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</code></pre></div> <p>Writes the document as an <em>image</em>: a byte buffer that <a href=../load/ ><code>load</code></a> reads back without parsing. The image holds the node index, the source text (plus, for an edited document, the number tokens edits wrote), and the decoded strings (plus the strings edits wrote) -- everything <a href=../root/ ><code>root()</code></a> needs, with nothing left to parse.</p> <p>An edited document is written in its <em>current</em> state, with its values in document order, the way the library's own parser would have produced them for that <abbr title="JavaScript Object Notation">JSON</abbr> text: a member <a href=../set/ ><code>set</code></a> added goes at the end, an <a href=../erase/ ><code>erase</code></a>d member leaves no trace, and a float that is not finite (<abbr title="Not a Number">NaN</abbr> or positive/negative infinity) becomes null, the same substitution <a href=../../basic_json_view/dump/ ><code>dump()</code></a> makes. The same document always saves to the same bytes -- also across <code>BasicJsonType</code> and <code class=highlight><span class=n>Editable</span></code>, since the image reflects document order and values only, not which specialization produced them.</p> <h2 id=return-value>Return value<a class=headerlink href=#return-value title="Permanent link">¶</a></h2> <p>The image, as a <code class=highlight><span class=n>std</span><span class=o>::</span><span class=n>vector</span><span class=o><</span><span class=n>std</span><span class=o>::</span><span class=kt>uint8_t</span><span class=o>></span></code>. Pass it, or a pointer to its data together with its size, to <a href=../load/ ><code>load</code></a> to read the document back.</p> <h2 id=exception-safety>Exception safety<a class=headerlink href=#exception-safety title="Permanent link">¶</a></h2> <p>Strong guarantee: <code>save()</code> does not modify <code class=highlight><span class=o>*</span><span class=k>this</span></code> (it is <code class=highlight><span class=k>const</span></code>), so if it throws, the document is left exactly as it was, and the partially built image is discarded with the exception.</p> <h2 id=exceptions>Exceptions<a class=headerlink href=#exceptions title="Permanent link">¶</a></h2> <p>Throws <a href=../../../home/exceptions/#jsonexceptiontype_error320><code>type_error.320</code></a> if the document is <a href=../is_discarded/ >discarded</a> -- a default-constructed document, or one a failed <a href=../parse/ ><code>parse()</code></a>/ <a href=../read/ ><code>read()</code></a> with <code>allow_exceptions == false</code> left discarded.</p> <p>On a big-endian target, throws <code>type_error.320</code> with a different message instead: the image format is little-endian only (see <a href=#notes>Notes</a>).</p> <p>Throws <a href=../../../home/exceptions/#jsonexceptionout_of_range416><code>out_of_range.416</code></a> if the node count, the text, or the decoded strings of the image would individually reach 4 GiB -- the same 32-bit offsets <a href=../parse/#exceptions><code>parse()</code></a> and, for edits, <a href=../set/ ><code>set</code></a>/<a href=../push_back/ ><code>push_back</code></a> are already limited to.</p> <div class="admonition failure"> <p class=admonition-title>Example messages</p> <p><div class=highlight><pre><span></span><code>[json.exception.type_error.320] cannot save a discarded json_document
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</code></pre></div> <div class=highlight><pre><span></span><code>[json.exception.type_error.320] json_document images need a little-endian target
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</code></pre></div> <div class=highlight><pre><span></span><code>[json.exception.out_of_range.416] images of 4 GiB or more are not supported by json_document
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</code></pre></div></p> </div> <h2 id=complexity>Complexity<a class=headerlink href=#complexity title="Permanent link">¶</a></h2> <p>Linear in the size of the document: the number of nodes, plus the length of the text and the decoded strings that end up in the image.</p> <h2 id=notes>Notes<a class=headerlink href=#notes title="Permanent link">¶</a></h2> <p><strong>Format.