Autocomplete functionality on JSPUI advanced search form

/**
 * Functions used on advanced search page
 */
function monkeyPatchAutocomplete() {
    // don't really need this, but in case I did, I could store it and chain
    var oldFn = $.ui.autocomplete.prototype._renderItem;

    $.ui.autocomplete.prototype._renderItem = function( ul, item){
    	var term = this.term.split(' ').join('|');
    	var re = new RegExp("(" + term + ")", "gi") ;
    	var t = item.label.replace(re,"<b>$1</b>");
    	return $( "<li></li>" )
    	.data( "item.autocomplete", item )
    	.append( "<a>" + t + "</a>" )
    	.appendTo( ul );
    };

}

function replaceSAXExpression(baseUrl , limit ,fieldName, fieldText){
	var field = $('#'+ fieldName).val();
	$('#' + fieldText).val('');
	$('#' + fieldText).autocomplete({
		source: function( request, response ) {
			$.ajax({
				url: baseUrl +"/terms?terms=true&terms.limit=" + limit + "&terms.sort=count&terms.regex.flag=case_insensitive&terms.fl=" + field + "&terms.regex=.*" + request.term + ".*&wt=json",
				dataType: "json",
				data: {
					style: "full",
					maxRows: 5,
					name_startsWith: request.term,
				},
				success: function( data ) {
 					response( $.map( data.terms[field], function( item ) {
						if(!$.isNumeric(item)){
							return{
    							label: item,
    							value: "\"" + item + "\"",
         					}
         				}else {
         					return null;
         				}
         			}
				));}
			});
		},
		minLength: 1,
		select: function( event, ui ) {

		},
		open: function() {
			$( this ).removeClass( "ui-corner-all" ).addClass( "ui-corner-top" );
		},
		close: function() {
			$( this ).removeClass( "ui-corner-top" ).addClass( "ui-corner-all" );
		}
	});
}

package org.dspace.app.webui.servlet;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.net.URLDecoder;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.Map;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.standard.StandardAnalyzer;
import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.ParseException;
import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser;
import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.TokenMgrError;
import org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanQuery;
import org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher;
import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
import org.apache.lucene.search.ScoreDoc;
import org.apache.lucene.search.Sort;
import org.apache.lucene.search.TermQuery;
import org.apache.lucene.search.TopDocs;
import org.apache.lucene.search.TopScoreDocCollector;
import org.apache.lucene.store.Directory;
import org.apache.lucene.store.FSDirectory;
import org.apache.lucene.util.Version;
import org.dspace.app.webui.util.JSPManager;
import org.dspace.authorize.AuthorizeException;
import org.dspace.content.Bitstream;
import org.dspace.content.Bundle;
import org.dspace.content.DCValue;
import org.dspace.content.Item;
import org.dspace.core.ConfigurationManager;
import org.dspace.core.Constants;
import org.dspace.core.Context;
import org.dspace.core.LogManager;
import org.dspace.handle.HandleManager;
import org.dspace.search.CustomQueryParser;
import org.dspace.search.DSIndexer;
import org.dspace.search.DSQuery;
import org.dspace.usage.UsageEvent;
import org.dspace.utils.DSpace;

public class SearchJSONServlet extends DSpaceServlet
{
    /** log4j category */
    private static Logger log = Logger.getLogger(SearchJSONServlet.class);

    /* Create an DSpaceServlet Servlet */
   public SearchJSONServlet()
    {
        super();
    }

    protected void doDSPost(Context context, HttpServletRequest request,
            HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException,
            SQLException, AuthorizeException
    {
        doDSGet(context, request, response);
    }

    protected void doDSGet(Context context, HttpServletRequest request,
            HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException,
            SQLException, AuthorizeException
    {
        String pathString = request.getPathInfo();
        String queryString = request.getQueryString();

        //Build localhost solr query path
        String scheme = request.getScheme();             // http
        String serverName = "127.0.0.1";                 // Solr can only be accessed from localhost
        int serverPort = request.getServerPort();        // 80
        String parentContextPath = "";                   // Change this value if dspace webpages are placed in a different folder other than html service root folder
        String contextPath = "/solr";
        String servletPath = "/searchJSPUI";

        StringBuffer url =  new StringBuffer();
        url.append(scheme).append("://").append(serverName);
        if (serverPort != 80)
            url.append(":").append(serverPort);
        url.append(parentContextPath).append(contextPath).append(servletPath);
        url.append(pathString + "?");
        url.append(queryString);
        String solrPath = url.toString();

        //Get response from solr server and send it as servlet reponse
        StringBuilder jsonResponse = new StringBuilder();
        URL sorlURL = new URL(solrPath);
        URLConnection solrConnection = sorlURL.openConnection();
        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(solrConnection.getInputStream()));
        String inputLine;
        while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
            jsonResponse.append(inputLine + "\n");
        in.close();
        StreamResult result = new StreamResult(response.getOutputStream());
        response.setHeader("Content-Length", String.valueOf(jsonResponse.length()));
        response.getOutputStream().flush();

        byte[] buf = jsonResponse.toString().getBytes();
        response.setContentLength(buf.length);
        ServletOutputStream servletOut = response.getOutputStream();
        servletOut.write(buf);
    }
}

<servlet>
  	<servlet-name>searchJSON</servlet-name>
  	<servlet-class>org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.SearchJSONServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>searchJSON</servlet-name>
  	<url-pattern>/searchJSON/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>