The community-maintained clang-tidy check
modernize-nlohmann-json-explicit-conversions rewrites implicit
conversions into explicit get<T>() calls, which is exactly the
preparation the docs ask for ahead of implicit conversions being
switched off by default. Mention it on the JSON_USE_IMPLICIT_CONVERSIONS
page and in the migration guide, as promised in discussion #4610.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* 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>
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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closes#3106. set(JSON_Diagnostics ON) before find_package() has no
effect on a package built and installed elsewhere (Homebrew, vcpkg, a
system package, etc.) -- the compile definition is baked into the
exported nlohmann_jsonTargets.cmake at install time and the generated
config script never re-reads that variable. Verified empirically
against the real Homebrew-installed 3.12.0 package: the exported
target carries a fixed $<$<BOOL:OFF>:JSON_DIAGNOSTICS=1>, and the
suggested set(JSON_Diagnostics ON) snippet produces no change in
exception output.
Documents the actual working fix (overriding the imported target's
INTERFACE_COMPILE_DEFINITIONS property after find_package()) and the
multi-target "JSON_DIAGNOSTICS redefined" pitfall reported earlier in
the issue thread.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* 📝 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>
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* Add implementation to retrieve start and end positions of json during parse
* Add more unit tests and add start/stop parsing for arrays
* Add raw value for all types
* Add more tests and fix compiler warning
* Amalgamate
* Fix CLang GCC warnings
* Fix error in build
* Style using astyle 3.1
* Fix whitespace changes
* revert
* more whitespace reverts
* Address PR comments
* Fix failing issues
* More whitespace reverts
* Address remaining PR comments
* Address comments
* Switch to using custom base class instead of default basic_json
* Adding a basic using for a json using the new base class. Also address PR comments and fix CI failures
* Address decltype comments
* Diagnostic positions macro (#4)
Co-authored-by: Sush Shringarputale <sushring@linux.microsoft.com>
* Fix missed include deletion
* Add docs and address other PR comments (#5)
* Add docs and address other PR comments
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* Address new PR comments and fix CI tests for documentation
* Update documentation based on feedback (#6)
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* Address std::size_t and other comments
* Fix new CI issues
* Fix lcov
* Improve lcov case with update to handle_diagnostic_positions call for discarded values
* Fix indentation of LCOV_EXCL_STOP comments
* fix amalgamation astyle issue
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* Move UDLs into nlohmann::literals::json_literals namespace
* Add 'using namespace' to unit tests
* Add 'using namespace' to examples
* Add 'using namespace' to README
* Move UDL mkdocs pages out of basic_json/
* Update documentation
* Update docset index
* Add JSON_GlobalUDLs CMake option
* Add unit test
* Build examples without global UDLs
* Add CI target
Niels Lohmann
Luke Banicevic
Klaim (Joël Lamotte)
Andy Choi
DmitriBogdanov
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Florian Albrechtskirchinger