1421808 - Document treatment of different types in storageArea.set

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: Add-ons, enhancement)

Description

[Will Bamberg [:wbamberg]]

This is split from bug 1416331, comment 1.

Comment 1

[Will Bamberg [:wbamberg]]

I've tried testing all the types mentioned in https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/storage/StorageArea/set#Parameters. I've attached the extension I used to do this.

Here's what I am seeing:

Type          |      Firefox                     |    Chrome
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
String          restores                            restores
Date            restores as a string                restores as an empty object
Set             restores as an empty object         restores as an empty object
RegExp          restores as an empty object         restores as an empty object 
Array           restores                            restores
ArrayBuffer     restores as an empty object         error in set()
TypedArray      restores as an array-like object    error in set()
Function        error in set()                      restores as an empty object

Does that all look like what you would expect? Note that some of this is contrary to the Chrome docs, too.

Comment 2

[Will Bamberg [:wbamberg]]

Attachment: storage-serial-1.0.xpi

Comment 3

[Andrew Swan [:aswan]]

That seems right but redirect to Kris who wrote the actual code in question I believe

Comment 4

[Will Bamberg [:wbamberg]]

I've updated the page: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/storage/StorageArea/set.