Below is a tidied up version of Aamir Afridi's response that keeps all its code encapsulated within the local scope.
I've removed references that create a global ret variable and also removed the parsing of stored "true" and "false" strings into boolean values within the BrowserStorage.get() method, which could cause issues if one is trying to in fact store the strings "true" or "false".
Since the local storage API only supports string values, one could still store/retrieve JavaScript variable data along with their appropriate data types by encoding said data into a JSON string, which can then be decoded using a JSON encode/decode library such as https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js
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);
}
};
})();
