How to getText on an input in protractor

This is answered in the Protractor FAQ: https://github.com/angular/protractor/blob/master/docs/faq.md#the-result-of-gettext-from-an-input-element-is-always-empty

The result of getText from an input element is always empty

This is a webdriver quirk. and elements always have empty getText values. Instead, try:

element.getAttribute('value')

As for question 2, yes, you should be able to use a fully qualified name for by.binding. I suspect that your template does not actually having an element that is bound to risk.name via {{}} or ng-bind.

below code works for me, for getting text from input

return(this.webelement.getAttribute('value').then(function(text)
    {
        console.log("--------" + text);
}))

getText() function won't work like the way it used to be for webdriver, in order to get it work for protractor you will need to wrap it in a function and return the text something like we did for our protractor framework we have kept it in a common function like -

getText : function(element, callback) {
        element.getText().then (function(text){             
            callback(text);
         });        

    },

By this you can have the text of an element.

Let me know if it is still unclear.

I had this issue I tried Jmr's solution however it didn't work for me. As all input fields have ng-model attributes I could pull the the attribute and evaluate it and get the value.

HTML

<input ng-model="qty" type="number">

Protractor

var qty = element( by.model('qty') );
qty.sendKeys('10');
qty.evaluate(qty.getAttribute('ng-model')) //-> 10