* Scan json_view strings with SIMD and index large objects
Speed up json_view's parser with SIMD scanning and a hash table
for large objects.
Long runs of string bytes are scanned 16 bytes at a time with NEON
(AArch64, GCC and Clang) and SSE2 (x86-64), both baseline
instruction sets. Keys keep 16 table checks before the vector
loop, because their lengths repeat from record to record; string
values get 8, because their lengths vary more. Non-ASCII text is
validated 16 bytes at a time with simdjson's "lookup4" check
(Keiser and Lemire, 2021), with NEON on AArch64 and, on x86-64,
with SSSE3. SSSE3 is not part of baseline x86-64, so the check is
compiled for SSSE3 with a function attribute and used only where
CPUID reports it, which all x86-64 CPUs since about 2011 do; the
answer is cached in a statically initialized atomic, so there is
no guard of a local static and no global constructor. The same
input is accepted either way. JSON_VIEW_NO_SIMD selects the
portable code.
On x86-64, string runs are now checked vector-first: one SSE2
compare from the first byte finds the end of most keys and short
values, instead of a branch per byte for the first 8-16 bytes.
AArch64 keeps the byte-wise steps, where a NEON mask costs more and
the branches predict well. Entering an object or array no longer
stalls: open() stores the parent's frame field by field instead of
building it on the stack and reading it back with wider loads,
which waited for the narrower stores to retire.
Objects with 128 members or more get an open-addressing hash table
built when the object closes, so operator[], at(), find(),
contains(), count(), value(), and JSON pointers take constant time
on average in such objects; of duplicate keys, the first is kept,
as for the linear search. The idea comes from Boost.JSON.
simdjson is credited in simd.hpp's SPDX block, the README, and
license.md.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* Fix GCC module build and MSVC C4127 in the json_view SIMD code
GCC ignores the target attribute in modules, so the SSSE3 dispatch is
disabled for the module interface (the check stays portable, SSE2 is kept).
Make the 8-vs-16 byte unrolling condition in scan_string_run a
preprocessor/template split to avoid a constant condition (C4127).
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* Remove an accidentally committed GCC module cache
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* Bound the probe length of the large-object hash index
The key hash is not seeded, so keys chosen to collide made building the table quadratic (20,000 colliding keys took 470 ms to parse). A key may now sit at most 64 slots from its home slot; if a key would sit further away, the table is dropped and the object is searched linearly. Lookups stop after the same distance.
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* Release the spare capacity of the hash index in shrink_to_fit
shrink_to_fit() now trims the tables of large objects like the node array and the decoded strings, and the list of large objects is released as soon as the tables are built.
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* Use the portable string scan on non-x86 targets that define __SSE2__
WebAssembly with -msse2 defines __SSE2__, but has no <cpuid.h> or x86 intrinsics headers.
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* Document the hash index number in node::extra
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* Keep the last of duplicate keys in the object hash index
Lookups in objects with 128 members or more now return the last member of
a repeated key, like the linear search of smaller objects and like
materialize() and basic_json::parse(). build_object_index let the first
occurrence win, so the same text gave different results depending on the
size of the object.
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* Keep the first of duplicate keys in the object hash index again
Lookups in objects with 128 members or more return the first member of a
repeated key again, like the linear search of smaller objects. This undoes
the code change of a69542046; its test now expects the first member from
lookups (with and without a table) and the last value from materialize()
and basic_json::parse().
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* Fix clang-tidy 22 findings in the json_view headers
Silence bugprone-casting-through-void for the SSE loads (a reinterpret_cast
would trip -Wcast-align=strict), use auto for a cast initialiser, add
parentheses to a mixed expression, and name bugprone-std-namespace-modification
in the NOLINTs of the tuple_size/tuple_element specialisations.
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* Fix clang-tidy 22 findings in unit-json_view.cpp and unit-json_view_builder.cpp
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* Avoid GCC useless-cast and strict-overflow warnings in unit-json_view.cpp
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* Index strings with size_t in the colliding-keys test (MSVC C4244 on Win32)
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* Make json_view.hpp pass include-what-you-use
ci_single_binaries runs IWYU with --error on every header. For json_view.hpp
it suggested adding <array> (std::array is used), the headers that json.hpp
already provides (abi_config, abi_macros, input_adapters, json_pointer,
cpp_future, string_concat, value_t, json_fwd), and <version> for
std::nullptr_t, and removing <cstddef>.
- include <array>
- keep <cstddef> (nullptr_t, size_t; IWYU attributes them to <version> and <cstring>)
- tell IWYU not to suggest the headers that json.hpp provides: the amalgamated
json_view.hpp only includes json.hpp, so including them here would duplicate
their definitions
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* Move the dump, comparison, and large-object tests to unit-json_view_dump.cpp
The dump and comparison tests moved to their own file in the dump pull
request; the hash index tests of this branch join them there.