</strong> The image begins with a 64-byte header (the magic bytes <code class=highlight><span class=s>"NJVI"</span></code>, a version number, the node count, and the sizes of the text and the decoded strings, all little-endian), followed by the nodes (<a href=../../../home/architecture/#node-index-of-json-views>16 bytes each</a>), the text and a <code class=highlight><span class=sc>'\0'</span></code>, and the decoded strings and a <code class=highlight><span class=sc>'\0'</span></code>. <a href=../load/ ><code>load</code></a> checks the header, and the sizes it describes, before reading anything else -- see <a href=../load/#exceptions><code>load</code>'s Exceptions</a>.</p> <div class="admonition warning"> <p class=admonition-title>Experimental</p> <p>The image format is versioned but not yet stable: it may change in an incompatible way before it is declared stable. Use images to cache a document within one build of the library, or to hand one to another process running the <em>same</em> build on the <em>same</em> (little-endian) machine -- not as a long-term storage format. Keep the original <abbr title="JavaScript Object Notation">JSON</abbr> text if you need to read a saved document back with a future library version.</p> </div> <p><strong>Little-endian only.</strong> The image is written as raw little-endian bytes, with no byte-swapping. <code>save()</code> (and <a href=../load/ ><code>load</code></a>) throw <code>type_error.320</code> on a big-endian target rather than silently produce bytes a big-endian reader could not interpret correctly.</p> <h2 id=examples>Examples<a class=headerlink href=#examples title="Permanent link">¶</a></h2> <details class=example> <summary>Caching a parsed document as an image</summary> <p>The example below saves a parsed configuration as an image -- the way a service might cache one to answer later requests without parsing the text again -- and confirms that loading it back gives exactly the same result as parsing did, and that saving is deterministic.</p> <div class=highlight><pre><span></span><code><span class=cp>#include</span><span class=w> </span><span class=cpf><cstdint></span>
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<span class=cp>#include</span><span class=w> </span><span class=cpf><iostream></span>
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<span class=cp>#include</span><span class=w> </span><span class=cpf><string></span>
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<span class=cp>#include</span><span class=w> </span><span class=cpf><vector></span>
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<span class=cp>#include</span><span class=w> </span><span class=cpf><nlohmann/json_view.hpp></span>
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<span class=k>using</span><span class=w> </span><span class=n>json_document</span><span class=w> </span><span class=o>=</span><span class=w> </span><span class=n>nlohmann</span><span class=o>::</span><span class=n>json_document</span><span class=p>;</span>
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<span class=kt>int</span><span class=w> </span><span class=nf>main</span><span class=p>()</span>
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<span class=p>{</span>
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<span class=w> </span><span class=n>std</span><span class=o>::</span><span class=n>cout</span><span class=w> </span><span class=o><<</span><span class=w> </span><span class=n>std</span><span class=o>::</span><span class=n>boolalpha</span><span class=p>;</span>
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<span class=w> </span><span class=c1>// a configuration a service parses once and then caches as an image, so</span>
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<span class=w> </span><span class=c1>// that later requests can load() it instead of parsing the text again</span>
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<span class=w> </span><span class=k>const</span><span class=w> </span><span class=n>std</span><span class=o>::</span><span class=n>string</span><span class=w> </span><span class=n>text</span><span class=w> </span><span class=o>=</span><span class=w> </span><span class=sa>R</span><span class=s>"</span><span class=dl>(</span><span class=s>{"name": "cache", "host": "db1", "port": 6379, "replicas": ["db2", "db3"]}</span><span class=dl>)</span><span class=s>"</span><span class=p>;</span>
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<span class=w> </span><span class=k>const</span><span class=w> </span><span class=n>json_document</span><span class=w> </span><span class=n>config</span><span class=w> </span><span class=o>=</span><span class=w> </span><span class=n>json_document</span><span class=o>::</span><span class=n>parse</span><span class=p>(</span><span class=n>text</span><span class=p>);</span>
