Swift UIAlertController Getting Text Field Text

Question

I need to get the text from the text fields in my alert view when the Input button is pressed.

func inputMsg() {

    var points = \"\"
    var outOf = \"\"
         


        

Answer 1

The UIAlertController has a textFields property. That's its text fields. Any of your handlers can examine it and thus can get the text from any of the text fields.

Answer 2

As requested here is an implementation solution.

alertController.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Submit", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default,handler: {
            (alert: UIAlertAction!) in
            if let textField = alertController.textFields?.first as? UITextField{
                println(textField.text)
            }
        }))

As stated above, the alertController has a property called textFields. You can conditionally unwrap that property to safely access a text field if you have added one. In this case since there is only one text field I just did the unwrap using the first property. Hope it helps.