Correct the parser comments on recursion and skip_to_state_evaluation

The class documentation called the parser a recursive descent parser,
but sax_parse_internal() is a loop that keeps the open containers on an
explicit stack. The comment at the end of an array and of an object
said the flag is set to false while the code below it sets it to true.
Describe what the code does instead.

Comments only; behavior, the public API and the ABI are unchanged.

Part of #5712

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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Niels Lohmann
2026-09-30 09:45:36 +02:00
parent c620c01063
commit 50d8e71b9f
2 changed files with 16 additions and 10 deletions
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@@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ using parser_callback_t =
/*!
@brief syntax analysis
This class implements a recursive descent parser.
This class implements an iterative parser that keeps the open containers on
an explicit stack and reports what it reads as SAX events.
*/
template<typename BasicJsonType, typename InputAdapterType>
class parser
@@ -439,8 +440,9 @@ class parser
// We are done with this array. Before we can parse a
// new value, we need to evaluate the new state first.
// By setting skip_to_state_evaluation to false, we
// are effectively jumping to the beginning of this if.
// By setting skip_to_state_evaluation to true, the next
// iteration skips parsing a value and evaluates the
// enclosing state directly.
JSON_ASSERT(!states.empty());
states.pop_back();
skip_to_state_evaluation = true;
@@ -500,8 +502,9 @@ class parser
// We are done with this object. Before we can parse a
// new value, we need to evaluate the new state first.
// By setting skip_to_state_evaluation to false, we
// are effectively jumping to the beginning of this if.
// By setting skip_to_state_evaluation to true, the next
// iteration skips parsing a value and evaluates the
// enclosing state directly.
JSON_ASSERT(!states.empty());
states.pop_back();
skip_to_state_evaluation = true;
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@@ -17132,7 +17132,8 @@ using parser_callback_t =
/*!
@brief syntax analysis
This class implements a recursive descent parser.
This class implements an iterative parser that keeps the open containers on
an explicit stack and reports what it reads as SAX events.
*/
template<typename BasicJsonType, typename InputAdapterType>
class parser
@@ -17517,8 +17518,9 @@ class parser
// We are done with this array. Before we can parse a
// new value, we need to evaluate the new state first.
// By setting skip_to_state_evaluation to false, we
// are effectively jumping to the beginning of this if.
// By setting skip_to_state_evaluation to true, the next
// iteration skips parsing a value and evaluates the
// enclosing state directly.
JSON_ASSERT(!states.empty());
states.pop_back();
skip_to_state_evaluation = true;
@@ -17578,8 +17580,9 @@ class parser
// We are done with this object. Before we can parse a
// new value, we need to evaluate the new state first.
// By setting skip_to_state_evaluation to false, we
// are effectively jumping to the beginning of this if.
// By setting skip_to_state_evaluation to true, the next
// iteration skips parsing a value and evaluates the
// enclosing state directly.
JSON_ASSERT(!states.empty());
states.pop_back();
skip_to_state_evaluation = true;