How to get password field value in react's material-ui

Question

I am not able to access the value of <TextField />, if i don't write <input type='password'/> then it works fine, but for this i am getting a TypeError, 'this.refs[this._getRef(...)].getInputNode is not a function'.

 dialogAction(tag,e){

  console.log(this.refs.password);
  console.log(this.refs.password.getValue());
  this.refs.dialog.dismiss();
}

render(){
let self = this;

let row = this.row,col = this.column;
let standardActions = [
  { text: 'Cancel',onTouchTap: this.dialogAction.bind(this,ProductConstants.CANCEL)},
  { text: 'Submit',onTouchTap: this.dialogAction.bind(this,ProductConstants.SUBMIT)}
];

return (
  <div className="ProductRepository">

    <Dialog ref = 'dialog'
      title="Dialog With Standard Actions"
      actions={standardActions}
      actionFocus="submit"
      modal={true}>
      <TextField ref='password'
        hintText="Password"
        floatingLabelText="Password">
        <input type="password" />
      </TextField>
    </Dialog>
    </div> 
    );}

   }

image below is the console output of the above code.

Answer 1

For material 1.0 and react 16.1.1

Use inputRef

  <TextField autoFocus={true} inputRef={el => this.fv = el} 
        placeholder="Required" size="30"></TextField >

To read the value use below line

console.log(this.fv.value);

Answer 2

This solved my issue:

<TextField ref='password'
    hintText="Password"
    floatingLabelText="Password"
    type="password">
</TextField>

After that

 this.refs.password.getValue()

gives the desired output.

For React v >= 15.6

<TextField ref={x => this.password = x}
    hintText="Password"
    floatingLabelText="Password"
    type="password">
</TextField>

in inputHandler function

this.password.value

Answer 3

Assign ref="password" to the input itself instead of the TextField. Currently you are executing getValue() on some abstract (probably some container) tag (TextField), not on the input itself.

Here's how it's done.

Answer 4

You can get the input value like this :

this.refs.password.input.value;