Access properties of a MapView marker or circle

I’m rendering my map with markers and circles beautifully. My app use case however has me needing to retrieve values from the objects at various stages in my code.

For example:

<Circle
key={ping.ping_time}
ref={ref => { this.circles[device_index + “_” + (parseInt(index)+1)] = ref;}}
center={{ latitude : ping.latitude , longitude : ping.longitude }}
radius={ping.radius}
fillColor={radius_overlay[device_index]}
strokeColor={‘white’}
strokeWidth={0.3}

Using the reference I’ve created, I need to obtain the radius of this circle. What is the syntax to get that value by using the reference?

I expected something like this to work:

this.circles[reference_index].radius