Lookups in objects are linear, as for ordered_json. Objects with 128
members or more now get a hash table after parsing (open addressing; the
first of duplicate keys is kept, as for the linear search), so that
operator[], at(), find(), contains(), count(), value(), and JSON pointers
take constant time on average in them; the idea of switching to a hash
table for large objects is Boost.JSON's. The parser notes such objects when
it closes them (out of line, so that the parse loop only has a call for
it), and the object node keeps the number of its table.
Looking up each key of an object with 10,000 members: 59.8 ms -> 0.16 ms.
Parsing (json_document::parse, best of 7, separate processes): most files
within 1%; canada +5%, mesh.pretty +3%, citm +3%.
Tests: objects with 127, 128, 129, and 10,000 members (escaped, empty,
and duplicate keys, missing keys, comparisons), nested large objects, and
documents reused with read().
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Hold the UTF-8 lookup tables in std::array, compute the length of a
sequence without nested conditionals, and use std::array in the tests.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Long runs of string bytes are scanned 16 at a time with NEON (AArch64, with
GCC and Clang) and SSE2 (x86-64): both belong to the baseline instruction
sets. A signed compare with 0x20 finds control characters and non-ASCII
bytes at once. Keys keep 16 table checks before the vector loop (their
lengths repeat from record to record, so the branches predict well);
string values have 8, as their lengths vary more.
Non-ASCII text is validated 16 bytes at a time with the "lookup4" check of
simdjson (J. Keiser and D. Lemire, "Validating UTF-8 In Less Than One
Instruction Per Byte", 2021): with NEON, and on x86-64 with SSSE3 if
JSON_VIEW_USE_SSSE3 is defined (SSSE3 is not part of x86-64, and the code
must not depend on the flags of a translation unit). JSON_VIEW_NO_SIMD
selects the portable code. The vector code sits in
detail/view/simd.hpp; the same input is accepted either way.
json_document::parse, best of 7 runs in separate processes (M1 Max):
poet.json (CJK text) -72%, random.json -25%, twitter.json -22%,
gsoc-2018.json -20%, semanticscholar -19%, github_events -11%,
apache_builds -9.5%, canada/citm -5/-6%; lottie +4%, tree-pretty +2.5%.
Tests: every two-byte sequence and three- and four-byte sequences with
continuation bytes at the edges of their ranges, at every offset around
the vector blocks of keys and values, cut short, and long runs of text
with a damaged byte, against json::accept and json::parse. CMake builds
the parser tests again with JSON_VIEW_NO_SIMD, and on x86-64 with
JSON_VIEW_USE_SSSE3 and -mssse3; the macros are documented.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
A workflow runs compare.py with pinned downloads on GitHub-hosted
Ubuntu runners and shows the results as the job summary and as an
artifact: started by hand (workflow_dispatch: x86-64 or AArch64, GCC or
Clang), or when a pull request gets the label "benchmark" (both
architectures, GCC). The label trigger gives numbers before the
workflow is on the default branch, which workflow_dispatch needs.
Shared runners are noisy, so the numbers show where json_view stands on
another architecture; published numbers still need a quiet machine.
compare.py takes the CPU name from lscpu where /proc/cpuinfo has none
(AArch64 Linux), and falls back to the architecture. Checked in Linux
containers (AArch64, Clang 15 and GCC 9, offline with the pinned
archives).
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
compare.py --download now checks the SHA-256 of the yyjson 0.13.0,
simdjson 4.6.11, and Boost 1.92.0 archives. It unpacks each archive
once (Boost's directory is boost_1_92_0) and, where Python supports it,
with the 'data' filter.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
tests/benchmarks/json_view/ holds the comparison with other libraries,
which is not built by CMake or run by CI:
- bench_view.cpp: parse, traverse, select, and dump of twitter,
citm_catalog, canada, jeopardy, a single tweet, and a JSON-RPC request,
with json_view, yyjson, simdjson (DOM and On-Demand), Boost.JSON, and
json::parse; all engines must agree on every document before anything
is timed, and run interleaved in every round
- bench_corpus.cpp: parse, traverse, and dump of any list of files
- compare.py: builds both against include/ with the libraries of the
system (or pinned downloads), runs them, and writes the results with
what is needed to reproduce them (date, commit, CPU, OS, compiler,
flags, library versions) to results/<date>-<host>.md and .csv; only the
Python 3 standard library is used
- README.md: how to run it, what is measured, and which features the
engines have, so the numbers can be read correctly
Boost.JSON is optional (JSON_VIEW_BENCH_BOOST).
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
The parser records where the integer digits, the fraction digits, and the
exponent of a float token are. For doubles with at most 19 digits, the
value is now read from that layout: the digits eight at a time, without
scanning the token, and rounded with Clinger's fast path where both
operands are exact, else with the Eisel-Lemire algorithm (which needs no
fallback for up to 19 digits). Both round correctly, so the values are
those of parse(); other tokens and types keep the library's conversion.
get<double>(), materialize(), dump(), and comparisons use it. Traversing
canada.json (111,000 floats, every number converted): 0.53 -> 0.86 GB/s.
