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Documentation review (#5257)
* 📝 Fix documentation gaps for 3.13.0 release (todos 138-142) - Todo 138: Add "Known issues" section to modules.md with compiler-specific troubleshooting (GCC redefinition, MSVC symbol export). Add pointer note to quality_assurance.md. - Todo 139: Document CBOR/MessagePack half-precision float encoding for NaN/Infinity (0xF9/0xCA with exact byte sequences). Explain pre-3.13.0 double-precision bug mechanism without issue citations. - Todo 140: Document CBOR negative-integer-overflow rejection (parse_error.112) for magnitudes exceeding int64_t range (already implemented in rev 1). - Todo 141: Update version history in value.md and operator[].md with behavior-change details, removing issue citations per citation policy (prose is self-contained). - Todo 142: Global sed replace of 3.12.x → 3.13.0 placeholder across all 20 documentation files. Revision 2 incorporates feedback to reduce changelog-like issue citations. Only citations that add unique troubleshooting value are retained (#5103 for GCC workaround, #3970 for MSVC symbol export). "Known issues" section follows PR #5252's visual pattern (info admonition with bold-bullet format). Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> * 📝 Document integer type selection, type_name() invalid value, and std::optional get() fix - number_handling.md: clarify that positive/negative integers select unsigned/signed storage based on the leading minus sign (todo 143). - type_name.md: document the new "invalid" return value for corrupted JSON values (todo 145). - get.md: note that get<std::optional<T>>() was unreachable in every configuration prior to 3.13.0 due to an internal macro-guard bug, unrelated to JSON_USE_IMPLICIT_CONVERSIONS's actual effect (todo 144). Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> --------- Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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@@ -66,7 +66,15 @@ see "binary" cells in the table above.
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!!! info "NaN/infinity handling"
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If NaN or Infinity are stored inside a JSON number, they are serialized properly. This behavior differs from the normal JSON serialization which serializes NaN or Infinity to `null`.
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`NaN`, `Infinity`, and `-Infinity` are serialized as a CBOR half-precision float (type 0xF9, 3 bytes total):
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`NaN` as `0xF9 0x7E 0x00`, `Infinity` as `0xF9 0x7C 0x00`, and `-Infinity` as `0xF9 0xFC 0x00`. This behavior
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differs from the normal JSON serialization which serializes NaN or Infinity to `null`.
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!!! note
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Prior to version 3.13.0, NaN and Infinity were instead serialized as a CBOR double-precision float (type 0xFB,
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9 bytes total), because the check used to select a smaller encoding compared magnitudes with NaN, which is
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always `false` and caused the intended half-precision path to be skipped.
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!!! info "Unused CBOR types"
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@@ -160,6 +168,13 @@ The library maps CBOR types to JSON value types as follows:
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- simple values (0xE0..0xF3, 0xF8)
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- undefined (0xF7)
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!!! warning "Negative integer overflow"
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CBOR negative integers (major type 1) are decoded as `-1 - n`. If the encoded magnitude `n` is too large for the
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result to fit into `number_integer_t` (`std::int64_t` by default), parsing fails with a
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[`parse_error.112`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionparse_error112) exception rather than overflowing
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silently.
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!!! warning "Object keys"
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CBOR allows map keys of any type, whereas JSON only allows strings as keys in object values. Therefore, CBOR maps with keys other than UTF-8 strings are rejected.
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@@ -67,8 +67,15 @@ specification:
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!!! info "NaN/infinity handling"
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If NaN or Infinity are stored inside a JSON number, they are serialized properly in contrast to the
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[dump](../../api/basic_json/dump.md) function which serializes NaN or Infinity to `null`.
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`NaN`, `Infinity`, and `-Infinity` are serialized as a MessagePack float 32 (type 0xCA, 5 bytes total),
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regardless of magnitude, in contrast to the [dump](../../api/basic_json/dump.md) function which serializes NaN
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or Infinity to `null`.
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!!! note
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Prior to version 3.13.0, NaN and Infinity were instead serialized as a MessagePack float 64 (type 0xCB, 9 bytes
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total), because the check used to select the smaller float 32 encoding compared magnitudes with NaN, which is
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always `false` and caused the float 32 path to be skipped.
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??? example
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@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ json data = json::parse(f);
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It should be noted that as modules do not export macros, the `nlohmann.json` module will not export any macros.
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## Exported symbols
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Only the following symbols are exported from `nlohmann.json`:
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- `nlohmann::adl_serializer`
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@@ -38,3 +39,21 @@ Only the following symbols are exported from `nlohmann.json`:
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- `nlohmann::to_string`
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- `nlohmann::literals::json_literals::operator""_json`
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- `nlohmann::literals::json_literals::operator""_json_pointer`
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Additionally, the following `nlohmann::detail` symbols are exported, solely to work around an MSVC compilation issue
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([#3970](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/issues/3970)). They are implementation details, not part of the public API,
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and should not be used directly:
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- `nlohmann::detail::json_sax_dom_callback_parser`
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- `nlohmann::detail::unknown_size`
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## Known issues
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C++20 modules support is exercised in CI against current GCC and Clang on Ubuntu, and the default MSVC toolset on Windows Server 2022 — there is no documented minimum compiler version, unlike feature-test-macro-gated features such as [`JSON_HAS_RANGES`](../api/macros/json_has_ranges.md).
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!!! info "Known compiler issues"
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- **GCC** may emit "redefinition" errors when `#include <nlohmann/json.hpp>` appears in a module preamble together with other imports. This is an upstream GCC bug, not yet resolved as of GCC 16. Workarounds: include `nlohmann/json.hpp` before other `#include`s, use `import nlohmann.json;` instead, or upgrade GCC. ([issue #5103](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/issues/5103))
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- **MSVC** could fail with `C2039: 'json_sax_dom_callback_parser' is not a member of ... detail`; fixed by exporting the required internal symbols from `json.cppm` (see [Exported symbols](#exported-symbols) above). ([issue #3970](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/issues/3970))
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If you hit a different module-related build failure, search [existing issues](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/issues?q=is%3Aissue+modules) before filing a new one.
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@@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ In the default [`json`](../../api/json.md) type, numbers are stored as `#!c std:
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number without loss of precision. If this is impossible (e.g., if the number is too large), the number is stored as
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`#!c double`.
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Positive integers are stored as `#!c std::uint64_t`, while negative integers are stored as `#!c std::int64_t`. This
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distinction is determined at parse time: if the JSON number has a leading minus sign, it uses signed integer storage;
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otherwise, it uses unsigned integer storage.
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!!! info "Notes"
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- Numbers with a decimal digit or scientific notation are always stored as `#!c double`.
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