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<span class=w> </span><span class=c1>// save() turns the parsed document into a byte buffer: a 64-byte header,</span>
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<span class=w> </span><span class=c1>// the node index, the source text, and the decoded strings</span>
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<span class=w> </span><span class=k>const</span><span class=w> </span><span class=n>std</span><span class=o>::</span><span class=n>vector</span><span class=o><</span><span class=n>std</span><span class=o>::</span><span class=kt>uint8_t</span><span class=o>></span><span class=w> </span><span class=n>image</span><span class=w> </span><span class=o>=</span><span class=w> </span><span class=n>config</span><span class=p>.</span><span class=n>save</span><span class=p>();</span>
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<span class=w> </span><span class=n>std</span><span class=o>::</span><span class=n>cout</span><span class=w> </span><span class=o><<</span><span class=w> </span><span class=n>image</span><span class=p>.</span><span class=n>size</span><span class=p>()</span><span class=w> </span><span class=o><<</span><span class=w> </span><span class=sc>'\n'</span><span class=p>;</span>
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<span class=w> </span><span class=c1>// the same document always saves to the same bytes</span>
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<span class=w> </span><span class=n>std</span><span class=o>::</span><span class=n>cout</span><span class=w> </span><span class=o><<</span><span class=w> </span><span class=p>(</span><span class=n>image</span><span class=w> </span><span class=o>==</span><span class=w> </span><span class=n>json_document</span><span class=o>::</span><span class=n>parse</span><span class=p>(</span><span class=n>text</span><span class=p>).</span><span class=n>save</span><span class=p>())</span><span class=w> </span><span class=o><<</span><span class=w> </span><span class=sc>'\n'</span><span class=p>;</span>
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<span class=w> </span><span class=c1>// loading the image back needs no parsing, yet dumps exactly what</span>
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<span class=w> </span><span class=c1>// parsing the text produced</span>
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<span class=w> </span><span class=k>const</span><span class=w> </span><span class=n>json_document</span><span class=w> </span><span class=n>reloaded</span><span class=w> </span><span class=o>=</span><span class=w> </span><span class=n>json_document</span><span class=o>::</span><span class=n>load</span><span class=p>(</span><span class=n>image</span><span class=p>);</span>
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<span class=w> </span><span class=n>std</span><span class=o>::</span><span class=n>cout</span><span class=w> </span><span class=o><<</span><span class=w> </span><span class=p>(</span><span class=n>reloaded</span><span class=p>.</span><span class=n>root</span><span class=p>().</span><span class=n>dump</span><span class=p>()</span><span class=w> </span><span class=o>==</span><span class=w> </span><span class=n>config</span><span class=p>.</span><span class=n>root</span><span class=p>().</span><span class=n>dump</span><span class=p>())</span><span class=w> </span><span class=o><<</span><span class=w> </span><span class=sc>'\n'</span><span class=p>;</span>
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<span class=p>}</span>
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</code></pre></div> <p>Output:</p> <div class=highlight><pre><span></span><code><span class=mi>316</span>
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<span class=kc>true</span>
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<span class=kc>true</span>
