Repair complete items in binary formats when parse_error() returns true (#3989)

When the SAX parser asks to recover, the binary readers now repair an
item whose end is known and read on after it, as RFC 8949, Section 5.3
describes for CBOR:

- CBOR: tags are ignored, and simple values other than false, true, and
  null become null (RFC 8949, Section 6.1); a negative integer below the
  range of number_integer_t becomes the nearest floating-point number.
- Strings that are not valid UTF-8 get U+FFFD for each ill-formed
  sequence, as in JSON text; so does a UBJSON/BJData char above 0x7F.
- UBJSON/BJData high-precision numbers keep their longest valid
  beginning (via the lexer's recover_token()), or become infinity.
- Members whose key is not a string are skipped (CBOR, MessagePack,
  BON8), like members without a key in JSON text.
- BSON elements of types the library does not read (ObjectId, datetime,
  decimal128, ...) become null; a string without its terminator and a
  document whose size does not match are kept.

Where the end of an item is unknown, reading stops as before, except
that BSON skips to the end of the document, whose size it knows.

The value read before such an error is now completed by the reader from
its container stack, as the JSON parser does, instead of by a proxy SAX
parser, which is removed. Like the parser, binary_reader gets an
AllowRecovery template parameter, so that from_*() compile without the
new code.

Tests: a table of repairs, numbers out of range, errors that stop, and
a sweep over changed and removed bytes of eight encodings that checks
balanced events and that the first error is the one from_*() reports.
All fuzzers now run a recovering checker; the binary ones also check
that it reports an error exactly when from_*() fails.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
This commit is contained in:
Niels Lohmann
2026-09-27 21:40:59 +02:00
parent c8735246d0
commit 437a95cfdb
16 changed files with 2925 additions and 673 deletions
File diff suppressed because it is too large Load Diff
+2 -173
View File
@@ -132,8 +132,8 @@ struct json_sax
@param[in] last_token the last read token
@param[in] ex an exception object describing the error
@return whether to recover from the error: false stops parsing; true
repairs JSON text and continues, or, for the binary formats, stops
after closing the containers read so far
repairs the error and continues, or, if that is not possible,
stops after completing the value read so far
*/
virtual bool parse_error(std::size_t position,
const std::string& last_token,
@@ -1212,176 +1212,5 @@ class json_sax_acceptor
}
};
/*!
@brief SAX proxy that lets the binary readers keep what was read before an error
The binary formats cannot continue after an error: a value's size is given
before its payload, and every byte value is a valid type marker, so there is no
way to find where the next value begins. When the SAX parser's parse_error()
returns true to ask for error recovery, the best the binary readers can offer is
the value read up to the error.
This proxy forwards every event to the SAX parser and records which containers
are open and whether a key still waits for its value. After an error the SAX
parser asked to recover from, @ref close_open_containers then completes the
value with null for a pending key and the missing end events, so the SAX parser
sees balanced events (see #3989).
@tparam BasicJsonType the JSON type
@tparam SAX the SAX parser to forward the events to
*/
template<typename BasicJsonType, typename SAX>
class json_sax_salvager
{
public:
using number_integer_t = typename BasicJsonType::number_integer_t;
using number_unsigned_t = typename BasicJsonType::number_unsigned_t;
using number_float_t = typename BasicJsonType::number_float_t;
using string_t = typename BasicJsonType::string_t;
using binary_t = typename BasicJsonType::binary_t;
explicit json_sax_salvager(SAX* sax_) noexcept
: sax(sax_)
{}
bool null()
{
key_pending = false;
return sax->null();
}
bool boolean(bool val)
{
key_pending = false;
return sax->boolean(val);
}
bool number_integer(number_integer_t val)
{
key_pending = false;
return sax->number_integer(val);
}
bool number_unsigned(number_unsigned_t val)
{
key_pending = false;
return sax->number_unsigned(val);
}
bool number_float(number_float_t val, const string_t& s)
{
key_pending = false;
return sax->number_float(val, s);
}
bool string(string_t& val)
{
key_pending = false;
return sax->string(val);
}
bool binary(binary_t& val)
{
key_pending = false;
return sax->binary(val);
}
bool start_object(std::size_t len)
{
key_pending = false;
if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(!sax->start_object(len)))
{
return false;
}
open_containers.push_back(true);
return true;
}
bool key(string_t& val)
{
key_pending = true;
return sax->key(val);
}
bool end_object()
{
JSON_ASSERT(!open_containers.empty() && open_containers.back());
open_containers.pop_back();
return sax->end_object();
}
bool start_array(std::size_t len)
{
key_pending = false;
if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(!sax->start_array(len)))
{
return false;
}
open_containers.push_back(false);
return true;
}
bool end_array()
{
JSON_ASSERT(!open_containers.empty() && !open_containers.back());
open_containers.pop_back();
return sax->end_array();
}
template<class Exception>
bool parse_error(std::size_t position, const std::string& last_token,
const Exception& ex)
{
recovery_requested = sax->parse_error(position, last_token, ex);
// the binary readers stop after an error anyway
return false;
}
/*!
@brief complete the value read before an error
Does nothing unless the SAX parser's parse_error() returned true. Otherwise
passes null for a key that waits for its value and closes the containers
that are still open, innermost first, until an event returns false.
*/
void close_open_containers()
{
if (!recovery_requested)
{
return;
}
recovery_requested = false;
if (key_pending)
{
key_pending = false;
if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(!sax->null()))
{
return;
}
}
while (!open_containers.empty())
{
const bool is_object = open_containers.back();
open_containers.pop_back();
if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(is_object ? !sax->end_object() : !sax->end_array()))
{
return;
}
}
}
private:
/// the SAX parser the events are forwarded to
SAX* sax = nullptr;
/// the containers that are open, innermost last; true for an object
std::vector<bool> open_containers {}; // NOLINT(readability-redundant-member-init)
/// whether a key was passed whose value has not been passed yet
bool key_pending = false;
/// whether the SAX parser's parse_error() asked to recover from the error
bool recovery_requested = false;
};
} // namespace detail
NLOHMANN_JSON_NAMESPACE_END