Create a value before giving it its type (#5585)

* Create a value before giving it its type

Squashed onto develop from:
- Create a value before giving it its type
- Skip the failed-allocation test when exceptions are disabled
- Keep the created pointer rather than an uninitialized json_value
- Skip the vector<bool> failed-allocation check for VS 2015 with iterator debugging
- Test the remaining to_json overloads with a failing allocation
- Skip the to_json allocation-failure section on VS 2015 Debug
- Fix false GCC -Warray-bounds error with JSON_DIAGNOSTICS at -O3 (#5744)

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

* Store the new value with a helper in all to_json constructors

Every external_constructor<>::construct now creates the new value first and
hands it to basic_json::replace_value(), which destroys the old value, stores
the new one before setting its type (as elsewhere in this PR), sets the
parents, and checks the invariant.

The std::vector<bool> and std::valarray overloads use array_t's range
constructor, which the other array overloads already rely on. Range views
keep their loop, as begin() and end() of a view may have different types.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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#include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
using nlohmann::json;
#include <valarray>
#if JSON_HAS_RANGES
#include <ranges>
#endif
namespace
{
// special test case to check if memory is leaked if constructor throws
@@ -671,3 +676,173 @@ TEST_CASE("destructor performs no allocation, only deallocation")
CHECK(counting_allocator_deallocations > deallocations_before);
}
}
// the no-exceptions CI job skips every CHECK_THROWS_AS, which would leave
// next_construct_fails set for the next allocation outside a check
#if !defined(JSON_NOEXCEPTION)
TEST_CASE("a failed allocation leaves the value unchanged")
{
// create JSON type using the throwing allocator
using my_json = nlohmann::basic_json<std::map,
std::vector,
std::string,
bool,
std::int64_t,
std::uint64_t,
double,
my_allocator>;
// Each of these creates a string, array, object, or binary value. The
// value must be created before the type is changed: otherwise, a failed
// creation left a value of the new type without anything behind it (an
// assertion in its destructor, a null pointer everywhere else) or, when
// an old value was destroyed first, with a pointer to that destroyed one.
SECTION("creating a binary value")
{
const std::vector<std::uint8_t> bytes = {1, 2, 3};
my_json _;
next_construct_fails = true;
CHECK_THROWS_AS(_ = my_json::binary(bytes), std::bad_alloc&);
next_construct_fails = true;
CHECK_THROWS_AS(_ = my_json::binary(bytes, 42), std::bad_alloc&);
next_construct_fails = true;
CHECK_THROWS_AS(_ = my_json::binary(std::vector<std::uint8_t>(bytes)), std::bad_alloc&);
next_construct_fails = true;
CHECK_THROWS_AS(_ = my_json::binary(std::vector<std::uint8_t>(bytes), 42), std::bad_alloc&);
next_construct_fails = false;
}
SECTION("turning a null value into an array or object")
{
my_json j;
next_construct_fails = true;
CHECK_THROWS_AS(j[0], std::bad_alloc&);
CHECK(j.is_null());
next_construct_fails = true;
CHECK_THROWS_AS(j["key"], std::bad_alloc&);
CHECK(j.is_null());
#ifdef JSON_HAS_CPP_17
next_construct_fails = true;
CHECK_THROWS_AS(j[std::string_view("key")], std::bad_alloc&);
CHECK(j.is_null());
#endif
next_construct_fails = true;
CHECK_THROWS_AS(j.push_back(my_json(1)), std::bad_alloc&);
CHECK(j.is_null());
const my_json one = 1;
next_construct_fails = true;
CHECK_THROWS_AS(j.push_back(one), std::bad_alloc&);
CHECK(j.is_null());
next_construct_fails = true;
CHECK_THROWS_AS(j.push_back(my_json::object_t::value_type("key", 1)), std::bad_alloc&);
CHECK(j.is_null());
next_construct_fails = true;
CHECK_THROWS_AS(j.emplace_back(1), std::bad_alloc&);
CHECK(j.is_null());
next_construct_fails = true;
CHECK_THROWS_AS(j.emplace("key", 1), std::bad_alloc&);
CHECK(j.is_null());
const my_json object = {{"key", 1}};
next_construct_fails = true;
CHECK_THROWS_AS(j.update(object), std::bad_alloc&);
CHECK(j.is_null());
next_construct_fails = false;
}
// With iterator debugging, VS 2015's containers construct a proxy with the
// allocator in constructors that cannot report its failure, so a failing
// allocator crashes this section there (SIGSEGV with VS 2015 Debug x86).
#if !(defined(_MSC_VER) && _MSC_VER < 1910 && defined(_ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL) && _ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL > 0)
SECTION("converting into an existing value")
{
// to_json replaces the value it is given; the old one must survive a
// failed creation of the new one
my_json j = "old";
next_construct_fails = true;
CHECK_THROWS_AS(nlohmann::to_json(j, std::string("new")), std::bad_alloc&);
CHECK(j == "old");
