HTML5 Web Application Development By Example Beginner's guide

Time for action – loading the tasklist

We have the tasklist saved. But that doesn't do us much good if we can't load it. So let's add a new private method called loadTaskList():

function loadTaskList()
{
    var tasks = appStorage.getObject("taskList");
    if (tasks)
    {
        for (var i in tasks)
        {
            addTaskElement(tasks[i]);
        }
    }
}

This method calls appStorage.getValue() passing in the key for our tasklist. Then it checks to make sure we got something back. If so, it iterates over all of the tasks in the array calling the addTaskElement() method for each one.

The only thing left to do is add a call to loadTaskList() from the start() method, so the list is loaded when the application starts:

this.start = function()
{
    // Code not shown…
    loadTaskList(); setStatus("ready"); ...