Pre-fill in autocomplete contact reference fields includes deleted contacts

We are using an autocomplete contact reference field to assign some access to views for our group leaders. When I start to write a surname in the box it pulls up both current and deleted names making it very difficult to know who to choose if we have a current/deleted record for the same person.

I have tested this on the demo and the same thing happens - it pulls up deleted people as well as current ones as pre-fill suggestions. Dave Greenberg and Eileen agreed this should not be the case and Eileen suggested the following:

The contact_get api should default to only getting is_deleted = 0.

I think it's likely this is fixed in the api (& might need backporting)

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/*

• Adjust Metadata for Get action
  *
• @param array $params array or parameters determined by getfields
  */
  function _civicrm_api3_contact_get_spec(&$params) { $params['contact_is_deleted']['api.default'] = 0; }