next_construct_fails = true;
CHECK_THROWS_AS(nlohmann::to_json(j, std::vector<int> {1, 2}), std::bad_alloc&);
CHECK(j == "old");
next_construct_fails = true;
CHECK_THROWS_AS(nlohmann::to_json(j, std::vector<bool> {true, false}), std::bad_alloc&);
CHECK(j == "old");
next_construct_fails = true;
CHECK_THROWS_AS(nlohmann::to_json(j, std::map<std::string, int> {{"a", 1}}), std::bad_alloc&);
CHECK(j == "old");
next_construct_fails = true;
CHECK_THROWS_AS(nlohmann::to_json(j, my_json::binary_t({1, 2})), std::bad_alloc&);
CHECK(j == "old");
// the overloads for lvalues of the value types, for the value types
// themselves, and for the remaining compatible types
const std::string string = "new";
next_construct_fails = true;
CHECK_THROWS_AS(nlohmann::to_json(j, string), std::bad_alloc&);
CHECK(j == "old");
next_construct_fails = true;
CHECK_THROWS_AS(nlohmann::to_json(j, "new"), std::bad_alloc&);
CHECK(j == "old");
// to_json only moves a binary value that it converted from another
// container type, which my_json's std::vector<std::uint8_t> is not
using binary_constructor = nlohmann::detail::external_constructor<nlohmann::detail::value_t::binary>;
next_construct_fails = true;
CHECK_THROWS_AS(binary_constructor::construct(j, my_json::binary_t({1, 2})), std::bad_alloc&);
CHECK(j == "old");
my_json::array_t array = {1, 2};
next_construct_fails = true;
CHECK_THROWS_AS(nlohmann::to_json(j, array), std::bad_alloc&);
CHECK(j == "old");
next_construct_fails = true;
CHECK_THROWS_AS(nlohmann::to_json(j, std::move(array)), std::bad_alloc&);
CHECK(j == "old");
my_json::object_t object = {{"a", 1}};
next_construct_fails = true;
CHECK_THROWS_AS(nlohmann::to_json(j, object), std::bad_alloc&);
CHECK(j == "old");
next_construct_fails = true;
CHECK_THROWS_AS(nlohmann::to_json(j, std::move(object)), std::bad_alloc&);
CHECK(j == "old");
next_construct_fails = true;
CHECK_THROWS_AS(nlohmann::to_json(j, std::valarray<int> {1, 2}), std::bad_alloc&);
CHECK(j == "old");
#if JSON_HAS_RANGES && !defined(__MINGW32__)
const std::vector<int> numbers = {1, 2};
next_construct_fails = true;
CHECK_THROWS_AS(nlohmann::to_json(j, numbers | std::views::filter([](int /*unused*/)
{
return true;
})), std::bad_alloc&);
CHECK(j == "old");
#endif
next_construct_fails = false;
nlohmann::to_json(j, std::vector<int> {1, 2});
CHECK(j == my_json({1, 2}));
}
#endif
}
#endif
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// __ _____ _____ _____
// __| | __| | | | JSON for Modern C++ (supporting code)
// | | |__ | | | | | | version 3.12.0
// |_____|_____|_____|_|___| https://github.com/nlohmann/json
//
// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013-2026 Niels Lohmann <https://nlohmann.me>
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
// Regression test for https://github.com/nlohmann/json/issues/5742: with
// JSON_DIAGNOSTICS, GCC (12 to at least 16) reported a false -Warray-bounds
// error in the inlined set_parents() at -O3. The type of a new string was set
// before the string was allocated, so GCC had to assume that operator new
// could change it again and checked the object branch of set_parents()
// against the string's allocation. Setting the type after creating the value
// avoids this. The warning depends on GCC's inlining decisions, so the
// sections cover two patterns that trigger it on different GCC versions
// (#4819 and #5742).
// On GCC, this file is compiled with -O3 -Werror=array-bounds (see
// tests/CMakeLists.txt), so the test fails to build if the warning returns.
#include "doctest_compatibility.h"
#ifdef JSON_DIAGNOSTICS
#undef JSON_DIAGNOSTICS
#endif
#define JSON_DIAGNOSTICS 1
#include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
using nlohmann::json;
#include <algorithm>
#include <iterator>
#include <utility>
#include <vector>
namespace
{
enum class diag_color
{
red,
green,
blue
};
void to_json(json& j, const diag_color& c)
{
static const std::pair<diag_color, json> m[] = // NOLINT(cppcoreguidelines-avoid-c-arrays,hicpp-avoid-c-arrays,modernize-avoid-c-arrays)
{
{diag_color::red, "r"},
{diag_color::green, "g"},
{diag_color::blue, "b"},
};
const auto* it = std::find_if(std::begin(m), std::end(m), [c](const std::pair<diag_color, json>& p)
{
return p.first == c;
});
j = it->second;
}
} // namespace
TEST_CASE("diagnostics with optimization")
{
SECTION("issue #4819 - object in vector")
{
std::vector<json> jsons{};
jsons.emplace_back(json({{"key", "value"}}));
CHECK(jsons.back()["key"] == "value");
}
SECTION("issue #5742 - string values from a static table")
{
json j = json::array();
j.push_back(diag_color::red);
j.push_back(diag_color::green);
j.push_back(diag_color::blue);
CHECK(j.dump() == R"(["r","g","b"])");
CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(j[1].get<int>(), "[json.exception.type_error.302] (/1) type must be number, but is string", json::type_error);
}
}