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* Regenerate the amalgamated headers
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* Follow the renames from the review of the view builder
The review of #5620 renamed document_data's tape/tape_size/tape_cap to
nodes/node_count/node_capacity and made the decode arena a
std::vector<char>; adapt the code of this change to it.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* Rename slots in the object index for Qt compatibility
Qt defines slots as a macro, so a Qt header included before
json_view.hpp broke the declarations of the local variable (see #5865).
The test variable is renamed as well.
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* Address the review of the json_view object index and SIMD scan
From gregmarr's review of #5628:
- Docs and comments say that the hash index is one of the object's keys.
- object_index.hpp: conditional_static_cast for the hash, "slot" for the
table position, no flag for a degenerate table, and a static_assert
that the smallest indexed object is larger than the probe window.
- scan.hpp unrolls with NLOHMANN_VIEW_REPEAT_FIRST_8/SECOND_8.
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* Regenerate the amalgamated headers
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* Encode JSON_VIEW_NO_SIMD and JSON_VIEW_USE_SSSE3 in the ABI namespace
Both macros select between definitions of the same inline functions, so
translation units that disagree on them violated the ODR. Like the other
ABI-affecting macros, they now add a tag to the inline namespace (_vns and
_vssse3), and the docs replace the "Define consistently" warning with the
usual ABI compatibility note. From gregmarr's review of #5628.
nlohmann_json.natvis covers twice as many tags now, so it lists four times
as many namespaces (14.7 MB instead of 3.4 MB).
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* Regenerate the amalgamated headers
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* Do not include type_traits.hpp directly in the object index
json.hpp, which object_index.hpp already includes, provides it; included
directly, the json_view amalgamation (which only treats nlohmann/json.hpp
as external) copied the json internals into json_view.hpp a second time,
so the fuzzers, which include both single headers, failed with
redefinitions (make_void, integer_sequence, priority_tag, ...).
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* Compare keys with key_equals() in the object hash index
As the linear lookups do since the second review round of #5622.
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* Regenerate the amalgamated headers
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* Clean up README, contribution guide, and repository metadata
- REUSE.toml: fix the Hedley path and SPDX id (CC0-1.0), mark the docset
icons as the public-domain JSON logo
- CITATION.cff: v3.12.0 was released on 2025-04-11
- FILES.md: list all workflows, describe the Meson option defaults
- README: ctest -LE, table of contents, typos, stale Android/MinGW advice,
moved links, merge duplicate Thanks entries, list the analysis tools
used in CI
- CONTRIBUTING: iterative parser, json_literals.hpp is generated, links
- .gitignore: backups and release outputs; .gitattributes: mark
generated files
- labeler: label other build systems and .github documentation
- MODULE.bazel: add the module version
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* Clean up CI, CMake, Makefile, and Bazel files
- CMakeLists.txt: avoid VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL, which CMake < 3.7 lacks
- ci.cmake: test JSON_DisableTupleReferenceConversion in ci_cmake_flags,
remove unused variables and unreachable per-compiler targets, look up
Clang tools consistently, forward CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS to ci_module_cpp20,
format json_literals.hpp and remove backups in ci_test_amalgamation
- BUILD.bazel: add json_literals.hpp to the single-header target
- workflows: format json_literals.hpp before copying it, drop the obsolete
natvis --version plumbing, name natvis and macro_builder in failure
messages, drop the duplicate amalgamation job, install Valgrind only
where needed, republish docs on version bumps, fix stale names
- Makefile: complete .PHONY and help, check-amalgamation always restores
the checked-in files, natvis uses its own venv, macro_builder_check
installs astyle, clean removes the fuzzer binaries
- remove tools/amalgamate/config_json_view.json (json_view.hpp is not on
develop yet)
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* Fix inaccuracies in the documentation
- version history: json_base_class_t (3.11.3), JSON_HAS_CPP_11 (3.10.0),
JSON_HAS_RANGES exclusions, define-type macros, ABI tags
- releases: 3.12.0 raised the minimum CMake version
- from_*: the (ptr, len) overloads are deleted, not removed, in 4.0.0
- contains/count/find: document the deleted integral overloads
- add JSON_HAS_RANGE_VIEW_CONVERSION and list the JSON_HAS_* macros in
the macro overview
- mention BON8 and error_handler where binary formats are listed
- broken links, outdated URLs, warning count, Hunter v0.26.12
- copy_markdown_source hook: expand snippets in the Markdown copies
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* Pass /EHsc to the Windows C++20 module build
ci_module_cpp20 now forwards CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS to the module build. The
Windows workflow sets CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS, which replaces CMake's MSVC
defaults including /EHsc, so <chrono> failed with C4530 under /WX.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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* 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
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* 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.
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o For some unknown reason, the complexity of the benchmark platform
prevented some C++ compilers from generating optimal code, properly
reflective of the real performance in actual deployment.
o Added the json_benchmarks_simple target, which performs the same
suite of tests as json_benchmarks.
o Simplified the benchmark platform, and emit an "Average" TPS
(Transactions Per Second) value reflective of aggregate parse/output
performance.
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