- binary_reserve_hint(): the 4-bytes-per-element estimate over-reserved by up
to 4x for arrays of small scalars (CBOR encodes 0..23 in one byte), and the
returned vector kept that capacity. Make the hint a strict lower bound on the
encoded size instead, which also removes the 1 MiB clamp whose branch no test
could reach (the largest container in the suite has 65793 elements).
- Guard the -Wduplicated-branches pragma with __GNUC__ >= 7. The warning does
not exist before GCC 7, so naming it made GCC 4.8/4.9/5/6 - which the CI
matrix still builds - warn under -Wpragmas on every including translation
unit, breaking downstream -Werror builds.
- Constrain the adapter constructor of binary_writer with the enable_if its
documentation already claimed, so a writer over some other sink type is no
longer advertised as constructible from an output adapter.
- Let output_vector_adapter wrap output_vector_sink rather than duplicating the
append logic, so the type-erased and templated paths share one implementation.
- Collapse the three copies of the memcpy/byte_swap/memcpy dance into a single
byte_swap_buffer() helper, and add the MSVC _byteswap_* intrinsics so MSVC no
longer falls back to the scalar shuffle this change exists to eliminate.
- Add a vector_writer() helper for the five vector-returning to_* overloads
instead of spelling out the writer type at each call site, and drop a dead
default member initializer on output_adapter_sink.
- New tests: the vector sink and the adapter sink must produce identical bytes
for every format (the two to_* overloads no longer delegate to each other and
could otherwise drift), and binary_reserve_hint() must never exceed the size
actually written.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
The vector-returning to_cbor/to_msgpack/to_ubjson/to_bjdata/to_bson grew
the output buffer purely by geometric reallocation. Reserving an estimate
up front avoids the early reallocations, which is the dominant per-byte
cost for array/object-heavy output.
The estimate (binary_reserve_hint) is deliberately conservative and safe
against untrusted input: it consults only the top-level element count
(O(1), no walk of the DOM), guards the multiplication against overflow,
and clamps the result to a fixed 1 MiB ceiling, so a large or hostile DOM
can never force an oversized allocation here. The buffer still grows
geometrically past the hint, so an underestimate only costs a few later
reallocations; scalars/strings/binary are written in one shot and get no
hint. Reserving capacity does not change the bytes produced.
Throughput (g++/clang -O3, vs the previous commit):
cbor int array +10% / +13%
cbor object array +20% / +38%
Output is byte-for-byte identical to develop across the binary
differential corpus.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XAYM1qhSA2FDaDcGfPW3fG
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
write_number() reordered multi-byte numbers for the big-endian formats
(CBOR/MessagePack/UBJSON) with std::reverse over the byte array. GCC
lowered only some sizes to a bswap; clang kept a scalar byte shuffle
(0 bswap instructions in the CBOR number path). Replace the reverse with
size-dispatched __builtin_bswap16/32/64 helpers (portable shift fallback
for other compilers; std::reverse retained for exotic sizes such as a
long double number_float_t).
Codegen: the CBOR number path now emits bswap on both compilers
(gcc 2 -> 16, clang 0 -> 4). Output is byte-for-byte identical to the
previous implementation across the binary differential corpus.
Throughput (isolated vs the std::reverse version, best of 9):
CBOR int64 array gcc +7% clang +10%
CBOR uint16 array gcc +27% clang flat
Modest but consistent on number-dense encodings; negligible on
string/blob-heavy output, as expected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XAYM1qhSA2FDaDcGfPW3fG
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Four CI jobs failed on the initial commit; all are addressed here without
changing any output (binary encodings remain byte-for-byte identical to
develop across the differential corpus):
1. ci_test_gcc / cuda (-Werror=duplicated-branches): for number_float_t ==
float, static_cast<float>(n) is the identity, so write_compact_float's
two branches are intentionally identical. Once the concrete vector sink
is inlined, GCC constant-folds and diagnoses this (the type-erased path
hid it behind a non-inlined virtual call). Silence -Wduplicated-branches
for GCC (clang has no such warning) alongside the existing -Wfloat-equal
pragma.
