Documentation on submitting and resetting a form

[tschaub]

It looks like input.getValue and input.clearValue were removed in e7d36f6 but they are still documented as methods for working with Input components.

I'd be happy to help update the documentation if someone can give a good example of submitting and resetting forms that use Input elements. I was previously using getValue on submit and clearValue on reset.

[geekingfrog]

I believe these methods should be put back, or the project need to do a major version bump since this clearly break the API and will make some code backward incompatible.

@tschaub in the meantime you can use this.refs.myInput.setState({value: ''}) to clear the input and similarly use the state to get the value.

[hai-cea]

@tschaub @geekingfrog - Yeh I agree with you both. I think these methods should be put back.

[dcsan]

old issue, but can someone give an example how to use these methods?

It seems like maybe the input component no longer exists, but perhaps these methods work for textfields?

related
#2615

[oliviertassinari]

Imperative method are going to be removed from this repository. Use the property API instead.

[sandorvasas]

too bad. makes creating forms a pain. why do you drop basic html, html5 features in favor of something more complex? stepping backwards. apis, libs should ease and simplify development. also input types url, phone, email (and others) are built-in in html5, but with material-ui we're back to manually validating them? what the heck..

[oliviertassinari]

Those helpers have been replaced on the next branch by the inputRef callback property so users can directly access the input dom element.