Question

Are there any frameworks or API to store data client side conveniently, by transferring from database, during user’s session ? I’m looking for any framework so that I dont have to, perhaps, care about whether or not the browser support LocalStorage or other storage technologies & I can seamlessly store data!?

For my personal use case, I need to be able to pass an unfiltered list of recommended items for user & remove the ones he has added to his lists. I want to store the user’s lists client side and then filter the unadded items.

Answer 1

Have a look at YUI’s StorageUtility. The YUI StorageUtility is a nice abstraction

The Storage Utility provides a mechanism for storing significant amounts of textual data, client-side, whether or not your browsers
supports the proposed HTML 5 Storage specification.

Each instance of the Storage Utility leverages one of three storage
engines in order to store data:

HTML 5: If the client browser supports HTML 5, then this engine will
wrap the browser’s native storage capability (document.localStorage
and document.sessionStorage).
Google Gears: Google Gears is a browser
extension that users can install on their machine. One of its features
is a SQLite database; the Storage Utility uses this database for
client-side storage when using the Gears engine.
SWF: YUI provides a
SWFStore Utility that normalizes access to the Flash Shared Object.
This is the Storage Utility’s fallback engine, which will work on most
browsers due to the significant penetration of the Adobe Flash plugin.