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Niels Lohmann 679672c9af Merge branch 'json-view/16-view-simd' into json-view/19-edit-set
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-10 02:44:14 +02:00
Niels Lohmann a241f67eb1 Merge branch 'json-view/13-view-dump' into json-view/16-view-simd
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-10 02:44:12 +02:00
Niels Lohmann bae4148a78 Merge branch 'json-view/11-view-access' into json-view/13-view-dump
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-10 02:44:09 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 8d3272e93b Merge branch 'json-view/08-view-builder' into json-view/11-view-access
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-10 02:44:06 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 7ee91c7d91 Suppress Flawfinder's read() finding on the deleted overload
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-10 02:43:48 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 9144cd7bf0 Merge branch 'json-view/16-view-simd' into json-view/19-edit-set
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-10 01:50:10 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 7de40707dd Merge branch 'json-view/13-view-dump' into json-view/16-view-simd
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-10 01:41:21 +02:00
Niels Lohmann dd3d73a60b Merge branch 'json-view/11-view-access' into json-view/13-view-dump
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-10 01:38:19 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 558527941a 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.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
(cherry picked from commit 0effbaa7a2)
2026-10-10 01:23:31 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 0effbaa7a2 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.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-10 01:19:05 +02:00
Niels Lohmann a9ef628eb4 Fix the clang-tidy 22 findings in json_view and its tests
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-10 00:12:52 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 2474843c55 Make json_view.hpp pass include-what-you-use
Mark the includes that are needed by design (json.hpp, the macro
unscope, <tuple> for the tuple_size specialization), take size_t from
<cstring>, and drop the forward declaration of basic_json_document that
the friend declaration makes redundant.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-09 23:51:25 +02:00
Niels Lohmann ddd0423b14 Merge branch 'json-view/16-view-simd' into json-view/19-edit-set
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-09 23:33:56 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 42b5e4ac34 Merge branch 'json-view/13-view-dump' into json-view/16-view-simd
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-09 23:27:13 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 02f90bd307 Merge branch 'json-view/11-view-access' into json-view/13-view-dump
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-09 23:22:52 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 13d2b3e224 Return the first member of duplicate keys from lookups again
Looking up the last member of a duplicate key cannot stop at a match, so
every lookup scanned the whole object (1.6 to 3.4 times slower for small
objects). operator[](key), at, find, value, contains, count, and JSON
pointer resolution return the first member again, as yyjson and simdjson
do; materialize() and get<map>() keep the last value, as parse().

