Swap diagnostic positions in basic_json::swap()

basic_json::swap() (and the friend swap() that forwards to it) only
exchanged m_data.m_type/m_data.m_value, leaving start_position/end_position
untouched under JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS. This is inconsistent with
copy-assignment's operator=(basic_json), which swaps positions as part of
its copy-and-swap implementation, so after swap(a, b) each value ended up
with the other value's content but its own original position.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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Niels Lohmann
2026-09-05 21:32:43 +02:00
parent 09b6b6b5ba
commit 8f5dbb56c5
4 changed files with 93 additions and 2 deletions
@@ -1955,3 +1955,80 @@ TEST_CASE("parser class")
}
}
}
TEST_CASE("diagnostic positions: value lifetime")
{
SECTION("copy constructor copies positions, recursively")
{
const std::string s = R"({"a":1,"b":[1,2,3]})";
const json a = json::parse(s);
const json b = a; // NOLINT(performance-unnecessary-copy-initialization)
CHECK(b.start_pos() == a.start_pos());
CHECK(b.end_pos() == a.end_pos());
CHECK(b["b"].start_pos() == a["b"].start_pos());
CHECK(b["b"].end_pos() == a["b"].end_pos());
}
SECTION("move constructor resets the moved-from value to npos")
{
const std::string s = R"({"a":1,"b":[1,2,3]})";
json a = json::parse(s);
const auto a_start = a.start_pos();
const auto a_end = a.end_pos();
const json b(std::move(a));
CHECK(b.start_pos() == a_start);
CHECK(b.end_pos() == a_end);
CHECK(a.start_pos() == std::string::npos); // NOLINT(bugprone-use-after-move,clang-analyzer-cplusplus.Move)
CHECK(a.end_pos() == std::string::npos); // NOLINT(bugprone-use-after-move,clang-analyzer-cplusplus.Move)
}
SECTION("swap() exchanges positions along with the values")
{
// basic_json::swap() (and the friend swap() that forwards to it) used
// to swap only m_data.m_type/m_data.m_value, leaving
// start_position/end_position untouched -- unlike copy-assignment's
// operator=(basic_json), which swaps positions as part of its
// copy-and-swap implementation. After swap(a, b), each value ended up
// with the *other* value's content but its *own* original position.
// This is now fixed so that swap() is consistent with copy-assignment.
json a = json::parse(R"({"a":1})");
json b = json::parse(R"([1,2,3,4,5])");
const auto a_start = a.start_pos();
const auto a_end = a.end_pos();
const auto b_start = b.start_pos();
const auto b_end = b.end_pos();
// lengths (and thus end positions) differ, which is enough to tell
// after the swap whether positions actually moved with the values
CHECK(a_end != b_end);
using std::swap;
swap(a, b);
CHECK(a == json::parse(R"([1,2,3,4,5])"));
CHECK(b == json::parse(R"({"a":1})"));
CHECK(a.start_pos() == b_start);
CHECK(a.end_pos() == b_end);
CHECK(b.start_pos() == a_start);
CHECK(b.end_pos() == a_end);
// member swap() behaves the same as the free function
json c = json::parse(R"({"a":1})");
json d = json::parse(R"([1,2,3,4,5])");
const auto c_start = c.start_pos();
const auto c_end = c.end_pos();
const auto d_start = d.start_pos();
const auto d_end = d.end_pos();
c.swap(d);
CHECK(c.start_pos() == d_start);
CHECK(c.end_pos() == d_end);
CHECK(d.start_pos() == c_start);
CHECK(d.end_pos() == c_end);
}
}