Add BON8 support (#2998)

* Add BON8 support

Add to_bon8/from_bon8 and input_format_t::bon8 for BON8, a binary format
that uses the byte values that cannot begin a UTF-8 character as type
markers, so strings need no length prefix. It is the most compact of the
supported binary formats on the benchmark files.

The reader is non-recursive like the other binary readers. A string ends
at the first byte that cannot continue it, so the reader hands the one or
two bytes it reads past a string back to the value that follows. The
writer produces the canonical representation of the specification, except
for NFC normalization; its output is identical to that of the reference
implementation (HikoGUI) on all files of the test data.

The round-trip tests need the .bon8 files of json_test_data 3.2.0.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Address review comments

- Reuse detail::validate_one_utf8 to check strings in to_bon8; the error
  now names the first byte of the invalid sequence.
- Document that to_bon8 leaves bytes in the output adapter on an
  exception, and that string_open is only an output of write_bon8_marker.
- Explain why the pushback buffer of the BON8 reader cannot overflow.

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* Select the BON8 float prefix by type

get_bon8_float_prefix only depends on the type of its argument, so make
the type a template parameter instead of passing an unused value.

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* Rename a test variable that Flawfinder mistakes for read()

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* Fix the BON8 CI failures

- compare the float in write_bon8_float with number_float_t constants,
  so GCC does not warn about a float-to-double conversion
- mark check_bon8_utf8's context as used when exceptions are disabled
- choose the compact float prefix in a helper rather than with nested
  conditional operators (clang-tidy)
- use auto for the cast in the BON8 integer reader (clang-tidy)
- write the int32 minimum test values as long long literals (MSVC C4146)

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* Amalgamate

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* Read BON8 strings in bulk from contiguous input

- copy the valid UTF-8 of a string in one step when the input is
  contiguous (twitter.json is read in 1.68 instead of 2.52 ms,
  jeopardy.json in 196 instead of 297 ms, close to CBOR and MessagePack)
- share the new valid_utf8_prefix() with the writer's UTF-8 check, which
  now skips ASCII 8 bytes at a time
- let the fuzzer check that contiguous and stream input give the same
  value or error, and test both paths in the unit tests
- clarify that a second 0xFF after a string is an empty string

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* Link the BON8 functions from the other binary format pages

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* Name the bulk scan flag after the input, not BON8

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* Read BSON keys in bulk from contiguous input

BSON keys (and array indices) are C-style strings, which were read byte
by byte. For contiguous input they are now read up to their \x00-byte in
one step, using the same bulk_scan flag as BON8 strings: twitter.json is
read in 1.46 instead of 2.01 ms, citm_catalog.json in 2.93 instead of
3.33 ms, jeopardy.json in 182 instead of 207 ms. canada.json, whose keys
are almost all one-digit array indices, takes 2 % longer.

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* Fix the BON8 CI failures of the bulk-read tests

- skip the contiguous-versus-stream tests of BON8 strings and BSON keys
  when exceptions are disabled: they catch the parse errors of invalid
  input, and without exceptions the library aborts instead
- use static_cast for the int64 test value (google-readability-casting)

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* Move the explicit basic_json instantiation into its own test file

Linking test-regression3_cpp20 with clang and MinGW failed with
"relocation truncated to fit: IMAGE_REL_AMD64_REL32 against `.rdata'",
as test-regression2 did before #5511. The explicit instantiation of
basic_json<> for #4825 compiles every member function, including the
BON8 reader and writer, into that object, and it was already close to
the limit (2,226,104 bytes on develop, 2,234,960 with BON8; clang -O1,
C++20).

Give the instantiation a file of its own: unit-regression3 is now
1,594,736 bytes and unit-explicit_instantiation 1,095,064. The new file
mentions JSON_HAS_CPP_17 and JSON_HAS_CPP_20 so it keeps being built
for the C++17 standard the regression was about.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Convert the bytes of the BON8 test strings explicitly

The str() helper constructed a std::string from a byte range, which
converts each unsigned char implicitly; -fsanitize=integer reports that
for bytes of 0x80 and above (ci_test_clang_sanitizer).