2. ci_static_analysis_clang (UBSan nonnull-attribute): binary_writer passes
a null pointer with length 0 for empty strings/binary. output_vector_sink
/ output_adapter_sink declared write_characters JSON_HEDLEY_NON_NULL, so
the sanitizer flagged the (harmless) zero-length call once the sink was
called directly rather than through the attribute-free virtual base. Drop
the attribute from both sinks, matching the pre-existing behavior.
3. ci_cpplint (build/include_what_you_use): output_adapter_sink uses
std::move; add #include <utility>.
4. ci_cuda_example (nvcc 11.8): NVCC's front end rejects the default
template argument on the binary_writer alias template. Revert the alias
to its original single-parameter form (relying on binary_writer's own
defaulted OutputSinkType) and spell out the full type in the vector-sink
convenience functions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XAYM1qhSA2FDaDcGfPW3fG
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
to_cbor/to_msgpack/to_ubjson/to_bjdata/to_bson wrote every byte through
output_adapter_t, a shared_ptr<output_adapter_protocol> whose
write_character/write_characters are virtual. Unlike the lexer (templated
on a concrete InputAdapterType), the binary writer never got that
treatment, so binary output paid a vtable lookup per byte and a
make_shared per call.
Template binary_writer on an OutputSinkType and give it two concrete,
non-virtual sinks:
- output_vector_sink: appends straight into a std::vector (push_back /
insert), used by the vector-returning to_* convenience functions. No
vtable, no shared_ptr; the writes inline.
- output_adapter_sink: forwards to a type-erased output_adapter_t, so the
existing to_*(j, output_adapter) overloads (streams, strings, custom
adapters) keep working exactly as before -- one virtual call each,
unchanged.
binary_writer keeps a convenience constructor taking output_adapter_t
(building the default output_adapter_sink), so the adapter overloads are
untouched; only the convenience functions switch to the vector sink. The
friend declaration and the basic_json binary_writer alias gain the new
(defaulted) template parameter.
Output is byte-for-byte identical: verified across ~3000 randomized
values plus curated edge cases (all scalar widths, strings with invalid
UTF-8, binary, nested arrays/objects) for CBOR, MessagePack, UBJSON (both
size/type settings), BJData, and BSON, plus the output_adapter path, in
C++11/17/20. Warning-clean under clang -Weverything and the gcc pedantic
set; clang-tidy clean on the changed headers; make check-amalgamation
clean.
Throughput (g++ -O3, vs develop): scalar-dense binary output such as
integer arrays ~1.4x; many small to_cbor calls ~1.04x (DOM traversal
bound); string/blob-heavy output unchanged (already bulk-bound). No
workload regressed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XAYM1qhSA2FDaDcGfPW3fG
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
The block documenting get_char and tag_handler sat above
get_cbor_negative_integer(), which takes neither, so Doxygen attached it
there and parse_cbor_internal() was left undocumented.
Comment placement only.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry <45711841+darkdi@users.noreply.github.com>
The diagnostic position of a string value was derived by subtracting the
parsed value's length from the end position. Escape sequences make the
source token longer than the value it parses to, so the reported start
position landed inside the string, one byte off per escape sequence:
input: {"a":"\n\n\n\n\n\n"}
start_pos() == 11, so the reported range covered n\n\n\n"
instead of the documented "\n\n\n\n\n\n"
This contradicts the documented behavior of start_pos(), which is the
position of the opening quote, and it also corrupted the "(bytes N-M)"
part of JSON_DIAGNOSTICS exception messages. Strings with multi-byte
UTF-8 but no escapes were unaffected, which is why this went unnoticed.
Record the offset of the token in the lexer when it starts scanning and
use that, instead of reconstructing it from the parsed value. Booleans,
null and numbers already reported correct positions and are unchanged.
