json_view: exceptions name the path and the bytes of the value

With JSON_DIAGNOSTICS and JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS, the exceptions of views
now carry the same context as those of basic_json: "(/path) " and
"(bytes a-b) " in front of the message, in basic_json's format (with
JSON_DIAGNOSTICS, no context for the root). Before, views threw without any
context, and since get<T>() reads the view directly, conversions had lost
even the relative path they used to get through materialize().

The throw helpers of detail/view/errors.hpp take an error_site (document
and node; empty without the two macros). Only on the error path, the path is
found by descending from the root (pruned by subtree extent before the first
edit, a full walk through edited sequences after), and the bytes as
materialize() sets them (position_source; a container's end by following the
chain of last elements and scanning to the closing brackets). from_json() for
views and the strict enum macro put the same context in front through
exception_prefix(). Iterators keep their container only under the two
macros, for key(). Without the macros, the accessors compile to the same
code as before.

Tests compare every value's exceptions with those of the parsed or
materialized basic_json value, including edited documents; the checks that
were disabled under the two macros run again.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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- For every other `T`: whatever [`materialize().get<T>()`](../basic_json/get.md) throws — typically `type_error.302`,
or whatever a user-provided `from_json()` throws.
None of the exceptions thrown directly by this function or by a `from_json()` that reads the view (the first four
bullets above) carry a
[`JSON_DIAGNOSTICS`](../macros/json_diagnostics.md) path: the view has no `BasicJsonType` value to point at. An
exception thrown while converting through `materialize()` (the last bullet) is different: it is thrown by a real
`BasicJsonType` value, so it **does** carry a `JSON_DIAGNOSTICS` path if `BasicJsonType` was built with it enabled.
That path is relative to the root of the view's subtree, because `materialize()` builds only the subtree (with parent
pointers): it is empty if the failing value is the subtree's root itself, and it never is the path within the whole
document.
The exceptions thrown directly by this function or by a `from_json()` that reads the view (the first four bullets
above) carry the context of those of `BasicJsonType`: with [`JSON_DIAGNOSTICS`](../macros/json_diagnostics.md) the
JSON Pointer path of the value within the document, and with
[`JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS`](../macros/json_diagnostic_positions.md) its bytes in the source text. An exception
thrown while converting through `materialize()` (the last bullet) is thrown by the materialized `BasicJsonType` value
instead: its path is relative to the root of the view's subtree, because `materialize()` builds only the subtree
(with parent pointers), so it is empty if the failing value is the subtree's root itself.
## Complexity