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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

We need a mechanism to save and restore the current session of the browser/webapp container.
For the browser, each open tab should be saved, whereas for the webapp container there’s only one webview to handle.

A naive solution is to persist the URL of each open tab, and upon
restore instantiate a webview and set its url property. However this
won’t restore the corresponding navigation history, nor the current
scroll offset or form data.

To implement this properly, we need to add an API in oxide that will
allow reading the current state of a webview as an opaque blob, and
writing the initial state at construction time. The API would look like
this:

    property string initialState (writable during construction only)
    function getCurrentState()

(see the full discussion at
https://lists.launchpad.net/oxide/msg00037.html).

** Affects: oxide
     Importance: High
     Assignee: Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: webbrowser-app
     Importance: High
     Assignee: Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
         Status: Triaged

** Also affects: oxide
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: oxide
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: oxide
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Olivier Tilloy (osomon)

** Changed in: oxide
   Importance: Undecided => High

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1353143

Title:
  Save/restore a webview’s state

Status in Oxide Webview:
  Confirmed
Status in Web Browser App:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  We need a mechanism to save and restore the current session of the browser/webapp container.
  For the browser, each open tab should be saved, whereas for the webapp container there’s only one webview to handle.

  A naive solution is to persist the URL of each open tab, and upon
  restore instantiate a webview and set its url property. However this
  won’t restore the corresponding navigation history, nor the current
  scroll offset or form data.

  To implement this properly, we need to add an API in oxide that will
  allow reading the current state of a webview as an opaque blob, and
  writing the initial state at construction time. The API would look
  like this:

      property string initialState (writable during construction only)
      function getCurrentState()

  (see the full discussion at
  https://lists.launchpad.net/oxide/msg00037.html).

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