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</code></pre></div> </details> <h2 id=see-also>See also<a class=headerlink href=#see-also title="Permanent link">¶</a></h2> <ul> <li><a href=../load/ >load</a> - read an image written by <code>save()</code></li> <li><a href=../owns_source/ >owns_source</a> - return whether the document holds its own copy of the text</li> <li><a href=../../basic_json_view/dump/ ><code>basic_json_view::dump</code></a> - serialize the document to <abbr title="JavaScript Object Notation">JSON</abbr> text instead of an image</li> <li><a href=../../../features/json_view/#images>Images</a> - why and when to use images</li> </ul> <h2 id=version-history>Version history<a class=headerlink href=#version-history title="Permanent link">¶</a></h2> <ul> <li>Added in version 3.13.0 <span class=unreleased-version title="Not part of a release yet; the latest release is 3.12.0.">unreleased</span>.</li> </ul> <!-- https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/reference/tooltips/#adding-a-glossary --> <aside class=md-source-file> <span class=md-source-file__fact> <span class=md-icon title="Last update"> <svg xmlns=http://www.w3.org/2000/svg viewbox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M21 13.1c-.1 0-.3.1-.4.2l-1 1 2.1 2.1 1-1c.2-.2.2-.6 0-.8l-1.3-1.3c-.1-.1-.2-.2-.4-.2m-1.9 1.8-6.1 6V23h2.1l6.1-6.1zM12.5 7v5.2l4 2.4-1 1L11 13V7zM11 21.9c-5.1-.5-9-4.8-9-9.9C2 6.5 6.5 2 12 2c5.3 0 9.6 4.1 10 9.3-.3-.1-.6-.2-1-.2s-.7.1-1 .2C19.6 7.2 16.2 4 12 4c-4.4 0-8 3.6-8 8 0 4.1 3.1 7.5 7.1 7.9l-.1.2z"/></svg> </span> <span class="git-revision-date-localized-plugin git-revision-date-localized-plugin-date" title="October 21, 2026 08:21:29 UTC">October 21, 2026</span> </span> </aside> </article> </div> <script>var tabs=__md_get("__tabs");if(Array.isArray(tabs))e:for(var set of document.querySelectorAll(".tabbed-set")){var labels=set.querySelector(".tabbed-labels");for(var tab of tabs)for(var label of labels.getElementsByTagName("label"))if(label.innerText.trim()===tab){var input=document.getElementById(label.htmlFor);input.checked=!0;continue e}}</script> <script>var target=document.getElementById(location.hash.slice(1));target&&target.name&&(target.checked=target.name.startsWith("__tabbed_"))</script> </div> <button type=button class="md-top md-icon" data-md-component=top hidden> <svg xmlns=http://www.w3.org/2000/svg viewbox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M13 20h-2V8l-5.5 5.5-1.42-1.42L12 4.16l7.92 7.92-1.42 1.42L13 8z"/></svg> Back to top </button> </main> <footer class=md-footer> <div class="md-footer-meta md-typeset"> <div class="md-footer-meta__inner md-grid"> <div class=md-copyright> <div class=md-copyright__highlight> Copyright © 2013-2026 Niels Lohmann </div> </div> <div class=md-social> <a href="https://github.com/nlohmann" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="github.com" class="md-social__link"> <svg xmlns=http://www.w3.org/2000/svg viewbox="0 0 512 512"><!-- Font Awesome Free 7.1.0 by @fontawesome - https://fontawesome.com License - https://fontawesome.com/license/free (Icons: CC BY 4.0, Fonts: SIL OFL 1.1, Code: MIT License) Copyright 2025 Fonticons, Inc.--><path d="M173.9 397.4c0 2-2.3 3.6-5.2 3.6-3.3.3-5.6-1.3-5.6-3.6 0-2 2.3-3.6 5.2-3.6 3-.3 5.6 1.3 5.6 3.6m-31.1-4.5c-.7 2 1.3 4.3 4.3 4.9 2.6 1 5.6 0 6.2-2s-1.3-4.3-4.3-5.2c-2.6-.7-5.5.3-6.2 2.3m44.2-1.7c-2.9.7-4.9 2.6-4.6 4.9.3 2 2.9 3.3 5.9 2.6 2.9-.7 4.9-2.6 4.6-4.6-.3-1.9-3-3.2-5.9-2.9M252.8 8C114.1 8 8 113.3 8 252c0 110.9 69.8 205.8 169.5 239.2 12.8 2.3 17.3-5.6 17.3-12.1 0-6.2-.3-40.4-.3-61.4 0 0-70 15-84.7-29.8 0 0-11.4-29.1-27.8-36.6 0 0-22.9-15.7 1.6-15.4 0 0 24.9 2 38.6 25.8 21.9 38.6 58.6 27.5 72.9 20.9 2.3-16 8.8-27.1 16-33.7-55.9-6.2-112.3-14.3-112.3-110.5 0-27.5 7.6-41.3 23.6-58.9-2.6-6.5-11.1-33.3 2.6-67.9 20.9-6.5 69 27 69 27 20-5.6 41.5-8.5 62.8-8.5s42.8 2.9 62.8 8.5c0 0 48.1-33.6 69-27 13.7 34.7 5.2 61.4 2.6 67.9 16 17.7 25.8 31.5 25.8 58.9 0 96.5-58.9 104.2-114.8 110.5 9.2 7.9 17 22.9 17 46.4 0 33.7-.3 75.4-.3 83.6 0 6.5 4.6 14.4 17.3 12.1C436.2 457.8 504 362.9 504 252 504 113.3 391.5 8 252.8 8M105.2 352.9c-1.3 1-1 3.3.7 5.2 1.6 1.6 3.9 2.3 5.2 1 1.3-1 1-3.3-.7-5.2-1.6-1.6-3.9-2.3-5.2-1m-10.8-8.1c-.7 1.3.3 2.9 2.3 3.9 1.6 1 3.6.7 4.3-.7.7-1.3-.3-2.9-2.3-3.9-2-.6-3.6-.3-4.3.7m32.4 35.6c-1.6 1.3-1 4.3 1.3 6.2 2.3 2.3 5.2 2.6 6.5 1 1.3-1.3.7-4.3-1.3-6.2-2.2-2.3-5.2-2.6-6.5-1m-11.4-14.7c-1.6 1-1.6 3.6 0 5.9s4.3 3.3 5.6 2.3c1.6-1.3 1.6-3.9 0-6.2-1.4-2.3-4-3.3-5.6-2"/></svg> </a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nielslohmann/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="www.linkedin.com" class="md-social__link"> <svg xmlns=http://www.w3.org/2000/svg viewbox="0 0 448 512"><!-- Font Awesome Free 7.1.0 by @fontawesome - https://fontawesome.com License - https://fontawesome.com/license/free (Icons: CC BY 4.0, Fonts: SIL OFL 1.1, Code: MIT License) Copyright 2025 Fonticons, Inc.--><path d="M416 32H31.9C14.3 32 0 46.5 0 64.3v383.4C0 465.5 14.3 480 31.9 480H416c17.6 0 32-14.5 32-32.3V64.3c0-17.8-14.4-32.3-32-32.3M135.4 416H69V202.2h66.5V416zM102.2 96a38.5 38.5 0 1 1 0 77 38.5 38.5 0 1 1 0-77m282.1 320h-6Line truncated
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