Copy-construct the base class of a deep copy's elements, not assign it

The bounded-descent copy added by #5389 built the elements of a deep copy
(nested past the 128-level bound) by default-constructing them and then
having copy_metadata() assign their base class afterwards. That assignment
is only instantiated for values nested past the bound, but being called
from copy_structured() at all meant it was compiled for every copy, so a
CustomBaseClass that is copy-constructible but not move-assignable (for
example one with a const data member) no longer let its basic_json be
copy-constructed, at any depth.

copy_array_level() and copy_object_level() now build each element with a
private-tag-selected constructor that copy-constructs the base class (and,
under JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS, copies the positions) directly, the same
way the copy constructor already builds elements within the 128-level
bound. Copying a basic_json is therefore back to requiring only a
copy-constructible base class, as documented and as it was before #5389;
copy assignment is unchanged and still requires an assignable one.

Fixes #5674.

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

tests/src/unit-custom-base-class.cpp

@@ -333,3 +333,73 @@ TEST_CASE("JSON Visit Node")
         );
     CHECK(expected.empty());
 }
+
+// A custom base class with a const member: copy-constructible (initializing a
+// const member works fine), but not copy-/move-assignable (assigning one does
+// not). Used to check that copy construction never requires more than that.
+struct const_member_base
+{
+    const int id = 7; // NOLINT(misc-non-private-member-variables-in-classes)
+};
+
+using json_with_const_base = nlohmann::basic_json <
+                             std::map,
+                             std::vector,
+                             std::string,
+                             bool,
+                             std::int64_t,
+                             std::uint64_t,
+                             double,
+                             std::allocator,
+                             nlohmann::adl_serializer,
+                             std::vector<std::uint8_t>,
+                             const_member_base
+                             >;
+
+// build an array nested @a depth levels deep, with the innermost value 1;
+// every level is constructed (never assigned), since const_member_base does
+// not support assignment
+static json_with_const_base make_nested_array(std::size_t depth)
+{
+    if (depth == 0)
+    {
+        return json_with_const_base(1);
+    }
+    return json_with_const_base::array({make_nested_array(depth - 1)});
+}
+
+TEST_CASE("Regression test for issue #5674 - copy construction must not require an assignable base class")
+{
+    SECTION("depth 0")
+    {
+        // as in the original bug report: copy construction only, no assignment
+        const json_with_const_base j = {1, 2};
+        const json_with_const_base copy = j; // NOLINT(performance-unnecessary-copy-initialization)
+
+        CHECK(copy.size() == 2);
+        CHECK(copy.id == 7);
+    }
+
+    SECTION("nested deeper than the copy constructor's descent bound")
+    {
+        // beyond nesting_depth_limit() (128) levels, the copy constructor
+        // copies without the call stack (copy_iteratively / copy_array_level),
+        // which used to assign the base class of every element it created
+        const std::size_t depth = 300;
+
+        const json_with_const_base j = make_nested_array(depth);
+        const json_with_const_base copy = j; // NOLINT(performance-unnecessary-copy-initialization)
+
+        const json_with_const_base* c = &copy;
+        for (std::size_t level = 0; level <= depth; ++level)
+        {
+            CAPTURE(level)
+            REQUIRE(c->id == 7);
+            if (level < depth)
+            {
+                c = &c->at(0);
+            }
+        }
+        CHECK(*c == 1);
+    }
+}