Remove the conversion to bool from json_view

explicit operator bool meant "refers to a value", which silently differs
from what a basic_json converts to. Use !v.is_discarded() instead.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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Niels Lohmann committed 2026-10-17 08:30:31 +02:00
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@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ int main()
// the default constructor is the only public one: it creates an invalid
// (discarded) view, useful as a "no value yet" placeholder
nlohmann::json_view v;
std::cout << static_cast<bool>(v) << ' ' << v.is_discarded() << '\n';
std::cout << v.is_discarded() << '\n';
// views are trivially copyable handles (two pointers); the document owns
// the actual data
nlohmann::json_view copy = v;
std::cout << static_cast<bool>(copy) << '\n';
std::cout << copy.is_discarded() << '\n';
}
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
false true
false
true
true
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ int main()
// parse without exceptions, are both discarded
nlohmann::json_view invalid;
json_document failed = json_document::parse("not json", /* allow_exceptions */ false);
std::cout << static_cast<bool>(invalid) << ' ' << invalid.is_discarded() << '\n';
std::cout << static_cast<bool>(failed.root()) << ' ' << failed.root().is_discarded() << '\n';
std::cout << invalid.is_discarded() << '\n';
std::cout << failed.root().is_discarded() << '\n';
// type() returns the same value_t enumeration as basic_json::type()
std::cout << (d_object.root().type() == nlohmann::json::value_t::object) << '\n';
@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ true
true true
true false
false
false true
false true
true
true
true