1173701 - Improve storage inspectors parsing of storage values (uriencoded etc.)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1260382

(DevTools :: Storage Inspector, defect)

Description

[Mike Ratcliffe [:miker] [:mratcliffe] [:mikeratcliffe]]

The storage inspector currently fails to deal with URI encoded strings (I discovered this when using JSFiddle as a test case).

Cookie values are ASCII only in Firefox and URIEncoding them is a common way to deal with international character sets so we should handle this case.

Handling of key value pairs should also be improved... this:
"24b38||t=142|et=730|cs=002212"

Is displayed as an array structure:
id: Array
  0: 24b38||t
  1: 142|et
  2: 730|cs
  3: 002212
  length: 4

This: "{a:1, b:2, c:3}" produces this:
value: Object
  {a: "1"
  b: "2"
  c: "3}"

We should do a better job of parsing these common patterns.

The relevant code is found in browser/devtools/storage/ui.js::parseItemValue()

Comment 1

[Mike Ratcliffe [:miker] [:mratcliffe] [:mikeratcliffe]]

This was fixed as part of bug 1260382