Review and extend the documentation, and check it in CI (#5638)

* Review and extend the documentation, and check it in CI

A review of all documentation pages found factual errors, dead links,
missing cross-references, and gaps in examples. This fixes them and adds
checks so the same problems are caught automatically.

Fixes:
- wrong signatures and version histories (operator!= C++20 member,
  binary() subtype type, get<PointerType>(), JSON_NO_THREAD_LOCAL, ...)
- stale descriptions (number parsing since #5283, UBJSON table, SAX
  example that no longer compiled, tsl::ordered_map advice)
- dead internal and external links; repology.org badges (the domain is
  suspended) replaced by badges that query the registries directly
- deprecation notes link the migration guide; the guide itself fixed

Additions:
- "See also" sections, cross-references, 25 runnable examples, 12
  Mermaid diagrams, new API pages for json_pointer::operator<=> and
  byte_container_with_subtype::operator==/!=
- landing page, guides for untrusted input and performance
- "unreleased" badge after versions newer than the latest release

Checks:
- strict documentation build (broken links/anchors fail it); CI and
  the publish workflow fetch the full history the build needs
- weekly external link check, Mermaid syntax check in CI
- check_structure.py: example titles, heading levels, alt texts,
  header links, docset index coverage; its unused-example check works
  again
- all examples produce the same output on every platform

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

* Keep the customer links that could not be fixed

A dead link on the customers page is still the evidence of where the
use of the library was documented. Keep the original URLs of the entries
without a working replacement (Marne, Cisco Webex Desk Camera, Philips
Hue, CyberArk) and exclude exactly these URLs from the link check.

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

* Correct the duplicate-key recipe's claim about SAX positions

The SAX interface's key() receives no position either; only parse_error()
does. Also note that the recipe does not report the path to the repeated
key (see discussion #5085).

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

* Say the library is available as a single header and mention json_fwd.hpp

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

* Correct documentation errors found while hunting for bugs

- patch/patch_inplace: list the JSON pointer errors parse_error.106-109
  and out_of_range.402/404, and quote the actual parse_error.105 message.
- unflatten: list parse_error.106/107/108 and out_of_range.404.
- to_bson: list out_of_range.415 (binary subtype above 255) and note
  that 412 and 415 are new in 3.13.0.
- to_string: state that string_t must be convertible to std::string, also
  in the StringType requirements table.
- JSON Lines: a `while (input >> j)` loop also throws after the last value
  for concatenated JSON values; show a loop that works for both.
- BON8: a string gets 0xFF only if nothing follows it in the message; a
  string at the end of an array or object is ended by 0xFE.
- custom_string_type.hpp: add operator+=(char), which the "Always
  required" list asks for (json_pointer::to_string, flatten, unflatten,
  and diff did not compile), and an ADL int_to_string for diff and items.

