Any plans to use forwardRef with injectIntl?

[esellin]

Currently, If I use injectIntl(), I need to call getWrappedInstance() to access the wrapped instance.

It would be much easier if I could just assign a ref, and that ref would transparently be forwarded to the wrapped instance, so I ended up writing the HOC below.

Any plans to support this in a future version of react-intl, or have I lost the plot?

function withIntl(Component) {
  class Wrapper extends React.Component {
    render() {
      const {innerRef, ...props} = this.props;
      return (
        <Component
          ref={innerRef}
          {...props} />
      );
    }
  };
  const IntlWrapper = injectIntl(Wrapper);
  return forwardRef((props, ref) => (
    <IntlWrapper {...props} innerRef={ref} />
  ));
};

[marcesengel]

This would drop support for older react versions...

[antoinerousseau]

that's what semver is for

[HauptmannEck]

I would like to revive this issue, as I just ran into this in my project. Trying to add react-intl currently doesn't allow you to code as you would expect if you use with the new ref api. Especially if you have Typescript mixed into the fray.