json_view: exceptions name the path and the bytes of the value (#5974)

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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@@ -134,9 +134,21 @@ document: `#!cpp auto v = json_document::parse(text).root();` does not compile.
- **Macros.** [`JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING`](../api/macros/json_strict_nul_handling.md) and
[`JSON_NOEXCEPTION`](../api/macros/json_noexception.md)/[`JSON_THROW_USER`](../api/macros/json_throw_user.md)
behave the same way they do for `<nlohmann/json.hpp>`. These are the macros that change what the parser accepts or
how it reports errors. The others either do not apply ([`JSON_DIAGNOSTICS`](../api/macros/json_diagnostics.md)
needs parent pointers in `basic_json` values) or only affect the values `materialize()` produces, through
`BasicJsonType`.
how it reports errors. Two more macros add context to the exceptions of views, as they do for those of
`#!cpp basic_json`:
- With [`JSON_DIAGNOSTICS`](../api/macros/json_diagnostics.md), an exception names the JSON Pointer path of the
value within the document.
- With [`JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS`](../api/macros/json_diagnostic_positions.md), an exception names the bytes of
the value in the source text.
A view has neither parent pointers nor stored positions, so both are found from the document's index when the
exception is thrown. This takes time linear in the size of the document. One exception has neither:
`key()` of an iterator over an array or a primitive value
([`invalid_iterator.207`](../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptioninvalid_iterator207)), because a view's iterator does
not know the value it iterates over.
The other macros only affect the values `materialize()` produces, through `BasicJsonType`.
## What is different
@@ -167,10 +179,6 @@ document: `#!cpp auto v = json_document::parse(text).root();` does not compile.
[`at`](../api/basic_json_view/at.md) throws for every missing value.
- **Duplicate keys: lookups find the first member, `parse()` keeps the last.** See [Duplicate keys](#duplicate-keys)
below.
- **No [`JSON_DIAGNOSTICS`](../api/macros/json_diagnostics.md) path.** Exceptions thrown by `basic_json_view`'s own
element access and lookup functions never carry the JSON Pointer path `JSON_DIAGNOSTICS` would otherwise add: the
view has no `basic_json` value to point at, so the exception is created without one, regardless of how
`BasicJsonType` was built.
- **Ordering comparisons are not provided** by `basic_json_view` — there is no `#!cpp operator<`.
[`operator==`](../api/basic_json_view/operator_eq.md) and [`operator!=`](../api/basic_json_view/operator_ne.md) are
provided, though: two views, or a view and a `BasicJsonType` value, compare equal exactly when
@@ -357,14 +365,10 @@ Its body may only use what views and `basic_json` have in common: the type check
a view does not have; such a type is converted through `materialize()`. A `from_json()` for `json` only is
converted through `materialize()` as well.
Two things differ when a `from_json()` reads the view:
- **Duplicate keys.** Members looked up by name (`at()`, `value()`, ... and thus the macros) find the **first** member
with a repeated key, see [Duplicate keys](#duplicate-keys); `#!cpp materialize().get<T>()` would see the last one.
Containers built from an object, such as `#!cpp std::map`, keep the **last** value either way, as
[`parse()`](../api/basic_json/parse.md) does.
- **[`JSON_DIAGNOSTICS`](../api/macros/json_diagnostics.md).** Exceptions thrown by the view carry no path to the
value.
One thing differs when a `from_json()` reads the view: members looked up by name (`at()`, `value()`, ... and thus
the macros) find the **first** member with a repeated key, see [Duplicate keys](#duplicate-keys);
`#!cpp materialize().get<T>()` would see the last one. Containers built from an object, such as `#!cpp std::map`,
keep the **last** value either way, as [`parse()`](../api/basic_json/parse.md) does.
`to_json()` is unaffected: it writes `basic_json` values, never views.