Select2 provides some shortcuts that make it easy to access local data stored in an array instead of having to write a query function mentioned in the example above.
Example below inlines the data by specifying an array in the data element. Items in such an array must have id and text keys.
If your data does not have a text key, an alternative key can be specified as a string:
or as a function:
data can also itself be a function that returns a results object: