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>
This commit is contained in:
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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@@ -54,8 +54,9 @@ using parser_callback_t =
/*!
@brief syntax analysis
This class implements an iterative parser that keeps the open containers on
an explicit stack and reports what it reads as SAX events.
This class implements a parser for JSON text. Nested arrays and objects are tracked with an explicit
stack instead of recursion, so deeply nested input does not exhaust the call stack, and what is read
is reported as SAX events.
*/
template<typename BasicJsonType, typename InputAdapterType>
class parser
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@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ class json_pointer
}
/// @brief return a string representation of the JSON pointer
/// @sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/json_pointer/operator_string/
/// @sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/json_pointer/operator_string_t/
JSON_HEDLEY_DEPRECATED_FOR(3.11.0, to_string())
operator string_t() const
{
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ class json_pointer
#ifndef JSON_NO_IO
/// @brief write string representation of the JSON pointer to stream
/// @sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/operator_ltlt/
/// @sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/operator_ltlt/
friend std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& o, const json_pointer& ptr)
{
o << ptr.to_string();
@@ -1099,7 +1099,8 @@ class json_pointer
friend bool operator!=(const StringType& lhs,
const json_pointer<RefStringTypeRhs>& rhs);
/// @brief compares two JSON pointer for less-than
/// @brief compares two JSON pointers for less-than
/// @sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/json_pointer/operator_spaceship/
template<typename RefStringTypeLhs, typename RefStringTypeRhs>
// NOLINTNEXTLINE(readability-redundant-declaration)
friend bool operator<(const json_pointer<RefStringTypeLhs>& lhs,
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@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ void templated_json_throw(ExceptionType exception)
@brief macro to briefly define a mapping between an enum and JSON with exception
on invalid input
@def NLOHMANN_JSON_SERIALIZE_ENUM_STRICT
@since version 3.12.0
@since version 3.13.0
*/
#define NLOHMANN_JSON_SERIALIZE_ENUM_STRICT(ENUM_TYPE, ...) \
template<typename BasicJsonType> \
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@@ -5128,7 +5128,7 @@ class basic_json // NOLINT(cppcoreguidelines-special-member-functions,hicpp-spec
/// @{
#ifndef JSON_NO_IO
/// @brief serialize to stream
/// @sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/operator_ltlt/
/// @sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/operator_ltlt/
friend std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& o, const basic_json& j)
{
// read width member and use it as the indentation parameter if nonzero
@@ -5147,7 +5147,7 @@ class basic_json // NOLINT(cppcoreguidelines-special-member-functions,hicpp-spec
}
/// @brief serialize to stream
/// @sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/operator_ltlt/
/// @sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/operator_ltlt/
/// @deprecated This function is deprecated since 3.0.0 and will be removed in
/// version 4.0.0 of the library. Please use
/// operator<<(std::ostream&, const basic_json&) instead; that is,
@@ -5316,7 +5316,7 @@ class basic_json // NOLINT(cppcoreguidelines-special-member-functions,hicpp-spec
#endif
#ifndef JSON_NO_IO
/// @brief deserialize from stream
/// @sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/operator_gtgt/
/// @sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/operator_gtgt/
/// @deprecated This stream operator is deprecated since 3.0.0 and will be removed in
/// version 4.0.0 of the library. Please use
/// operator>>(std::istream&, basic_json&) instead; that is,
@@ -5328,7 +5328,7 @@ class basic_json // NOLINT(cppcoreguidelines-special-member-functions,hicpp-spec
}
/// @brief deserialize from stream
/// @sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/operator_gtgt/
/// @sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/operator_gtgt/
friend std::istream& operator>>(std::istream& i, basic_json& j)
{
// parse into a temporary so that j is left unchanged if parsing fails