Dropdown setting default item with description

[rlightner]

I have a dropdown that retrieves items from an API, but I want to have it created with default options (name, value, description).

How does one set that via 'set exactly' or is this done via a different API?

[ivangomes]

Can you be more specific? Or show a cases test.

[rlightner]

<div class="ui dropdown">
  <div class="text"></div>
  <i class="dropdown icon"></i>
</div>

$('.ui.dropdown').dropdown({
        allowAdditions: false,
        placeholder: 'Select Item',
        clearable: true,
        apiSettings: {
          cache: false,
          throttle: 250,
          url: 'https://example.com?q={query}',
          onResponse: function (res) {
            var response = {
              results: [],
            };
            $.each(res, function (idx, item) {
              response.results.push({
                name: item.name,
                value: item.id,
                description: item.descr,
                descriptionVertical: true,
              });
            });
            return response;
          },
        },
      })
      .dropdown('set exactly', {name:'initial name', value: 'initial_value', description: 'Initial Description'});

I want to add the initial name item to the dropdown since its the original value, but allow a user to search for one via API if they choose to do so.