Status update 11th March 2012

Looks like storage objects will be making an appearance in a Warzone near you sometime in the future 

See: http://forums.wz2100.net/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=8756&start=150#p97205 for details.

Overview

I'm becoming increasingly convinced that storing JS state in .ini files is the wrong direction to be taking.

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• Values can be any data type supported by JSON (in a browser, they'd have to be strings). Supported object types are currentlyJSON currently has native support for:
  • Object
  • Array
  • String
  • Boolean
  • Number
  • Null
• I've added toJSON() and fromJSON() methods.

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After sessionStorage.js is included in the JS environment, the contents of the playerX_sessionStorage.js file are loaded and then pumped in via sessionStorage.fromJSON(data) (where 'data' is the string representation of the contents of the playerX_sessionStorage.js file).

That's it.

Future development:

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localStorage

If the sessionStorage idea proposed above gets accepted, then an obvious next-step would be to implement localStorage.

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Inside the localStorage.setItem() method, it would do the normal stuff - in other words update its own internal data object. But then it would also call setLocalStorage(me,key,JSON.stringify(val))

When setLocalStorage is called, the C++ code would do something like this:

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