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Document json_document and json_view
- API pages for basic_json_document and basic_json_view, one per member, and for the four aliases, each with an example - features/json_view.md: the problem the view solves, ownership and lifetime, what matches basic_json::parse() and what differs, and when to choose json, ordered_json, SAX, or the view - the examples show why one would use the view, not only how: borrowed vs. owned input, reading a few fields and materializing one subtree, reusing a document across many messages - registered in the mkdocs navigation, llms.txt, the docset, the exceptions page (out_of_range.416), architecture.md, the integration page, and the README; the yyjson credit is added to the README and license.md Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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# <small>nlohmann::basic_json_view::</small>materialize
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```cpp
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BasicJsonType materialize() const;
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```
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Builds the `BasicJsonType` value of this subtree: the value [`BasicJsonType::parse()`](../basic_json/parse.md) would
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have produced for the same source text, allocated for the first time by this call.
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## Return value
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The `BasicJsonType` value of this subtree, or a discarded `BasicJsonType` value (`#!cpp BasicJsonType(value_t::discarded)`)
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if the view is [discarded](is_discarded.md).
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## Exception safety
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Strong guarantee: if an exception is thrown, there are no changes to the view or the document it refers to (nothing
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about either is mutated by this function).
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## Exceptions
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May throw `#!cpp std::bad_alloc` (via `BasicJsonType`'s allocator) if constructing the result fails.
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## Complexity
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Linear in the size of the subtree.
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## Notes
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`materialize()` replays the subtree through the same SAX builder [`BasicJsonType::parse()`](../basic_json/parse.md)
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uses internally, so the result matches it exactly -- including, for an object, that a repeated key keeps only its
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last value. The replay is iterative, so it is not limited by the call stack the way a naive recursive conversion
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would be; the JSON nesting depth is limited only by available memory, as for `BasicJsonType::parse()` itself.
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Unlike parsing with [`JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS`](../macros/json_diagnostic_positions.md) enabled, the values
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produced by `materialize()` do not carry source positions: there is no lexer run during the replay to record them.
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Calling `materialize()` on the same view repeatedly builds a new, independent `BasicJsonType` value each time; it
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never caches the result.
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## Examples
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??? example
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The example below skips messages that are not useful -- a discarded value, or an empty array -- using only
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[`is_array()`](is_array.md) and [`empty()`](empty.md), and calls `materialize()` only for the messages that are
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actually used, so no `BasicJsonType` value (and none of its per-element allocations) is ever built for the
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skipped ones.
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```cpp
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--8<-- "examples/basic_json_view__materialize.cpp"
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```
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Output:
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```json
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--8<-- "examples/basic_json_view__materialize.output"
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```
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## See also
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- [root](../basic_json_document/root.md) - the view of a document's root value
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- [`BasicJsonType::parse`](../basic_json/parse.md) - build a `BasicJsonType` value directly from a JSON text
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- [`JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS`](../macros/json_diagnostic_positions.md) - source positions on parsed values (not
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produced by `materialize()`)
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## Version history
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- Added in version 3.13.0.
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