Add editable json_documents: set, push_back, insert, and erase

basic_json_document gets a second template parameter, Editable
(false by default), plus the aliases json_editable_document,
json_editable_view, ordered_json_editable_document and
ordered_json_editable_view.

Editable documents can change values and structure without
rewriting the source text: set()/push_back() on values, keys,
array indices and JSON pointers; insert() before an array
element; erase() of an object key, array index or JSON pointer.

New values and element sequences go into edit storage that the
document owns and never moves, so views keep referring to their
value across edits and a parsed node never moves. Read-only
documents walk the plain node array and are unaffected.

Strings are checked for UTF-8 on entry, so dump() of an editable
document never throws type_error.316. Binary values cannot be
stored (type_error.319).

A seeded differential test applies random edits to an editable
document and to the equivalent ordered_json and compares both
after every step.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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@@ -33,20 +33,27 @@ static_assert(static_cast<std::uint8_t>(value_t::null) == 0 && static_cast<std::
struct node_flags
{
static constexpr std::uint8_t escaped = 1; ///< string payload lives in the decode arena, not the source
static constexpr std::uint8_t edited = 2; ///< string or number token lives in the edit arena (editable documents)
static constexpr std::uint8_t storage = 3; ///< mask: where a string or number token lives (index into document_data::base)
static constexpr std::uint8_t is_true = 4; ///< boolean value
static constexpr std::uint8_t moved = 8; ///< array/object: the elements live in a separate sequence (editable documents)
static constexpr std::uint8_t is_new = 16; ///< written by an edit: no source position
};
/// kind of an entry of an edited sequence that stands for a value stored
/// elsewhere (the address of the value's node is kept in the len/next bytes)
constexpr std::uint8_t kind_link = 10;
/// One entry of the flat index, in document order. An object's members are
/// stored as key node followed by the value's subtree. Integers keep their
/// converted 64-bit value in the len/next bytes (the node after a scalar is
/// always the next one, and the token length follows from `extra`).
struct node
{
std::uint8_t kind; ///< value_t
std::uint8_t kind; ///< value_t, or kind_link
std::uint8_t flags; ///< node_flags
std::uint16_t extra; ///< numbers: integer digits (low byte) and fraction digits (high byte), 255 = "many"; otherwise 0
std::uint32_t off; ///< source offset (string content, number token, literal, bracket); arena offset if node_flags::escaped
std::uint16_t extra; ///< numbers: integer digits (low byte) and fraction digits (high byte), 255 = "many"; objects: number of the hash index; otherwise 0
std::uint32_t off; ///< source offset (string content, number token, literal, bracket); arena offset if escaped/edited; number of the element sequence if moved
std::uint32_t len; ///< string: decoded bytes; float: token bytes; array/object: element count
std::uint32_t next; ///< array/object: number of nodes of the subtree (its extent in the enclosing sequence)
};
@@ -57,6 +64,21 @@ NLOHMANN_VIEW_ALWAYS_INLINE bool is_container(const node& n) noexcept
return static_cast<unsigned>(n.kind) - 1u <= 1u;
}
/// the value a link node stands for
NLOHMANN_VIEW_ALWAYS_INLINE const node* link_target(const node& n) noexcept
{
const node* t = nullptr;
std::memcpy(static_cast<void*>(&t), reinterpret_cast<const unsigned char*>(&n) + 8, sizeof(const node*)); // NOLINT(cppcoreguidelines-pro-type-reinterpret-cast)
return t;
}
inline void make_link(node& n, const node* target) noexcept
{
n = node{};
n.kind = kind_link;
std::memcpy(reinterpret_cast<unsigned char*>(&n) + 8, static_cast<const void*>(&target), sizeof(const node*)); // NOLINT(cppcoreguidelines-pro-type-reinterpret-cast)
}
/// the converted value of an integer node (stored in len/next)
NLOHMANN_VIEW_ALWAYS_INLINE std::uint64_t integer_bits(const node& n) noexcept
{