Preserve options on reload

[sloorush]

I am not sure how you are storing the options, but preserving those options in the browser memory(local storage or cookies) can be an easy quality-of-life enhancement that would benefit the users.

[razetime]

the options are stored in the URL, which is a permalink that restores the options. Adding local storage would mess with any other permalinks, and since this is static, I cannot track tab sessions for restoring data. If you have any ideas how to do this without hurting existing generated URLs, I am all ears.

[sloorush]

@razetime, Ah okay, I guess for sharing the golf URL you "need" to keep those permalinks. Is that correct?

[sloorush]

Shooting from the hip, can you store stuff like options in the permalinks so people can just bookmark them and it opens the same options they set the last time they updated the bookmarks?

[razetime]

i had an idea earlier today: if there are no URL parameters given, then APLgolf will restore the previous session. Does that sound okay?

[sloorush]

Yep, that sounds reasonable to me!

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[razetime]

i've changed the source to preserve options on a non-permalink. do tell me if it breaks, the code is held together with duct tape.

[sloorush]

When I try it with tryAPL it just goes to running mode and does not return a result.

Is this happening to you as well?

[razetime]

pleas explain the steps you performed exactly.

[sloorush]

It just gets stuck on running (is there something on doing incorrectly?)

[sloorush]

this works...

but anything with tryAPL gets stuck on "running"

[razetime]

i am not able to recreate this problem. try sending a permalink.

[sloorush]

APL(Dyalog Unicode), 4 bytes ^SBCS

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Try it on APLgolf!

A full program which ____.

[sloorush]

These might be helpful to debug

Console logs:

Network tab:

[razetime]

the permalink runs correctly. it may have been some problem with the tryapl side. just try a hard refresh with ctrl+F5.

[sloorush]

oh, still doesn't work for me (not even with incognito). I'll check it out in the evening maybe, something to do with network cache. I'll let you know

Edit: maybe this is something with safari?

[razetime]

it might be? I will ask on the apl farm.

[razetime]

So, this is apparently a CORS issue on safari (not sure if it's only Safari) that pops up after ~30 seconds. This is not related to localStorage so please make a new issue.