UXP (IDJS) LocalStorage usage

[DanielMedia]

Hi everyone,

I'm tinkering around with the new UXP javascript in InDesign and would like to store a value in LocalStorage. But I can't seem to get a value saved to storage.

Here is my code:

main();

function main() {
    console.log('Main function entered.');

    window.localStorage.setItem('myKey', 'myValue');

    console.log(window.localStorage.getItem('myKey'));
}

Code is in /Users/<my-username>/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/Version 18.0/de_DE/Scripts/Scripts Panel/my-scripts/localStorage.idjs

I'm tailing the log files in Terminal from /Users/<my-username>/Library/Caches/UXPLogs to see the console.log() output. The first log entry shows Main function entered. but the second one is null.

Am I missing something?

My InDesign version is 18.0 on OSX 12.6.1

[erinferinferinf]

Hi Daniel,

Something is buggy about the forum script tag "UXP Scripting" at the moment, but I did put this in front of the InDesign team. You might want to also search https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/ for local storage...

[erinferinferinf · Accepted solution]

@amandahuang says:

scripts don’t have access to window.localStorage

UXP plugins for InDesign are expected next year.

[amanda_h]

As Erin said, scripts don't have access to persistent storage options including `window.localStorage`. This is because each script has its own execution context that is destroyed when the script is finished executing. Once we roll out UXP plugins for InDesign, that will be available.