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 Niels Lohmann
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Review and extend the documentation, and check it in CI (#5638)
* Review and extend the documentation, and check it in CI A review of all documentation pages found factual errors, dead links, missing cross-references, and gaps in examples. This fixes them and adds checks so the same problems are caught automatically. Fixes: - wrong signatures and version histories (operator!= C++20 member, binary() subtype type, get<PointerType>(), JSON_NO_THREAD_LOCAL, ...) - stale descriptions (number parsing since #5283, UBJSON table, SAX example that no longer compiled, tsl::ordered_map advice) - dead internal and external links; repology.org badges (the domain is suspended) replaced by badges that query the registries directly - deprecation notes link the migration guide; the guide itself fixed Additions: - "See also" sections, cross-references, 25 runnable examples, 12 Mermaid diagrams, new API pages for json_pointer::operator<=> and byte_container_with_subtype::operator==/!= - landing page, guides for untrusted input and performance - "unreleased" badge after versions newer than the latest release Checks: - strict documentation build (broken links/anchors fail it); CI and the publish workflow fetch the full history the build needs - weekly external link check, Mermaid syntax check in CI - check_structure.py: example titles, heading levels, alt texts, header links, docset index coverage; its unused-example check works again - all examples produce the same output on every platform Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> * Keep the customer links that could not be fixed A dead link on the customers page is still the evidence of where the use of the library was documented. Keep the original URLs of the entries without a working replacement (Marne, Cisco Webex Desk Camera, Philips Hue, CyberArk) and exclude exactly these URLs from the link check. Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> * Correct the duplicate-key recipe's claim about SAX positions The SAX interface's key() receives no position either; only parse_error() does. Also note that the recipe does not report the path to the repeated key (see discussion #5085). Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> * Say the library is available as a single header and mention json_fwd.hpp Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> * Correct documentation errors found while hunting for bugs - patch/patch_inplace: list the JSON pointer errors parse_error.106-109 and out_of_range.402/404, and quote the actual parse_error.105 message. - unflatten: list parse_error.106/107/108 and out_of_range.404. - to_bson: list out_of_range.415 (binary subtype above 255) and note that 412 and 415 are new in 3.13.0. - to_string: state that string_t must be convertible to std::string, also in the StringType requirements table. - JSON Lines: a `while (input >> j)` loop also throws after the last value for concatenated JSON values; show a loop that works for both. - BON8: a string gets 0xFF only if nothing follows it in the message; a string at the end of an array or object is ended by 0xFE. - custom_string_type.hpp: add operator+=(char), which the "Always required" list asks for (json_pointer::to_string, flatten, unflatten, and diff did not compile), and an ADL int_to_string for diff and items. Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> * Cache the release headers with functools.lru_cache Codacy (Pylint) flagged the mutable default argument that header() used as its cache. functools.lru_cache keeps the same memoization without it. The script's output is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> --------- Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> |
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Niels Lohmann
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Give operator>> a strong exception-safety guarantee (#5695)
operator>> parsed directly into its basic_json& target, so a parse error left the target holding whatever was parsed before the error instead of its previous value. With JSON_DIAGNOSTICS=1, that partial value also violated the class invariant, because the parent pointers of an array or object's elements are only set when the container is closed, which a failed parse never reaches; copying such a value then aborted in assert_invariant(). Fix it the way basic_json::parse() already handles this: parse into a temporary and move it into the target only once parsing succeeds, so the target is left unchanged if an exception is thrown. Fixes #5652. Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> |
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 Niels LohmannandClaude Sonnet 5
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bfe0f32d71 |
Fix std::terminate and null pointer access in input_stream_adapter (#5699)
