[Bug] Inconsistence in the meta properties fallbacks in widgets

Description

In the input widget, when the defaultText is updated, the bindings all update. However, when we clear out the text in the input widget, the bindings propagate as empty text. This is not consistent in the date picker widget. The defaultDate is always a fallback when the date is cleared from the widget.

There are two solutions here:

• We should make this consistent by making sure that all meta properties behave like they do in the datepicker widget’s defaultDate. (fallback to default values if they exist)
• Or fix this for the date picker widget.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour:

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1. Add an input widget and a datepicker widget. Add defaultText and defaultDate respectively in the property panes
2. Add two text widgets, each binding to the input widget’s text and datepicker’s selectedDate respectively.
3. Try changing the text widget by making it empty and clearing the date from the date picker widget.
4. See error

Important Details

• Release 1.4.9

[somangshu]

In the favor of consistency, we will be going ahead and make changes to the datepicker widget. On clearing the input value, it shouldn’t fall back to the default value.

[hawisizu]

In my opinion it’s the 2nd option the correct one.

The 1st one would be a nightmare: that would mean that if you remove the text from an input, you reset to the value it had before, this is non sense. If you do that it means you do want to clear the value, not reset it.