Do not write BJData ndarrays whose size overflows std::size_t (#5362)

* Do not write BJData ndarrays whose size overflows std::size_t

write_bjdata_ndarray() multiplied the _ArraySize_ dimensions into a
std::size_t without checking for overflow. A product that wraps around
to a value that happens to match the size of _ArrayData_ passed the
length check, and the writer emitted an ndarray header announcing an
element count that cannot be represented:

    {"_ArrayType_":"uint8","_ArraySize_":[9223372036854775808,2],"_ArrayData_":[]}

was encoded as 5b 24 55 23 5b 4d 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 69 02 5d, an
ndarray of 2^64 elements followed by no data. Reading that back throws
out_of_range.408 ("excessive ndarray size caused overflow"), so to_bjdata
produced output that from_bjdata rejects. This is reachable by parsing
untrusted JSON and re-encoding it as BJData.

Mirror the overflow check the binary reader already performs, and also
reject a single dimension that does not fit into std::size_t, which the
previous cast silently truncated where std::size_t is narrower than 64
bits. Such objects now fall back to a plain object encoding, which is
what the surrounding type and length validation already does for
annotations it cannot represent, and they round-trip unchanged.

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

* Document when to_bjdata converts a JData annotation to an ND-array

The BJData page described the 1-D vector case as the only situation in
which an object carrying _ArrayType_/_ArraySize_/_ArrayData_ is not
written as a compact ND-array. The writer has always had several other
fallbacks -- an unknown _ArrayType_, a dimension that is not a
non-negative integer, an _ArrayData_ whose length does not match the
product of the dimensions, and elements that are not numbers of the
annotated kind -- all of which cause the value to be serialized as a
regular JSON object instead.

Spell out the conditions, including the size-overflow check added in the
preceding commit, so the documented behavior matches the implementation.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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@@ -116,9 +116,19 @@ The library uses the following mapping from JSON values types to BJData types ac
```
Likewise, when a JSON object in the above form is serialized using
[`to_bjdata`](../../api/basic_json/to_bjdata.md), it is automatically converted into a compact BJData ND-array. The
only exception is, that when the 1-dimensional vector stored in `"_ArraySize_"` contains a single integer or two
integers with one being 1, a regular 1-D optimized array is generated.
[`to_bjdata`](../../api/basic_json/to_bjdata.md), it is automatically converted into a compact BJData ND-array. When
the 1-dimensional vector stored in `"_ArraySize_"` contains a single integer or two integers with one being 1, a
regular 1-D optimized array is generated instead.
An object is only converted if the annotation actually describes a packed array; otherwise it is serialized as a
regular JSON object. This requires all of the following:
- `"_ArrayType_"` is one of `uint8`, `int8`, `uint16`, `int16`, `uint32`, `int32`, `uint64`, `int64`, `single`,
`double`, `char`, or `byte`,
- every entry of `"_ArraySize_"` is a non-negative integer, and their product is representable as a `std::size_t`,
- `"_ArrayData_"` holds exactly that many elements, and
- every element of `"_ArrayData_"` is a number of the kind named by `"_ArrayType_"` (a floating-point number for
`single` and `double`, an integer otherwise).
The current version of this library does not yet support automatic detection of and conversion from a nested JSON
array input to a BJData ND-array.