Parsing from a std::istream crashed in two unusual but valid stream states, both in input_stream_adapter: - With eofbit in the stream's exceptions() mask, get_character() sets eofbit via is->clear(), which throws std::ios_base::failure. While that exception unwinds, ~input_stream_adapter() called clear() again to reset eofbit, which is still set and still in the exception mask, so it throws a second time out of the (implicitly noexcept) destructor and std::terminate() is called. The destructor now only calls clear() if a bit other than eofbit remains set, so the first exception can propagate normally. - For an std::istream without a stream buffer (rdbuf() == nullptr, e.g. std::istream(nullptr)), the constructor stored the null pointer without checking it, and get_character() dereferenced it. input_adapter(std::istream&) now throws parse_error.101 for such a stream, the same as it already does for a null FILE* or char*. Added regression tests to unit-deserialization.cpp and, for the JSON_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION variant of get_character(), to unit-precise-stream-position.cpp; both crashed before this fix. Documented the two exceptions in parse.md and operator_gtgt.md. Fixes #5646. Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Niels Lohmann
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Add JSON_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION to leave the character that terminates a number in the stream (#5344)
* docs: qualify the operator>> stream positioning guarantee operator>>'s notes state that it leaves the stream positioned right after the parsed value, so that concatenated JSON values can be read back to back. That does not hold when the value is a number: a number is only terminated by the character that follows it, and the lexer's unget() is simulated (it rewinds only the lexer's own bookkeeping), so that character stays consumed from the stream. Document the actual behaviour: the guarantee holds for all value types except numbers, which must be followed by whitespace. Also qualify the cross-reference on the JSON Lines page, which repeated the unqualified claim. Documentation only; the behaviour itself is tracked in #5340. Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> * fix: restore the character that terminates a number (#5340) operator>> is documented to leave the stream positioned right after the parsed value, so that concatenated JSON values can be read back to back. That did not hold for numbers: a number is only terminated by the character following it, and lexer::scan_number() reads that character and calls unget() -- which is simulated and rewinds only the lexer's own bookkeeping. input_stream_adapter consumes via sbumpc() with no matching sungetc(), so the terminating character stayed consumed and the next extraction started one byte too late ('1true' left the stream at 'rue'). Propagating unget() to the adapter directly does not work: next_unget makes the following get() replay the cached character, so the terminator would be delivered twice. Instead, restore the still-pending character once at the end of a non-strict parse, where the input is handed back to the caller: - input_stream_adapter gains unget_character() (sungetc()) and advertises it via supports_unget, detected the same way as supports_seek. - lexer::restore_pending_unget() turns a pending simulated unget of a real (non-EOF) character into a real one and clears next_unget so the character is not also replayed. It is a no-op for adapters that cannot unget, and reports failure when sungetc() fails, in which case the input is left as it was before. - parser calls it on the three non-strict paths, i.e. for operator>> and sax_parse(strict = false). Strict parse()/accept() are unaffected: they require the input to end after the value, so the character is consumed by the end-of-input check anyway. Parse error messages and reported positions are unchanged. Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> * tests: fix CI failures in the #5340 test helpers Four CI failures, all in the new test code: - GCC (-Werror=useless-cast): drop the `json(...)` wrapper around `json::parse(...)`, which already returns a `json`. - GCC (-Werror=unused-result): assign the discarded `json::parse()` result to a dummy, the idiom used elsewhere in the test suite, and catch `json::parse_error&` for consistency. - clang-tidy (google-default-arguments): remove the default argument from the `pbackfail()` override; `sungetc()` supplies the base declaration's default. - MSVC (bad allocation): `no_putback_streambuf::underflow()` set a one-character get area without advancing `m_pos`, so an implementation whose `istream::get` peeks before it bumps re-read the same character forever. Keep no get area at all: `underflow()` peeks, `uflow()` consumes, and `sungetc()` still always lands in `pbackfail()`, which is what the test needs. Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> * fix: leave the character that terminates a number in the input Read the character following a number without consuming it, instead of consuming it and putting it back. input_stream_adapter now peeks with sgetc() and only steps over the character when the next one is requested or when the adapter is destroyed, so releasing it cannot fail - no putback position is required from the streambuf. Suggested by gregmarr in #5344. Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> * docs: match the version history wording to the peek-based fix Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> * docs: drop the whitespace-separator caveat from the parsing pages The caveat added in #5343 describes the behavior this branch fixes: a number no longer consumes the character that terminates it, so concatenated values need no separator. Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> * refactor: split the strict and non-strict paths in parser Folding the release_lookahead() call into the existing strict check left the "in strict mode" comment on an else-if branch, and made the strict condition in sax_parse() redundant with the branch it followed. Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> * Put the stream position fix behind JSON_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION Leaving the character that terminates a number in the stream is observable: reading "1,2,3" with repeated operator>> works today only because the comma after each number is swallowed, and std::getline after a number skips the line break. Both break with the fix, so make it opt-in for 3.x, as suggested by @gregmarr in the review. - JSON_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION (default 0) selects the peek-based input_stream_adapter. Without it, the adapter is the consuming one from develop and has no supports_lookahead, so lexer::release_lookahead() and the parser's calls to it compile to nothing. - The macro changes input_stream_adapter's layout and member functions, so it gets the ABI tag _psp, after _bics. The ABI config tests, the natvis generator, and nlohmann_json.natvis (regenerated) know the tag. - The tests for the fix move to unit-precise-stream-position.cpp, which defines the macro itself and runs in every build, and gain the two cases above. unit-deserialization.cpp pins the default behavior instead. - The docs describe the default behavior again and point to the new macro page; version history says "added in 3.13.0, planned default in 4.0.0". Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> --------- Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> |
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Niels LohmannandClaude Sonnet 5
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Document that a NUL byte in the input is treated as end of input (#5534)
* docs: document that a NUL byte in the input is treated as end of input A NUL byte anywhere in the input - trailing, or embedded ahead of more otherwise well-formed JSON - is currently treated the same as genuine end of input, so parsing silently stops there instead of raising the parse_error.101 any other unexpected byte triggers. This mirrors the NUL-terminated-C-string convention already used when no explicit input length is given (json::parse(const char*) already stops at strlen()), just applied uniformly rather than only when a length is genuinely unavailable. This behavior predates this change and is not being altered here - changing it would be an observable, backwards-incompatible behavior change for any caller that (knowingly or not) depends on it, which is not something to do silently in a patch. Documenting the current, verified behavior as a new FAQ entry instead, so it's an intentional and discoverable part of the contract rather than a surprise. Fixes #5530. Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <niels.lohmann@gmail.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N4RQ1Ahan5YAGbnAQGjZTY * Add JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING opt-in macro for issue #5530 A NUL byte anywhere in the input is currently treated the same as real end of input, rather than raising parse_error.101 like any other unexpected byte (documented in the previous commit's FAQ entry). A full unconditional fix was tried in PR #5532 but rejected as too risky to ship by default: any caller could depend on the current behavior, even unknowingly (e.g. a zero-padded buffer). On PR #5534, gregmarr proposed a compile-time opt-in flag instead, and the maintainer agreed, wanting it available now and defaulting to the corrected behavior in 4.0.0. This mirrors the existing JSON_BRACE_INIT_COPY_SEMANTICS precedent as closely as sensible: - JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING defaults to 0 (off); the three lexer sites that treat '\0' as EOF/comment-terminator are gated with `#if !JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING` so the default-off behavior is byte-for-byte identical to today's. - input_adapters.hpp's `T (&array)[N]` overload additionally trims a single trailing '\0' from a `char` array (e.g. a string literal like `json::parse("123")`) when the macro is on, so that case keeps working; every other element type (unsigned char, std::uint8_t, ...) always keeps its full extent. This intentionally does *not* reuse the existing strlen()-based pointer overload via SFINAE-excluding `char` from the array overload, as originally sketched for this change: that approach is ambiguous against the newer generic container overload added since PR #5532, and even where it compiles, strlen()-scanning a `char` array that is not NUL-terminated within its bounds reads past the end of the array (confirmed with AddressSanitizer). Trimming only a single trailing byte, without scanning, avoids both problems. - Documented via docs/mkdocs/docs/api/macros/json_strict_nul_handling.md, linked from the macros index/nav/features page, the FAQ entry, and the parse/accept/operator>> reference pages. - Tested in unit-class_parser.cpp and unit-deserialization.cpp, default state unguarded and opt-in state guarded. Since the library itself #undefs the macro at the end of json.hpp (as JSON_BRACE_INIT_COPY_SEMANTICS already does), a plain `#if defined(JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING)` guard after the include never actually triggers; the tests instead capture the