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localStorage with fallback from http://stackoverflow.com/a/23838252/1262923
var BrowserStorage = (function() {
/**
* Whether the current browser supports local storage as a way of storing data
* @var {Boolean}
*/
var _hasLocalStorageSupport = (function() {
try {
return 'localStorage' in window && window['localStorage'] !== null;
} catch (e) {
return false;
}
})();
/**
* @param {String} name The name of the property to read from this document's cookies
* @return {?String} The specified cookie property's value (or null if it has not been set)
*/
var _readCookie = function(name) {
var nameEQ = name + "=";
var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
for (var i = 0; i < ca.length; i++) {
var c = ca[i];
while (c.charAt(0) == ' ') c = c.substring(1, c.length);
if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length, c.length);
}
return null;
};
/**
* @param {String} name The name of the property to set by writing to a cookie
* @param {String} value The value to use when setting the specified property
* @param {int} [days] The number of days until the storage of this item expires
*/
var _writeCookie = function(name, value, days) {
var expiration = (function() {
if (days) {
var date = new Date();
date.setTime(date.getTime() + (days*24*60*60*1000));
return "; expires=" + date.toGMTString();
}
else {
return "";
}
})();
document.cookie = name + "=" + value + expiration + "; path=/";
};
return {
/**
* @param {String} name The name of the property to set
* @param {String} value The value to use when setting the specified property
* @param {int} [days] The number of days until the storage of this item expires (if storage of the provided item must fallback to using cookies)
*/
set: function(name, value, days) {
_hasLocalStorageSupport
? localStorage.setItem(name, value)
: _writeCookie(name, value, days);
},
/**
* @param {String} name The name of the value to retrieve
* @return {?String} The value of the
*/
get: function(name) {
return _hasLocalStorageSupport
? localStorage.getItem(name)
: _readCookie(name);
},
/**
* @param {String} name The name of the value to delete/remove from storage
*/
remove: function(name) {
_hasLocalStorageSupport
? localStorage.removeItem(name)
: this.set(name, "", -1);
}
};
})();
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