Add WebLocalStorageFormat, WebIndexedIDBFormat to public API

Fixes: QTBUG-115587
Change-Id: Icb5dc795ad60608effbf08200592899d1a3d7fd1
Reviewed-by: Morten Johan Sørvig <morten.sorvig@qt.io>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/corelib/io/qsettings.cpp b/src/corelib/io/qsettings.cpp
index 3bfac21261..20dc590483 100644
--- a/src/corelib/io/qsettings.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/io/qsettings.cpp
@@ -2376,6 +2376,16 @@ void QConfFileSettingsPrivate::ensureSectionParsed(QConfFile *confFile,
                             lose the distinction between numeric data and the
                             strings used to encode them, so values written as
                             numbers shall be read back as QString.
+    \value WebLocalStorageFormat
+                            WASM only: Store the settings in window.localStorage for the current
+                            origin. If cookies are not allowed, this falls back to the INI format.
+                            This provides up to 5MiB storage per origin, but access to it is
+                            synchronous and JSPI is not required.
+    \value WebIndexedDBFormat
+                            WASM only: Store the settings in an Indexed DB for the current
+                            origin. If cookies are not allowed, this falls back to the INI format.
+                            This requires JSPI, but provides more storage than
+                            WebLocalStorageFormat.
 
     \value InvalidFormat    Special value returned by registerFormat().
     \omitvalue CustomFormat1