html5sessionstorage.js

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/**
 * @fileoverview Provides data persistence using HTML5 session storage
 * mechanism. Session storage must be available under window.sessionStorage,
 * see: http://www.w3.org/TR/webstorage/#the-sessionstorage-attribute.
 *
 */

goog.provide('goog.storage.mechanism.HTML5SessionStorage');

goog.require('goog.storage.mechanism.HTML5WebStorage');



/**
 * Provides a storage mechanism that uses HTML5 session storage.
 *
 * @constructor
 * @extends {goog.storage.mechanism.HTML5WebStorage}
 */
goog.storage.mechanism.HTML5SessionStorage = function() {
  var storage = null;
  /** @preserveTry */
  try {
    // May throw an exception in cases where the session storage object is
    // visible but access to it is disabled. For example, accessing the file
    // in local mode in Firefox throws 'Operation is not supported' exception.
    storage = window.sessionStorage || null;
  } catch (e) {}
  goog.storage.mechanism.HTML5SessionStorage.base(this, 'constructor', storage);
};
goog.inherits(goog.storage.mechanism.HTML5SessionStorage,
              goog.storage.mechanism.HTML5WebStorage);