Smartgwt mobile SearchItem - how to clear the text value from java ?

[dorin.ionescu]

com.smartgwt.mobile.client.widgets.form.fields.SearchItem;
(smartgwt-mobile.jar 14 april 2016 05:28)

clearValue() or similar not found (also missing from TextItem at mobile version).
workaround (remove from parent, recreate, attach to parent ... but could add flickering)