the suggested options.

What I want to achieve is not permitting the user to post the form unless one of the suggested options is selected. How do I achieve this?

<mat-form-field>
   <input matInput placeholder="Pick one" aria-label="pick one" [matAutocomplete]="auto" [formControl]="form.controls['SELECTBOX_VALUE']">
      <mat-autocomplete #auto="matAutocomplete">
           <mat-option *ngFor="let option of myOptions | async" [value]="option.name"> <span>{{ option.name }}</span> </mat-option>
            </mat-autocomplete>
</mat-form-field>
<small *ngIf="!form.controls['SELECTBOX_VALUE'].valid && form.controls['SELECTBOX_DEGER'].touched" class="mat-text-warn">Please select.</small>

ngOnInit() {
    this.form = this.fb.group({
        ... some other fields
        SELECTBOX_VALUE: [null, Validators.required]
    });

My filter code for Autocomplate is pretty straight forward:

this.form.get('SELECTBOX_VALUE').valueChanges
        .pipe(
            startWith(''),
            map(option => secenek ? this.doFilter(option) : this.options.slice())
        );

doFilter (name: string) {
    return this.myOptions.filter(option =>
        option.name.toLowerCase().indexOf(name.toLowerCase()) === 0);
}

Answer 1

For those who may need a similar approach. Here's my solution. I've built a custom validation rule according to my needs.

SELECTBOX_VALUE: [
  null,
  Validators.compose([
    Validators.required,
    FormCustomValidators.valueSelected(this.myArray),
  ]),
];

export class FormCustomValidators {
  static valueSelected(myArray: any[]): ValidatorFn {
    return (c: AbstractControl): { [key: string]: boolean } | null => {
      let selectboxValue = c.value;
      let pickedOrNot = myArray.filter(
        (alias) => alias.name === selectboxValue
      );

      if (pickedOrNot.length > 0) {
        // everything's fine. return no error. therefore it's null.
        return null;
      } else {
        //there's no matching selectboxvalue selected. so return match error.
        return { match: true };
      }
    };
  }
}