The new lexer member and accessor are compiled only when
JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS is enabled, which is already part of the ABI
tag, so the default build is unaffected.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
The comment asked whether the no-op marker 'N' may be ignored when a
string is read. It may not: at that point the next byte must be a string
length type specification, and 'N' is not one. No-ops at positions where
a value may start are already consumed by the callers through
get_ignore_noop(), so nothing is lost by not skipping them here.
Replace the TODO with a comment stating that, and add regression tests
pinning both directions: a no-op is accepted at top level (also
repeated), before and after an array element, and before an object key,
between key and value, and before the closing brace of an object of
unknown size; it is rejected where a length type specification is
expected, i.e. after the 'S' marker of a string value and as the key
length of an object of known size.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* Do not write BJData ndarrays whose size overflows std::size_t
write_bjdata_ndarray() multiplied the _ArraySize_ dimensions into a
std::size_t without checking for overflow. A product that wraps around
to a value that happens to match the size of _ArrayData_ passed the
length check, and the writer emitted an ndarray header announcing an
element count that cannot be represented:
{"_ArrayType_":"uint8","_ArraySize_":[9223372036854775808,2],"_ArrayData_":[]}
was encoded as 5b 24 55 23 5b 4d 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 69 02 5d, an
ndarray of 2^64 elements followed by no data. Reading that back throws
out_of_range.408 ("excessive ndarray size caused overflow"), so to_bjdata
produced output that from_bjdata rejects. This is reachable by parsing
untrusted JSON and re-encoding it as BJData.
Mirror the overflow check the binary reader already performs, and also
reject a single dimension that does not fit into std::size_t, which the
previous cast silently truncated where std::size_t is narrower than 64
bits. Such objects now fall back to a plain object encoding, which is
what the surrounding type and length validation already does for
annotations it cannot represent, and they round-trip unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* Document when to_bjdata converts a JData annotation to an ND-array
The BJData page described the 1-D vector case as the only situation in
which an object carrying _ArrayType_/_ArraySize_/_ArrayData_ is not
written as a compact ND-array. The writer has always had several other
fallbacks -- an unknown _ArrayType_, a dimension that is not a
non-negative integer, an _ArrayData_ whose length does not match the
product of the dimensions, and elements that are not numbers of the
annotated kind -- all of which cause the value to be serialized as a
regular JSON object instead.
Spell out the conditions, including the size-overflow check added in the
preceding commit, so the documented behavior matches the implementation.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Linking test-regression2_cpp20 intermittently fails with
unit-regression2.cpp.obj:(.debug_info+0x16): relocation truncated to
fit: IMAGE_REL_AMD64_SECREL against `.debug_line'
The failure moves between matrix entries from run to run, and the same
commit can pass and fail on consecutive runs, so it is the size of the
debug sections rather than any one Clang version.
The jobs only build and run the tests, so override CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG
to drop the default -g. Everything else about the Debug build is
unchanged: no optimization flag is added and NDEBUG stays undefined, so
JSON_ASSERT remains active.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Conversions whose element count is fixed by the destination C++ type --
`std::pair`, `std::tuple`, `std::array<T, N>`, C arrays, and
`std::map`/`std::unordered_map` with a non-string key -- read exactly the
elements they need via `at` and never compare the JSON array's size to
that number. Excess elements are silently discarded, while a shortfall
throws `out_of_range.401` rather than a `type_error`. Neither direction
was documented in `conversions.md`, `get.md`, or `from_json.md`.
The existing warning covered only `std::array` and stated that a too-short
JSON array leaves the remaining elements default-constructed with no
exception thrown; that is not what happens. Generalize it to all
fixed-size destinations and correct the shortfall direction.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* docs: document the complexity of ordered_map operations
ordered_map stores its elements in a std::vector in insertion order and
has no lookup index, so emplace, operator[], at, find, count, erase, and
insert are all linear scans. The documentation stated no complexity for
any operation, neither in ordered_map.md nor in ordered_json.md.