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

* Cache the release headers with functools.lru_cache

Codacy (Pylint) flagged the mutable default argument that header() used
as its cache. functools.lru_cache keeps the same memoization without it.
The script's output is unchanged.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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Niels Lohmann
2026-10-02 11:32:15 +02:00
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parent 48ff79647f
commit 63c10a51fc
276 changed files with 5318 additions and 624 deletions
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@@ -85,12 +85,14 @@ nav:
- features/modules.md
- 'nlohmann Namespace': features/namespace.md
- features/object_order.md
- features/performance.md
- Parsing:
- features/parsing/index.md
- features/parsing/json_lines.md
- features/parsing/parse_exceptions.md
- features/parsing/parser_callbacks.md
- features/parsing/sax_interface.md
- features/parsing/untrusted_input.md
- features/assertions.md
- features/serialization.md
- features/enum_conversion.md
@@ -233,6 +235,8 @@ nav:
- '(constructor)': api/byte_container_with_subtype/byte_container_with_subtype.md
- 'clear_subtype': api/byte_container_with_subtype/clear_subtype.md
- 'has_subtype': api/byte_container_with_subtype/has_subtype.md
- 'operator==': api/byte_container_with_subtype/operator_eq.md
- 'operator!=': api/byte_container_with_subtype/operator_ne.md
- 'set_subtype': api/byte_container_with_subtype/set_subtype.md
- 'subtype': api/byte_container_with_subtype/subtype.md
- adl_serializer:
@@ -249,6 +253,7 @@ nav:
- 'operator string_t': api/json_pointer/operator_string_t.md
- 'operator==': api/json_pointer/operator_eq.md
- 'operator!=': api/json_pointer/operator_ne.md
- 'operator<=>': api/json_pointer/operator_spaceship.md
- 'operator/': api/json_pointer/operator_slash.md
- 'operator/=': api/json_pointer/operator_slasheq.md
- 'parent_pointer': api/json_pointer/parent_pointer.md
@@ -288,7 +293,7 @@ nav:
- 'JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS': api/macros/json_diagnostic_positions.md
- 'JSON_DISABLE_ENUM_SERIALIZATION': api/macros/json_disable_enum_serialization.md
- 'JSON_DISABLE_TUPLE_REFERENCE_CONVERSION': api/macros/json_disable_tuple_reference_conversion.md
- 'JSON_HAS_CPP_11, JSON_HAS_CPP_14, JSON_HAS_CPP_17, JSON_HAS_CPP_20': api/macros/json_has_cpp_11.md
- 'JSON_HAS_CPP_11, JSON_HAS_CPP_14, JSON_HAS_CPP_17, JSON_HAS_CPP_20, JSON_HAS_CPP_23, JSON_HAS_CPP_26': api/macros/json_has_cpp_11.md
- 'JSON_HAS_EXPERIMENTAL_FILESYSTEM, JSON_HAS_FILESYSTEM': api/macros/json_has_filesystem.md
- 'JSON_HAS_RANGES': api/macros/json_has_ranges.md
- 'JSON_HAS_STATIC_RTTI': api/macros/json_has_static_rtti.md
@@ -380,8 +385,21 @@ markdown_extensions:
auto_append:
- ../includes/glossary.md
# report broken links, anchors, and nav entries as warnings, so that `mkdocs build --strict` (make build) fails
validation:
nav:
omitted_files: warn
not_found: warn
absolute_links: warn
links:
not_found: warn
anchors: warn
absolute_links: warn
unrecognized_links: warn
hooks:
- hooks/copy_markdown_source.py
- hooks/unreleased_versions.py
plugins:
- search:
@@ -389,7 +407,8 @@ plugins:
lang: en
- minify:
minify_html: true
- git-revision-date-localized
- git-revision-date-localized:
strict: false # log "has no git logs" for uncommitted pages as info, not as a warning
- redirects:
redirect_maps:
'api/basic_json/operator_gtgt.md': api/operator_gtgt.md
@@ -400,9 +419,25 @@ plugins:
'home/code_of_conduct.md': community/code_of_conduct.md
- htmlproofer: # see https://github.com/manuzhang/mkdocs-htmlproofer-plugin
enabled: !ENV [ENABLED_HTMLPROOFER, False]
raise_error_after_finish: true # log every broken link, then fail
skip_downloads: true # check headers only (customers.md links large PDFs)
raise_error_excludes: # integer status codes, fnmatch patterns
403: ['*'] # bot protection against the plugin's "Bot <uuid>" user agent
429: ['*'] # rate limiting (hundreds of github.com URLs)
502: ['*']
503: ['*']
504: ['*'] # timeouts are reported as 504
-1: # connection errors
- 'https://repology.org/*' # repology.org is suspended since 2026-09
- 'http://2ak5ape.257.cz/' # customers.md: kept although unreachable
401: ['https://fossies.org/*'] # answers the plugin's user agent with 401, browsers and curl with 200
404:
- 'https://gitlab.b-data.ch/*' # answers the plugin's user agent with 404, browsers with 200
# customers.md: kept although dead
- 'https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/about/doing_business/open_source/docs/CiscoWebexDeskCamera-23-1622100417.pdf'
- 'https://docs.cyberark.com/Downloads/Legal/Privileged%20Session%20Manager%20for%20SSH%20Third-Party%20Notices.pdf'
500: ['https://marne.io/licenses'] # customers.md: kept although dead
ignore_urls:
- http://nlohmann.github.io/json/*
- https://nlohmann.github.io/json/*
- mailto:*
- privacy:
# repology.org refuses requests from GitHub Actions runners, which made