Automatic address completion and fill-in plugin functionality

Previous to 8.0, PolicyCenter used geographic zone definitions that you loaded into PolicyCenter to provide address autofill and autocompletion functionality. In 8.0, PolicyCenter provides a new plugin, IAddressAutocompletePlugin, that you use to interface to external services for autocomplete data.

In 8.0, to illustrate a common use, you can provide a plugin implementation that autofills an address using data that comes from custom code or from an external service. As you enter a postal code value into the address field, the plugin implementation can detect the postal code value and autofill other address fields based on the entered value.

The default Java implementation class for the plugin, DefaultAddressAutocompletePlugin, duplicates the pre-8.0 behavior.

The AddressAutocompleteUtil utility class from earlier releases now calls static methods on the Address AutoComplete plugin, so you do not need to modify your existing code.

Note: Guidewire has configured the new (in 8.0) GlobalAddressInputSet PCF files to use the new autocompletion plugin functionality. If you have pre-8.0 PCF files that you use for address entry, then Guidewire strongly recommends that you convert these files to the use of the new GlobalAddressInputSet PCF files. See also Changes to address configuration in 8.0.