jQuery DataTables: Search input with autocomplete using Typeahead and Bootstrap (Server-side processing)

For more information, see https://www.gyrocode.com/articles/jquery-datatables-search-input-with-autocomplete-using-typeahead-and-bootstrap/

by gyrocode

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/v/bs-3.3.7/dt-1.10.15/datatables.min.css">
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/v/bs-3.3.7/dt-1.10.15/datatables.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-3-typeahead/4.0.2/bootstrap3-typeahead.js"></script>
<div class="container">

<h3><a href="https://www.gyrocode.com/articles/jquery-datatables-search-input-with-autocomplete-using-typeahead-and-bootstrap/">jQuery DataTables: Search input with autocomplete using Typeahead and Bootstrap</a> <small>Server-side processing</small></h3>
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<table id="example" class="table" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Name</th>
            <th>Position</th>
            <th>Office</th>
            <th>Age</th>
            <th>Start date</th>
            <th>Salary</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tfoot>
        <tr>
            <th>Name</th>
            <th>Position</th>
            <th>Office</th>
            <th>Age</th>
            <th>Start date</th>
            <th>Salary</th>
        </tr>
    </tfoot>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>Tiger Nixon</td>
            <td>System Architect</td>
            <td>Edinburgh</td>
            <td>61</td>
            <td>2011/04/25</td>
            <td>$320,800</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Garrett Winters</td>
            <td>Accountant</td>
            <td>Tokyo</td>
            <td>63</td>
            <td>2011/07/25</td>
            <td>$170,750</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Ashton Cox</td>
            <td>Junior Technical Author</td>
            <td>San Francisco</td>
            <td>66</td>
            <td>2009/01/12</td>
            <td>$86,000</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Bradley Greer</td>
            <td>Software Engineer</td>
            <td>London</td>
            <td>41</td>
            <td>2012/10/13</td>
            <td>$132,000</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
        ...

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function() {
   var table = $('#example').DataTable({
      'initComplete': function(){
         var api = this.api();

         // Initialize Typeahead plug-in
         $('.dataTables_filter input[type="search"]', api.table().container())
            .typeahead({
               source: function(query, process){
                  $.getJSON('https://api.myjson.com/bins/e66c3', { q: query }, function (data){
                     return process(data);
                  });
               },
               afterSelect: function(value){
                  api.search(value).draw();
               }
            }
         );
      }
   });
});