Can't add user to namespace due to GitHub username being a common substring

[j00bar]

Bug Report

SUMMARY

I was trying to add a GitHub user as an owner to my namespace whose username is a 4 letter word. There are more than 10 users in Galaxy whose username contains the 4 letter word. When I try to find him in the user picker with a search, despite the search being a perfect match to his username, he does not appear in the list of ten options. I have no way to refine the filter further.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

1. Go to edit a namespace.
2. Enter ares in the search box for Namespace Owners
3. Scroll through the list of 10 results and see that ten other users whose username contain the substring ares appear, but not @ares himself.

EXPECTED RESULTS

I expected the exact match to be the first result among the ten.

ACTUAL RESULTS

[chouseknecht]

What namespace?

[chouseknecht]

The search to https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/v1/users/?or__username__icontains=ares returns 43 results, but we only show 10. Maybe we simply return more than 10 and add an orderby as a simple fix.

[newswangerd]

I think there are a couple of solutions

We could

• add pagination to the widget
• make two queries, one for iexact and another of icontains, and always display the exact match at the top
• increase the number of results that are returned
• just do an iexact lookup

There are pros and cons to each of these. I think the second might be my favorite though

[j00bar]

How about istartswith ordered ascending by username?

Exact match will come first. After that, it will be ordered by alphabetically. So long as you never hit a case where you don't see the exact match, no problems - you can keep typing to drill down.