Empty() not working correctly in some cases

[Noamyoungerm]

I don't really have a MWE, but in my case, values in the textbox that have not been added to a tag are pushed to a tag on form submit. This correctly adds the tags to the submitted form, but afterwards calling .tagsmanager('empty') fails to empty the programatically pushed values.

Workaround, but not a proper solution to the cause of the issue:

empty : function() {
        var $self = $(this), tlis = $self.data("tlis"), tlid = $self.data("tlid"), tagId;

         while (tlid.length > 0) {
            .... //Clear out the visible and physical tags
        }

        $self.data('tlis', []) //Here we actually enforce the method contract and empty all the tags
        privateMethods.refreshHiddenTagList.call($self); //Not entirely sure this line is needed

        $self.trigger('tm:emptied', null);
        privateMethods.showOrHide.call($self);
},