command-line value into a test-local macro before including the header. A few pre-existing fixtures elsewhere (std::array<uint8_t, N> sized one larger than their literal, relying on value-initialization to silently add a trailing zero byte) needed the same one-byte adjustment to keep passing under the opt-in behavior. Unlike the precedent, this adds a proper `JSON_StrictNulHandling` CMake option (rather than a raw -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS injection) and wires its ci_test_strict_nul_handling target into the ci_cmake_options job matrix in .github/workflows/ubuntu.yml, so the opt-in build is actually exercised in CI -- closing the one gap in the precedent's own CI setup (ci_test_brace_init_copy_semantics is defined but never referenced by any workflow, so it has never actually run). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> * Clarify where JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING does not reject NUL bytes Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> --------- Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <niels.lohmann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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docs: qualify the operator>> stream positioning guarantee (#5343)
operator>>'s notes state that it leaves the stream positioned right after the parsed value, so that concatenated JSON values can be read back to back. That does not hold when the value is a number: a number is only terminated by the character that follows it, and the lexer's unget() is simulated (it rewinds only the lexer's own bookkeeping), so that character stays consumed from the stream. Document the actual behaviour: the guarantee holds for all value types except numbers, which must be followed by whitespace. Also qualify the cross-reference on the JSON Lines page, which repeated the unqualified claim. Documentation only; the behaviour itself is tracked in #5340. Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> |
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Fix documentation gaps found in a full GitHub Discussions review (#5264)
* 📝 Fix documentation gaps found in a full GitHub Discussions review Reviewed all 1008 GitHub Discussions (2020-2026) for recurring questions that better or more visible documentation would have avoided. Adds/expands documentation for ~26 distinct gaps, including: - New "Debugging" page collecting natvis, GDB pretty printer, LLDB status, and JSON_DIAGNOSTICS pointers (previously scattered/undiscoverable) - Thread-safety and schema-validation FAQ entries - StringType's char-based requirement (no wstring/u16string/u32string) - Brace-initialization-yields-arrays warning directly on the constructor reference page (previously only in the FAQ, missed by users reading the constructor docs) - std::any exclusion from get<T>(), with a manual-dispatch example - Non-string-keyed std::map serializing as an array of pairs - ordered_json compatibility with NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_* macros (already worked, was undocumented) - std::array truncation on size-mismatched conversion (no exception) - static_cast vs. get<std::optional<T>>() divergence - Recipe for omitting a std::optional field instead of emitting null - No built-in nesting-depth limit during parsing + a callback-based workaround recipe - Recipe for streaming a large homogeneous array via parser callbacks - operator>> stream-position semantics for concatenated JSON values - JSON Pointer array-vs-object creation rule for non-existing paths - CMake target name (nlohmann_json_modules) needed to link C++20 modules - ESP-IDF/PlatformIO: no official package, link to a community fork - get(key, default) as the Python dict.get() equivalent - reserve() recipe for pre-allocating array capacity - JSONC as an alias for the existing ignore_comments/ignore_trailing_commas combination (distinct from the unsupported JSON5) - items() dereferenced-element type: decltype() idiom + detail-namespace stability caveat - Various macro/type-conversion limitations (MSGPACK_DEFINE_ARRAY equivalent, char-array round-tripping, ADL serializer macro gap) Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> * 🎨 fix format Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> --------- Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> |
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c5b2b26fdc | 📝 fix docs (#5217) | ||
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Niels Lohmann
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4424a0fcc1 |
📝 update documentation (#4723)
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me> |
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 Niels LohmannandFlorian Albrechtskirchinger
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7b6cf5918b |
Documentation change (#3672)
Co-authored-by: Florian Albrechtskirchinger <falbrechtskirchinger@gmail.com> |
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Florian Albrechtskirchinger
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e3095f636f |
Add operator<<(json_pointer) (#3601)
* Add operator<< for json_pointer * Deprecate json_pointer::operator string_t() * Update documentation * Move operator<<(basic_json) example * Add example * Add mkdocs-redirects * Move operator<< and operator>> doc pages out of basic_json/ * Rename JSON pointer operator_string to operator_string_t * Add unit test |