JQuery Auto-Complete on Complex Javascript Object/JSON

includes

  <link rel="stylesheet" href="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css">
  <script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
  <script src="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/jquery-ui.js"></script>

jquery-autocomplete.html

<input id="name" type="text"/>
<input id="email" type="text"/>

jquery-autocomplete.js

$(function() {
    var users = [{
        "email": "[email protected]",
        "name": "marie"
    }, {
        "email": "[email protected]",
        "name": "miss"
    }];

    function handleAutocomplete(term) {
        // use 'term' for custom filtering etc.
        var options = $.grep(users, function(e) {
            return e.name.startsWith(term);
        });
        return options;
    }
    $("#name").autocomplete({
        minLength: 0,
        source: function(request, response) {
            var name = request.term;
            var data = handleAutocomplete(name); /* get answers from somewhere.. */
            response(data);
        },
        focus: function(event, ui) {
            $("#name").val(ui.item.name);
            return false;
        },

        select: function(event, ui) {
            $("#name").val(ui.item.name);
            $("#email").html(ui.item.email);
            return false;
        }
    }).autocomplete("instance")._renderItem = function(ul, item) {
        return $("<li>")
            .append("<a>" + item.name + "<br>" + item.email + "</a>")
            .appendTo(ul);
    };
});

Stackoverflow link : http://stackoverflow.com/a/38036700/1540689