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WindowSharedStorage

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The WindowSharedStorage interface of the Shared Storage API represents the shared storage for a particular origin within a standard browsing context.

WindowSharedStorage is accessed via sharedStorage.

Instance properties

  • worklet Deprecated
    • : Contains the SharedStorageWorklet instance representing the shared storage worklet for the current origin. SharedStorageWorklet includes the addModule() method, which is used to add a module to the shared storage worklet.

Instance methods

WindowSharedStorage inherits properties from its parent interface, SharedStorage.

Examples

// Randomly assigns a user to a group 0 or 1
function getExperimentGroup() {
  return Math.round(Math.random());
}

async function injectContent() {
  // Add the module to the shared storage worklet
  await window.sharedStorage.worklet.addModule("ab-testing-worklet.js");

  // Assign user to a random group (0 or 1) and store it in shared storage
  window.sharedStorage.set("ab-testing-group", getExperimentGroup(), {
    ignoreIfPresent: true,
  });

  // Run the URL selection operation
  const fencedFrameConfig = await window.sharedStorage.selectURL(
    "ab-testing",
    [
      { url: `https://your-server.example/content/default-content.html` },
      { url: `https://your-server.example/content/experiment-content-a.html` },
    ],
    {
      resolveToConfig: true,
    },
  );

  // Render the chosen URL into a fenced frame
  document.getElementById("content-slot").config = fencedFrameConfig;
}

injectContent();

See the Shared Storage API landing page for a walkthrough of this example and links to other examples.

Specifications

SpecificationsStandards references are available on the canonical MDN page.

Browser compatibility

Browser compatibilityCompatibility data is available on the canonical MDN page.

See also