Collecting user objects to send email or any operations on the user mentioned. about smart-area HOT 1 CLOSED

Hey @sallampalli

For the first issue: You can collect them as they are selected obviously, but as you've said, it wouldn't be in sync if the user deletes it. I've made a plunkr demoing that: http://embed.plnkr.co/5eypln4BFYp7wRW3ffLb/

I don't think keeping a tab on that sort of thing should be this directive's objective, since once the object has been autocompleted, the directive no longer knows how long it's supposed to be (the trigger is usually smaller), so that's something you'd want to do with a custom regex or similar.
Specially if you're using that data on the server, you can't trust the client to send you a valid list of mentions.

As to using a User object, absolutely. The directives allows you to attach any extra data to the items, which can be then accessed from the onSelect function. Take a look at the plunkr above, on the console you can see the argument passed to the onSelect function.

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