User:Quarl/wikistate.js
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// [[User:Quarl/wikistate.js]] - utilities to keep track of session state
// Session state persists THROUGHOUT THIS SESSION, on THIS PAGE ONLY
// * Currently works with back/forward/refresh, but not with navigating anew.
// Usage:
// wikistate.set('foo', 123);
// alert("foo = " + wikistate.get('foo'));
// quarl 2006-02-05 initial version
// <pre><nowiki>
document.write('<form style="display: none;" id="wikiState_sessionform">'+
'<textarea id="wikiState_data"></textarea></form>');
wikistate = new Object();
wikistate._load = function() {
wikistate._dataNode = document.getElementById('wikiState_data');
wikistate._dataString = wikistate._dataNode.value || '';
wikistate._data = wikistate._deserialize(wikistate._dataString) || {};
}
wikistate.save = function() {
wikistate._dataString = wikistate._serialize(wikistate._data);
wikistate._dataNode.value = wikistate._dataString;
}
wikistate.get = function(varname) {
return wikistate._data[varname];
}
wikistate.set = function(varname, value, nosave) {
// if (!(value instanceof String)) {
// alert("wikistate error: must be a string (error 5dc01aeb-2fc1-44ca-a0bd-359ec9210f46)");
// return;
// }
wikistate._data[varname] = value;
if (!nosave) wikistate.save();
}
wikistate._serialize = function(dict) {
return dict.toSource();
// var r = '';
// for (var v in dict) {
// var value = dict[r];
// if (!(value instanceof String)) continue;
// r += value+':'+string_quote_escape(value);
// }
}
wikistate._deserialize = function(s) {
// since only we can write to the form data, should be safe to evaluate
// it.
return eval(s);
}
$(wikistate._load);
// </nowiki></pre>