VS Code openHAB Extension!

kubawolanin · July 29, 2018, 7:43pm

Dang, it looks we’re using deprecated vscode.previewHtml now

github.com/Microsoft/vscode

Option to enable localStorage in WebView panels

opened 01:10AM - 19 Jun 18 UTC

closed 03:18PM - 24 Aug 18 UTC

jdgarcia

feature-request webview *out-of-scope

I am currently using the `vscode.previewHtml` command to display a web app in VS… Code (via iframe) which uses `localStorage` to store persisting state, and I am currently trying to convert it to use the new Webview API, in order to take advantage of the new `retainContextWhenHidden` option. I noticed however that while accessing `localStorage` works fine when using `vscode.previewHtml`, it is disabled in panels that use the Webview API. I saw that a persistence API is currently being worked on (https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/49022), but in order to even use that, I would have to wrap all my `localStorage` gets/sets in async functions that check to see if `localStorage` is accessible, and if it isn't, use message passing between the iframe and the webview in order to use `getState`/`setState` inside the webview. That would be doable but it's definitely not ideal. [This comment](https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/48464#issuecomment-384105131) seems to imply that it is disabled intentionally but is something that can potentially be enabled.

I will work on a fix this week.

For a workaround you can set:

"openhab.paperInBrowser": true,

but looks like the BasicUI preview is broken too.