The documentation says so in the feature page and on each lookup page,
and explains how to get the value parse() would give. The integer index
templates and the discarded chaining of operator[] stay.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-09 23:20:51 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 915ac4bc8b Merge branch 'json-view/16-view-simd' into json-view/19-edit-set
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-09 17:22:43 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 66e875895f Merge branch 'json-view/13-view-dump' into json-view/16-view-simd
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-09 17:06:43 +02:00
Niels Lohmann bd0fc072fc Merge branch 'json-view/11-view-access' into json-view/13-view-dump
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-09 16:58:15 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 45045ebb6d Replace the removed operator bool of basic_json_view in the header and its tests
A view is tested with is_discarded(); the lookups in at(), value() and
contains(json_pointer) and the unit tests no longer rely on the explicit
conversion to bool.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-09 16:53:54 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 1d76bc9750 Merge branch 'json-view/08-view-builder' into json-view/11-view-access
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-09 16:47:20 +02:00
Niels Lohmann aef2873abf Update the json_view banner and type_error.319 for editable documents
The banner still described a read-only view, and the documentation of
type_error.319 listed set and push_back only, although insert rejects
binary values as well.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-09 16:31:00 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 79a51feb44 Set a null value below a pointer as basic_json does
set(json_pointer, value) turned a null parent into an object for every
last reference token, so "/a/0" and "/a/-" below {"a":null} made
{"a":{"0":1}}, where basic_json's operator[](json_pointer) makes an
array. A null parent now becomes an array for "-" and for digit tokens
(filled with nulls up to the index) and an object otherwise. An invalid
index is reported before the parent changes.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-09 16:30:58 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 0c76b316fc Align the banner comment of json_view.hpp
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-09 16:30:24 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 078903cbb9 State the exact input size limit of json_document
The check rejects inputs of 0xFFFFFFF0 bytes or more, but the exception
message and the documentation said 4 GiB. Name the limit once
(max_input_size), and state 4 GiB minus 16 bytes in the message and the
documentation. Test the limit with a container that only claims the size.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-09 16:30:00 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 14afaca083 Delete json_document::root() on temporary documents
auto v = json_document::parse(text).root() compiled and left the view
dangling. Delete the overload for rvalue documents, take a named document
in the tests, and document the lifetime rule.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-09 16:22:39 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 7beac68df7 Remove the conversion to bool from json_view
explicit operator bool meant "refers to a value", which silently differs
from what a basic_json converts to. Use !v.is_discarded() instead.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-09 16:18:50 +02:00
Niels Lohmann c7df23666f Make view lookups last-wins and chained access safe
* Lookups (operator[], at, find, contains, count, value, JSON pointers)
  return the last member of a duplicate key, as materialize() and
  parse() keep it.
* operator[] on a discarded view returns a discarded view instead of
  throwing, so v["a"]["b"] is safe for a missing "a".
* operator[] and at() take any integer type (not only int and size_t),
  fixing ambiguous calls with unsigned, long, std::int64_t, ...
* Fix the operator[] documentation, which claimed a discarded view for
  a type mismatch where type_error.305 is thrown.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-09 16:11:33 +02:00
Niels Lohmann de39340832 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.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-09 16:11:27 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 2ba331e4d0 Size the dump buffer of a small value by its own extent
The source extent of a value was read from the next node, falling back to the rest of the document when that node held a decoded string. dump() of a small value could thus allocate a buffer as large as the document. Skip a few such nodes, cap the fallback estimate, and shrink a buffer that is much larger than its output.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-09 16:11:14 +02:00
Niels Lohmann c006db93d4 Reject integer lengths in json_document::parse
parse(ptr, len) compiled: len converted to allow_exceptions, and ptr was
read as a C string, past the end of a buffer without a terminating NUL.
Delete the overloads of parse, parse_copy, accept, and read that take an
integer other than bool where the flags are expected.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-09 16:10:11 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 2105149798 Fix old clang and MSVC C4127 in editable json documents
Value-initialize the const std::less in find_parent (clang 3.4/3.6 do not
implement DR 253), and test the Editable template argument through a
function to avoid MSVC C4127.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-08 16:22:47 +02:00
Niels Lohmann c6ee5a64be Add editable json_documents: set, push_back, insert, and erase
basic_json_document gets a second template parameter, Editable
(false by default), plus the aliases json_editable_document,
json_editable_view, ordered_json_editable_document and
ordered_json_editable_view.

Editable documents can change values and structure without
rewriting the source text: set()/push_back() on values, keys,
array indices and JSON pointers; insert() before an array
element; erase() of an object key, array index or JSON pointer.

New values and element sequences go into edit storage that the
document owns and never moves, so views keep referring to their
value across edits and a parsed node never moves. Read-only
documents walk the plain node array and are unaffected.

Strings are checked for UTF-8 on entry, so dump() of an editable
document never throws type_error.316. Binary values cannot be
stored (type_error.319).

A seeded differential test applies random edits to an editable
document and to the equivalent ordered_json and compares both
after every step.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-07 16:42:38 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 8daec2b596 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>
2026-10-07 16:42:32 +02:00
Niels Lohmann da1ca7f9d7 Add dump() and comparisons to json_view
Add basic_json_view::dump() and the comparison operators, and read
floats from the parser's digit layout instead of rescanning the
token.

