chriswebb / lockablestorage

Concurrency and locking for HTML5 localStorage.

LockableStorage

Concurrency and locking for HTML5 localStorage.

Install

bower install git://github.com/chriswebb/LockableStorage.git

Use

LockableStorage.lock('key', function () {
    // exclusive access to localStorage['key']
});

LockableStorage.get('key', function(value) { 
    // gets localStorage['key']
    // uses value as a paramter to the callback function
    // callback does not hold the lock.
});

LockableStorage.set('key', 'value', function() {
// sets localStorage['key'] to 'value' then runs callback
// callback does not hold the lock.
    // can be removed if no-callback necessary.
});

LockableStorage.remove('key', function(value) { 
// value of key is removed then runs callback
    // callback does not hold the lock.
});

Author

This code was written by Benjamin Dumke-von der Ehe and described in this post: http://balpha.de/2012/03/javascript-concurrency-and-locking-the-html5-localstorage/.

Bower and README from https://github.com/elad/LockableStorage

And updates with helper functions and jshint warnings from Chris Webb