When you create a widget you’re extending the WP_Widget class:
class Foo_Widget extends WP_Widget {
The actual saving of the values in the database is handled by the parent class, in the update_callback() method.
So all your widget needs to do is tell it the new values, which you do by defining the update() method.
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