diff --git a/src/webengine/api/qquickwebengineprofile.cpp b/src/webengine/api/qquickwebengineprofile.cpp index c89e4d5228a8803298931cd6b453ebaf0633fb58..dd405f5d7310d20af0a02f3c94a17c715f541275 100644 --- a/src/webengine/api/qquickwebengineprofile.cpp +++ b/src/webengine/api/qquickwebengineprofile.cpp @@ -69,11 +69,18 @@ ASSERT_ENUMS_MATCH(QQuickWebEngineDownloadItem::MimeHtmlSaveFormat, QtWebEngineC \inmodule QtWebEngine - A web engine profile contains properties and functionality shared by a group of web engine - pages. - - Information about visited links is stored together with persistent cookies and other persistent - data in a storage described by the persistentStoragePath property. + A web engine profile contains settings, scripts, persistent cookie policy, and the list of + visited links shared by all web engine pages that belong to the profile. + + Information about visited links is stored together with persistent cookies + and other persistent data in a storage determined by the storageName + property. Persistent data is stored in a subdirectory determined by the + persistentStoragePath property and the cache in a subdirectory determined by + the cachePath property. The httpCacheType property describes the type of the + cache: \e in-memory or \e on-disk. If only the storageName property is set, + the other values are generated automatically based on it. If you specify + any of the values manually, you should do it before creating any pages that + belong to the profile. Profiles can be used to isolate pages from each other. A typical use case is a dedicated \e {off-the-record profile} for a \e {private browsing} mode. An off-the-record profile forces @@ -278,8 +285,23 @@ void QQuickWebEngineProfilePrivate::userScripts_clear(QQmlListProperty<QQuickWeb \brief Contains settings, scripts, and visited links common to multiple web engine views. WebEngineProfile contains settings, scripts, and the list of visited links shared by all - views that belong to the profile. As such, profiles can be used to isolate views - from each other. A typical use case is a dedicated profile for a 'private browsing' mode. + views that belong to the profile. + + Information about visited links is stored together with persistent cookies + and other persistent data in a storage determined by the storageName + property. Persistent data is stored in a subdirectory determined by the + persistentStoragePath property and the cache in a subdirectory determined by + the cachePath property. The httpCacheType property describes the type of the + cache: \e in-memory or \e on-disk. If only the storageName property is set, + the other values are generated automatically based on it. If you specify + any of the values manually, you should do it before creating any pages that + belong to the profile. + + Profiles can be used to isolate pages from each other. A typical use case is + a dedicated \e {off-the-record profile} for a \e {private browsing} mode. An + off-the-record profile forces cookies, the HTTP cache, and other normally + persistent data to be stored only in memory. The offTheRecord property holds + whether a profile is off-the-record. Each web engine view has an associated profile. Views that do not have a specific profile set share a common default one. diff --git a/src/webenginewidgets/api/qwebengineprofile.cpp b/src/webenginewidgets/api/qwebengineprofile.cpp index 746fe55e8b4c89cfe4eb741e797f5d5902b8d116..1885f20853dffab7ddfeef397af1d72dee9c1156 100644 --- a/src/webenginewidgets/api/qwebengineprofile.cpp +++ b/src/webenginewidgets/api/qwebengineprofile.cpp @@ -77,7 +77,14 @@ using QtWebEngineCore::BrowserContextAdapter; to a common QWebEngineScriptCollection instance. Information about visited links is stored together with persistent cookies and other persistent - data in a storage returned by persistentStoragePath(). The cache can be cleared of links by + data in a storage returned by storageName(). Persistent data is stored in a subdirectory set by + calling setPersistentStoragePath(), and the cache is located in a subdirectory set by calling + setCachePath(). The cache type can be set to \e in-memory or \e on-disk by calling + setHttpCacheType(). If only the storage name is set, the subdirectories are created and named + automatically. If you set any of the values manually, you should do it before creating any + pages that belong to the profile. + + The cache can be cleared of links by calling clearVisitedLinks() or clearAllVisitedLinks(). PersistentCookiesPolicy describes whether session and persistent cookies are saved to and restored from memory or disk.