preference element

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Description

The <preference> element allows for preferences to be declared by the developer. Using this, a key-value pair is stored in a persistent manner and is initiated the first time the extension is started. Preferences can then be accessed at runtime via the widget.preferences object in the background process or in any page from within the extension (see the markup example below).

The following attributes are associated with it.

• name: Denotes a name for this preference
• value: Denotes a value for this preference
• readonly: Indicates whether it can be overwritten at runtime or not; it is a boolean, with valid values as "true" or "false"

Example

An example of this could be the following:

<widget xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets">
  <preference name     = "api-key"
    value    = "abcd123456"
    readonly = "true"/>
</widget>

Then, in the background process:

//
// background.js
//

//gets the value the preference in the config.xml
var apiKey = widget.preferences["api-key"];

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