Ionic-framework: ionCancel trigger ionClear for ion-searchbar

[LtotheWT]

Ionic version: (check one with "x")
[ ] 1.x
[ x] 2.1.13

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[ ] feature request
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Current behavior:

I am currently using ion-searchbar, when ionCancel function is called it will trigger the ionClear function.
when i then ionCancel function is called it will also call ionClear which makes it input become empty.

Expected behavior:

Suppose when i click on the ionCancel it will only not show the list.
Steps to reproduce:

Related code:

(ionCancel)="onCancel()"
 onCancel() { 
        // Not Show the list
        this.showList = false;
    }
(ionClear)="onClear($event)"
onClear(ev) { 
        // Show the results
        ev.target.value = '';
    }

Other information:

Ionic info: (run ionic info from a terminal/cmd prompt and paste output below):

insert the output from ionic info here

[mhartington]

This is the intended behavior. Cancel generally means you're going to stop searching and should clear the searchbar.

A good example of this is opening ios's settings app, typing in search, then tapping cancel. Not only does it end the search, but clears the input.

[msio]

Hi,
This behaviour is iOS behaviour but it makes no sense at all. There is already clear button there for this purpose and google maps app for iOS uses this cancel button for closing keyboard without clearing the input searchbar. User can see still the value in the input searchbar but keyboard is already closed. That is very usual behaviour if one implements google maps with autocomplete feature. I'm right implementing such a use case. Could you please consider this? thanks
meanwhile it can be fixed by commenting this.clearInput(ev); in source in npm_modules under components/searchbar/searchbar.js

Searchbar.prototype.cancelSearchbar = function (ev) {
        this.ionCancel.emit(ev);
        // this.clearInput(ev);
        this._shouldBlur = true;
        this._isActive = false;
    };  

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