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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Niels Lohmann
2026-09-27 16:56:21 +02:00
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commit 1e101ecac1
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@@ -274,7 +274,8 @@ enum class binary_format
ubjson_optimized,
bjdata,
bjdata_optimized,
bson
bson,
bon8
};
static std::vector<std::uint8_t> to_binary(const json& j, const binary_format format)
@@ -293,6 +294,8 @@ static std::vector<std::uint8_t> to_binary(const json& j, const binary_format fo
return json::to_bjdata(j);
case binary_format::bjdata_optimized:
return json::to_bjdata(j, true, true);
case binary_format::bon8:
return json::to_bon8(j);
case binary_format::bson:
default:
return json::to_bson(j);
@@ -313,6 +316,8 @@ static json from_binary(const std::vector<std::uint8_t>& bytes, const binary_for
case binary_format::bjdata:
case binary_format::bjdata_optimized:
return json::from_bjdata(bytes);
case binary_format::bon8:
return json::from_bon8(bytes);
case binary_format::bson:
default:
return json::from_bson(bytes);
@@ -333,6 +338,8 @@ static json from_binary(std::FILE* file, const binary_format format)
case binary_format::bjdata:
case binary_format::bjdata_optimized:
return json::from_bjdata(file);
case binary_format::bon8:
return json::from_bon8(file);
case binary_format::bson:
default:
return json::from_bson(file);
@@ -407,6 +414,10 @@ BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryBuffer, bjdata / canada, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativ
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryBuffer, bjdata / twitter, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejson-benchmark/twitter.json", binary_format::bjdata);
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryBuffer, bjdata_optimized / canada, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejson-benchmark/canada.json", binary_format::bjdata_optimized);
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryBuffer, bjdata_optimized / twitter, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejson-benchmark/twitter.json", binary_format::bjdata_optimized);
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryBuffer, bon8 / jeopardy, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/jeopardy/jeopardy.json", binary_format::bon8);
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryBuffer, bon8 / canada, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejson-benchmark/canada.json", binary_format::bon8);
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryBuffer, bon8 / citm_catalog, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejson-benchmark/citm_catalog.json", binary_format::bon8);
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryBuffer, bon8 / twitter, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejson-benchmark/twitter.json", binary_format::bon8);
// BSON requires an object at the top level, so the array-rooted test files
// (jeopardy and the regression files) cannot be captured here
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryBuffer, bson / canada, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejson-benchmark/canada.json", binary_format::bson);
@@ -450,6 +461,8 @@ BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryFile, cbor / twitter, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejs
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryFile, ubjson / canada, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejson-benchmark/canada.json", binary_format::ubjson);
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryFile, ubjson / twitter, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejson-benchmark/twitter.json", binary_format::ubjson);
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryFile, bjdata / twitter, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejson-benchmark/twitter.json", binary_format::bjdata);
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryFile, bon8 / canada, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejson-benchmark/canada.json", binary_format::bon8);
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryFile, bon8 / twitter, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejson-benchmark/twitter.json", binary_format::bon8);
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryFile, bson / twitter, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejson-benchmark/twitter.json", binary_format::bson);
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@@ -530,18 +543,21 @@ BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, nested / msgpack, make_nested, binary_format:
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, nested / ubjson, make_nested, binary_format::ubjson);
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, nested / bjdata, make_nested, binary_format::bjdata);
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, nested / bson, make_nested, binary_format::bson);
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, nested / bon8, make_nested, binary_format::bon8);
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, containers / cbor, make_containers, binary_format::cbor);
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, containers / msgpack, make_containers, binary_format::msgpack);
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, containers / ubjson, make_containers, binary_format::ubjson);
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, containers / ubjson_optimized, make_containers, binary_format::ubjson_optimized);
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, containers / bjdata, make_containers, binary_format::bjdata);
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, containers / bson, make_containers, binary_format::bson);
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, containers / bon8, make_containers, binary_format::bon8);
// BSON names every array element, so a large array measures key generation
// rather than scalar decoding and is left out here
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, scalars / cbor, make_scalars, binary_format::cbor);
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, scalars / msgpack, make_scalars, binary_format::msgpack);
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, scalars / ubjson, make_scalars, binary_format::ubjson);
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, scalars / bjdata, make_scalars, binary_format::bjdata);
BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, scalars / bon8, make_scalars, binary_format::bon8);
/*!
@brief parse an indefinite-length CBOR string