get mentioned Username

[Thomas Smith]

Hey guys, 

Is there a way to get the username of an application User that was mentioned on a ticket. 

def HowCanI = com.atlassian.jira.event.listeners.mention.MentionEventListener.getUsername()

Or this there a way to search via full name to get a user 
userManager.getUserByName("Thomas Smith") -> The username is tsmith

[brbojorque · Accepted solution]

Hi Thomas, if you have access to the comment data. Usually, the username is already there and it is currently formatted as [~username]

All you need to do is parse that to whatever you like.

[Thomas Smith]

Hey Bryan, 

this is what I ended up doing, just filtered out the [~] and I had the username 

[Ilya Turov · Accepted solution]

you are mistaking listener with the event. MentionIssueCommentEvent has getToUsers() method which will return you set of ApplicationUsers:

https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/7.6.4/com/atlassian/jira/event/issue/MentionIssueCommentEvent.html

as for your second question, there's 

UserSearchService.findUsersByFullName(String fullName)

https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/7.6.4/com/atlassian/jira/bc/user/search/UserSearchService.html

[Thomas Smith]

Hey thanks for that, was super helpful!