Fix unflatten and binary dumping for non-default configurations

unflatten() decided between array and object by looking at the first reference
token it happened to see for a node: it started an array only when that token
was 0. With a sorted object type the token 0 always arrives first, so the
result was correct by accident; with an object type whose iteration order is
unspecified, {"/c/2":3,"/c/1":2,"/c/0":1} unflattened to an object with the
keys "0", "1", and "2" instead of an array.

Collect the pointer prefixes that have a reference token 0 among their children
before building the result, and let get_and_create() consult that set. The
outcome is now independent of the iteration order and matches, for every input,
what a sorted object type produced before: a value is restored as an array if
and only if one of its keys is 0. Iterating the flattened object in a different
order would have been simpler, but it would have changed the key order of the
result for insertion-ordered object types.

The serializer, std::hash, and the UBJSON writer converted the elements of a
binary value to an integer implicitly, which does not compile for a BinaryType
whose value type is std::byte, and which made dump() write the bytes of a
signed value type as negative numbers. Convert to std::uint8_t explicitly in
all three places, so every byte type dumps as 0..255. The default
std::vector<std::uint8_t> configuration is unaffected.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018hxZxz8svM54c6ATEvXp5E
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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Niels Lohmann
2026-08-28 17:38:55 +00:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 06feaa8d04
commit 7a37a27a67
11 changed files with 207 additions and 39 deletions
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@@ -465,6 +465,16 @@ TEST_CASE("JSON pointers")
// explicit roundtrip check
CHECK(j.flatten().unflatten() == j);
// an object is only unflattened to an array if one of its keys is the
// reference token 0; this must not depend on which key is seen first
CHECK(json({{"/2", "x"}}).unflatten() == json({{"2", "x"}}));
CHECK(json({{"/10", "y"}, {"/2", "z"}}).unflatten() == json({{"10", "y"}, {"2", "z"}}));
CHECK(json({{"/0", 1}, {"/1", 2}}).unflatten() == json({1, 2}));
CHECK(json({{"/1", 2}, {"/0", 1}}).unflatten() == json({1, 2}));
CHECK(json({{"/0", 1}, {"/2", 3}}).unflatten() == json({1, nullptr, 3}));
CHECK(json({{"/a/1", 2}, {"/a/0", 1}}).unflatten() == json({{"a", {1, 2}}}));
CHECK(json({{"/a/1", 2}, {"/a/x", 1}}).unflatten() == json({{"a", {{"1", 2}, {"x", 1}}}}));
// roundtrip for primitive values
json j_null;
CHECK(j_null.flatten().unflatten() == j_null);