Send full name to backend?

[cmer]

Is there a way to capture the "full name" of a person and sending it to my backend for search?

For example, if I type "@john Doe", only "John" is sent to the backend when I do a realtime AJAX name search. This has 2 side effects:

• the full name is not highlighted properly in the dropdown
• I cannot filter the results accordingly. This is problematic since I have a few thousand users. I want to reduce the size of the dropdown as much as possible.

I made a short screencast to illustrate the problem: http://db.tt/5Sky8XVT

I'm not sure if this is a bug, a mis-configuration or simply something that was not implemented. Thanks!

For the record, this is my onDataRequest code (in Coffeescript):

onDataRequest: (mode, query, callback) ->
  $.getJSON "/#{window.communitySlug}/memberships.json?q=" + encodeURIComponent(query), (responseData) ->
    responseData = _.filter(responseData, (item) ->
      item.name.toLowerCase().indexOf(query.toLowerCase()) > -1
    )
    callback.call this, responseData

[cmer]

Another example of this issue is that if I start typing the first name, then part of the last name and hit Enter, the part of the last name I typed stays there after the mention.

Again, short screencast here: http://db.tt/vYNsWOdY

[AlainPilon]

+1

[SteelBRS]

Hmm, I guess the implementation of this would be to send from the triggerChar to the caret location.
Consider editing this text:
'@john Doe| is a slob'
Checking the caret location is a must, since else it would send until EOL