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@@ -36,8 +36,9 @@ The function can throw the following exceptions:
- Throws [`parse_error.109`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionparse_error109) if an array index in a key is not a
number; example: `"array index 'one' is not a number"`
- Throws [`out_of_range.404`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionout_of_range404) if a level becomes an array
(because one of its keys is `0`) and another key at that level cannot be an array index; example:
`"unresolved reference token 'x'"`
(because one of its keys is `0`) and another key at that level begins with a digit but is not a valid array index
(such as `1a`), or is `-`; example:
`"unresolved reference token '-'"`
## Complexity
@@ -63,13 +64,57 @@ Apart from these two cases, for a JSON value `j`, the following is always true:
The following code shows how a flattened JSON object is unflattened into the original nested JSON object.
```cpp
--8<-- "examples/unflatten.cpp"
#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
using json = nlohmann::json;
int main()
{
// create JSON value
json j_flattened =
{
{"/answer/everything", 42},
{"/happy", true},
{"/list/0", 1},
{"/list/1", 0},
{"/list/2", 2},
{"/name", "Niels"},
{"/nothing", nullptr},
{"/object/currency", "USD"},
{"/object/value", 42.99},
{"/pi", 3.141}
};
// call unflatten()
std::cout << std::setw(4) << j_flattened.unflatten() << '\n';
}
```
Output:
```json
--8<-- "examples/unflatten.output"
{
"answer": {
"everything": 42
},
"happy": true,
"list": [
1,
0,
2
],
"name": "Niels",
"nothing": null,
"object": {
"currency": "USD",
"value": 42.99
},
"pi": 3.141
}
```
## See also
@@ -80,3 +125,6 @@ Apart from these two cases, for a JSON value `j`, the following is always true:
- Added in version 2.0.0.
- Made the array/object decision independent of the object's iteration order in version 3.13.0.
- Throws [`parse_error.109`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionparse_error109) instead of
[`out_of_range.404`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionout_of_range404) for a one-character array index that is
not a digit (e.g., `/x`) in version 3.13.0, as it already did for longer ones.