dump(indent, indent_char, ensure_ascii, number_format) writes a
value the way ordered_json::parse(text).dump() writes it for the
same arguments: members in document order, all of them should a
key occur more than once; strings escaped by the same rules, using
the library's scanning kernels; floats written with the library's
to_chars conversion, so the output equals basic_json's byte for
byte; integers copied from the source, where they are already
canonical, except -0, which parse() reads as 0. There is no
error_handler argument, because the view only holds valid UTF-8.
number_format::source copies numbers exactly as they appear in the
source (e.g. "1.50", "1E2", "-0"), which basic_json cannot provide.
operator<< takes the indentation from the stream width, as for
basic_json. The writer walks iteratively, so nesting depth is
limited by memory only.

operator== and operator!= compare two views, or a view and a
basic_json value in either order, by the rules basic_json's
operator== uses: numbers compare by value across their types,
objects compare by their members with duplicate keys resolved as
parse() resolves them, member order matters only where the object
type keeps one, and discarded views compare as discarded basic_json
values do, including under JSON_USE_LEGACY_DISCARDED_VALUE_COMPARISON.
Nothing is materialized except single scalars.

While parsing, the view now records where the integer digits, the
fraction digits, and the exponent of a float token are, so floats
and doubles with at most 19 digits are read from that layout with
the library's decimal_to_float() instead of rescanning the token.
Both round correctly, so the values are those of parse(). get<double>(),
materialize(), dump(), and the comparisons all use it.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-07 16:42:29 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 77acd4563c Add element access, iteration, values, and JSON pointers to json_view
Give basic_json_view the read-only access functions of basic_json:
operator[] and at() with keys and indices, front()/back(), find(),
contains(), count(), begin()/end() and cbegin()/cend(), items()
with structured bindings from C++17 on, and type_name().

Exceptions have the ids and messages of the const functions of
basic_json. Where basic_json has undefined behavior the view
answers safely: operator[] with a missing key or an out-of-range
index returns a discarded view, and front()/back() of an empty
container throw invalid_iterator.214. Objects are iterated in
document order, and all members are visited; duplicate-key lookups
find the first member (as yyjson and simdjson do), while parse(),
materialize(), and the map conversions keep the last value, as
parse() does. Keys of up to 16 bytes are compared with two
overlapping loads.

Add value conversions: get<T>()/get_to() for arithmetic types,
bool, nullptr_t, strings (std::basic_string copied,
string_view_t without a copy), BasicJsonType, views, std::vector,
and maps with string keys; get_string() for the string without a
copy; number_token() for the number exactly as written in the
source; value() with keys and JSON pointers; and operator[]/at()/
contains() with JSON pointers. Everything else, including types
with from_json(), goes through materialize() of that subtree.
get<T>() of arithmetic types is inlined down to the conversion, so
reading an integer needs no call.

detail::json_pointer_access exposes a pointer's reference tokens
to code outside basic_json.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-07 16:42:26 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 759dd2e1b1 Add json_document and json_view: node index, parser, and document
Add json_document and json_view, a read-only, zero-copy index of a
JSON text, as the first public slice of the zero-copy view (#5295).

A parse produces a flat array of 16-byte nodes in document order,
one per value and one per object key. Strings stay in the source
text; escaped strings are decoded into an arena. Integers are
converted while their digits are in the cache; floats keep only
their digit layout and are converted on read. Containers store the
size of their subtree, so a reader can step over one in constant
time. A document makes a handful of allocations, however many
values it has.

The parser accepts exactly what json::parse accepts, with every
combination of ignore_comments and ignore_trailing_commas, with and
without a trailing NUL, and under JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING. It is
portable C++11 and does not depend on byte order.

basic_json_document adds parse, parse_copy, accept, read (reuses a
document's memory), root, is_discarded, source, owns_source,
node_count, memory_usage, and shrink_to_fit. basic_json_view adds
type, the is_* queries, operator bool, size, empty, materialize,
and source_offset. A parse error throws the same exception
basic_json::parse would throw for the same input, message and
position included.

detail::abi_config keeps JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING and
JSON_USE_LEGACY_DISCARDED_VALUE_COMPARISON readable after json.hpp
undefines them, in the ABI namespace so they always match the
basic_json in use.

A NUL byte that ends a // comment is the end of the input, as in
parse() since #5696.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-07 16:42:22 +02:00