Add a per-operation complexity table and note the consequence: building
or parsing an ordered_json object of n keys is O(n^2). Measured with
-O2 -DNDEBUG for parsing a flat object of n keys, ordered_json is 5x
slower than json at n=2000 and 54x slower at n=16000, with the timings
quadrupling per doubling of n. Cross-reference the table from
ordered_json.md and from the object order page, which recommends
ordered_json without mentioning the cost.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* docs: move the Complexity section after Member functions
scripts/check_structure.py enforces a fixed section order for pages under
docs/mkdocs/docs/api, in which Complexity comes after Member functions.
The section had been placed right after Iterator invalidation, which made
ci_test_build_documentation fail with structure/section_order.
No content change beyond the move; the table columns are realigned to the
narrower content.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* 📝 Document exceptions newly thrown by the binary-format hardening
A round of binary-format input validation (#5274, #5284, #5287, #5332)
added new failure modes without updating exceptions.md, and left two
descriptions factually narrower than the code:
- parse_error.110 said "CBOR or MessagePack"; BSON and UBJSON also
throw it. Generalized, and added the BSON EOF example (#5332).
- parse_error.112: added the BSON document-size mismatch example
(#5287).
- parse_error.113 said "while parsing a map key", but its own existing
UBJSON char example already contradicted that. Broadened to cover
invalid length specifications, and added the negative-string-length
example (#5284).
- out_of_range.408 said "of an UBJSON array or object"; CBOR now throws
it too (#5274). Generalized and added both CBOR examples.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* 📝 Correct which types may be referenced in a tuple extraction
The note added in #5271 said a referenced type must be one the library
stores "or an arithmetic type it can convert to/from". The parenthetical
is wrong: is_compatible_reference_type requires an exact match against
the stored types, so std::tuple<int&> is rejected by static_assert even
though int converts fine as a value. Only the value case is permissive.
Spell out the eight admissible types, give the int& counter-example, and
separate the reference restriction from by-value conversion.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Follow-up to #5342, which fixed the parser callback leaving a discarded
member behind when an array or a value under an object key was rejected.
The documentation of parser_callback_t only stated that discarded values
in structured types are skipped, without saying that this covers object
parents and that the key is removed along with the value, so there was no
way to tell the fixed behavior from the buggy one.
Spell out the discarding rules, add an example that exercises the cases
the fix repaired, and correct the return value description: a discarded
top-level value is replaced by null, not by "an empty discarded object".
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* docs: use HTTPS for the astyle and cppcheck links in README
Both links were still `http://`. `astyle.sourceforge.net` serves HTTPS
directly; `cppcheck.sourceforge.net` redirects to
`https://cppcheck.sourceforge.io`, which is also the URL already used in
`docs/mkdocs/docs/community/quality_assurance.md`, so the redirect is
skipped here.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* CI: suppress -Wc2y-extensions for Clang
Clang 22.1 (now shipped by silkeh/clang:latest) diagnoses __COUNTER__ as a
C2y extension, and does so in C++ mode as well. Under -Weverything -Werror
this breaks every ci_test_clang_cxx* / ci_test_clang_libcxx_cxx* target,
independently of the code under test.
The library itself does not use __COUNTER__; all diagnostics originate in
vendored Doctest (DOCTEST_ANONYMOUS, used by TEST_CASE and SECTION).
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* docs: document RFC 8259 / JSONTestSuite compliance and parse() vs operator>> strictness
The compliance story lived only in tests/src/unit-testsuites.cpp, so
drive-by comparisons kept claiming the library "does not fully pass
JSONTestSuite". Make it discoverable:
- README: add a "Standards compliance" note stating that both nst
JSONTestSuite revisions run in CI, that all mandatory y_/n_ cases pass
through the strict parse() entry point, and listing the deliberate
implementation-defined i_ choices (unbounded nesting, silent BOM
stripping, noncharacters forwarded, strict rejection of invalid UTF-8
and lone surrogates, out_of_range.406 on numeric overflow).
