I’ve written up a blog post exploring the new API. You can just capture a local variable in the closure and you’re good to go.
var inputTextField: UITextField?
let passwordPrompt = UIAlertController(title: "Enter Password", message: "You have selected to enter your password.", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.Alert)
passwordPrompt.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: nil))
passwordPrompt.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: { (action) -> Void in
// Now do whatever you want with inputTextField (remember to unwrap the optional)
}))
passwordPrompt.addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler({(textField: UITextField!) in
textField.placeholder = "Password"
textField.secureTextEntry = true
inputTextField = textField
})
presentViewController(passwordPrompt, animated: true, completion: nil)
That way you avoid having an unnecessary property on your view controller.