- features/parsing: add a "Strictness and trailing data" section
documenting that parse() is strict and rejects trailing data while
operator>> follows relaxed iostream semantics (parses one value and
leaves the stream positioned after it) -- the single place a naive
test yields a "non-compliant" result.
Documentation only; no parser behavior change. Closes#5290.
Signed-off-by: manon <youdie006@users.noreply.github.com>
* docs: correct test-data vendoring and parse()/operator>> claims per review
- README: the JSONTestSuite data is downloaded from nlohmann/json_test_data at
configure time, not vendored/committed; say so.
- README: only the updated suite runs y_ and n_ cases through strict parse();
the original suite's y_ cases go through operator>>. Narrow the claim.
- parsing/index.md and operator_gtgt.md: note that operator>> consumes a number's
terminating byte, so concatenated numbers must be whitespace-separated (1 2
works, 1true does not); structural and literal values are unaffected.
Signed-off-by: manon <youdie006@users.noreply.github.com>
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Signed-off-by: manon <youdie006@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: manon <youdie006@users.noreply.github.com>
is_comparable used a flat && chain to both exclude json_pointer/string
comparisons (added for #4621) and check whether Compare(A, B) is well-formed.
Naming std::is_constructible<decltype(...)> as a later operand of that chain
still causes the decltype to be substituted regardless of the first
operand's value, since the operands aren't lazily deferred like
std::conjunction would defer them. That instantiates the transparent
std::equal_to<>::operator() used by ordered_json, whose noexcept-specifier
evaluates the deprecated json_pointer/string operator==, which Clang (unlike
GCC in this case) warns about even though the result is discarded.
Split is_comparable so the Compare(A, B) checks live in a separate helper
that is only referenced from the specialization selected when
is_json_pointer_of is false, so the decltype is never written when A/B are
a json_pointer/string pair, regardless of compiler.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <niels.lohmann@gmail.com>
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>
* reject CBOR array/map length equal to the indefinite-length marker
Signed-off-by: Angadi Yashaswini <angadi@digiscrypt.com>
* reject CBOR lengths that do not fit in std::size_t via value_in_range_of
Signed-off-by: Angadi Yashaswini <angadi@digiscrypt.com>
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Signed-off-by: Angadi Yashaswini <angadi@digiscrypt.com>
This adds a std::isfinite check to the UBJSON floating-point parsing path, throwing out_of_range.406 on overflow. This makes the UBJSON parser's behavior consistent with the normal JSON parser. Fixes#5322.
Signed-off-by: AJ369ninja <abhishek.j@iitg.ac.in>
Co-authored-by: AJ369ninja <abhishek.j@iitg.ac.in>
* validate ndarray element types in write_bjdata_ndarray
Signed-off-by: Angadi Yashaswini <angadi@digiscrypt.com>
* read ndarray elements through get<> instead of a fixed union member
_ArrayType_ names the wire type, not how the value is stored: parsing
keeps a non-negative integer as number_unsigned while the C++ API keeps
an int literal as number_integer. Selecting the union member from the
type marker therefore reads the inactive alternative for one of the two,
so read through get<> instead, which dispatches on the active member.
Also reject a negative _ArraySize_ entry, which is not a usable
dimension, and cover the parse-built path in the tests.
Signed-off-by: Angadi Yashaswini <angadi@digiscrypt.com>
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Signed-off-by: Angadi Yashaswini <angadi@digiscrypt.com>
- warn about BSON marker 0x11 interoperability in both directions
- explain subtype-less binary normalization to subtype 0x00
- add a round-trip test for binary values without a subtype
Signed-off-by: YingqiDuan <141370165+YingqiDuan@users.noreply.github.com>
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