Tests add tokens around the limits (19 and 20 digits, 2^53, 10^22) to the
bit-for-bit comparison with parse().
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Separate the comparison of discarded values from the other types, so
that the conditional chain has no repeated branch bodies, and mark
the deliberate comparisons of views with empty containers in the
tests.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
- API pages for operator== and operator!= of basic_json_view, linked
both ways with the basic_json pages
- the feature page and the class overview list the comparisons
- the examples show when the view helps: detecting a changed document
without building json values
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
basic_json_view gains operator== and operator!= with other views and with
basic_json values. Two views are equal if the values parse() would
produce for them are equal by basic_json's operator==: numbers compare by
value across their types, and objects by their members, with duplicate
keys resolved as parse() resolves them (the last value, at the position of
the first key). Objects are compared in member order if the object type
keeps an order (ordered_json), by key otherwise, as basic_json does.
Discarded views compare as discarded basic_json values do, which follows
JSON_USE_LEGACY_DISCARDED_VALUE_COMPARISON. Nothing is materialized except
single numbers, and the walk is iterative.
Tests compare the results for pairs of 1,200 generated documents (also
written differently: sorted keys, canonical numbers) with those of
basic_json, for json and ordered_json, plus numbers, duplicate keys,
member order, discarded values, and 100,000 levels of nesting.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
The output buffer initializes its members in the initializer list, and the
escaping has no nested conditional operators; the test marks a fixed seed.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
- API pages for dump, number_format, and operator<< of basic_json_view,
linked both ways with the basic_json pages
- the feature page describes document order and number_format::source
- the examples show when the view helps: forwarding part of a message
and writing numbers exactly as they were read
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
basic_json_view::dump(indent, indent_char, ensure_ascii, number_format)
writes the text of a value as 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 and with the
library's scanning kernels, floats with the library's conversion, and
integers copied from the source, where they are canonical except "-0".
With number_format::source, numbers are copied as they appear in the
source ("1.50", "1E2", "-0", all digits of long integers). operator<<
takes the indentation from the stream width, as for basic_json.
The writer (detail/view/serializer.hpp) writes through a raw pointer into
a string sized from the source extent of the value, and walks the index
iteratively, so the nesting depth is limited by memory only.
Tests compare the output of 2,000 generated documents with
ordered_json::dump() for several indentations and ensure_ascii, strings
with every kind of escape, numbers (5,000 random doubles, float as
number_float_t), duplicate keys, 100,000 levels of nesting, and streams.
ViewDump joins the benchmarks.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
get<T>() of arithmetic types is inlined down to the conversion, so that
its checks of the node kind merge with those of the caller, and reading
an integer needs no call. Traversing every value: citm_catalog -6%,
marine_ik -5%, numbers and twitter -3%, mesh -2.5%, canada -1% (and
more above the float conversion from the digit layout: citm_catalog
-14%, marine_ik -11%).
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
get_string() and number_token() return braced lists; the test compares
floats by their bit patterns instead of with memcmp, uses std::any_of, and
marks a fixed seed, a default member initializer (needed by GCC's
-Weffc++), and a string search.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
- API pages for get, get_to, get_string, number_token, and value of
basic_json_view; JSON pointer overloads of operator[], at, and
contains; links both ways with the basic_json pages
- the feature page describes which conversions copy nothing
- the examples show when the view helps: strings without copies, numbers
exactly as written, and paths into a large text
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
basic_json_view gains get<T>(), get_to(), value() with keys and JSON
pointers, and operator[], at(), and contains() with JSON pointers, plus
two functions basic_json has no counterpart for:
- get_string(): the string without a copy (a string_view into the source,
or into the decoded strings for strings with escapes)
- number_token(): the text of a number as it appears in the source
get<T>() converts arithmetic types, strings (also string_view_t),
std::nullptr_t, std::vector, maps with string keys, and views directly;
floats are converted from the digit layout recorded by the parser with the
library's conversion chain, so the values are bit-identical to parse().
Other types, including user types with from_json(), go through
materialize().
The exceptions are those of basic_json, message included. Where const
basic_json has undefined behavior (a missing key or an index out of range
with operator[] and a JSON pointer), the result is a discarded view;
value() returns the default wherever basic_json catches out_of_range, and
contains() never throws. Array indices of JSON pointers follow
json_pointer's rules (parse_error.106/109, out_of_range.404/410).
Tests compare the conversions of 2,000 generated documents, 20,000 float
tokens (double and float, bit for bit), and every JSON pointer of 1,000
documents with basic_json, and the exceptions for malformed pointers.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
detail::json_pointer_access returns the reference tokens of a pointer, so
that code resolving pointers without a basic_json value (such as the
zero-copy view) does not have to parse to_string() again. No change in
behavior.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Marks the default initializer of the item's index string (needed by GCC's
-Weffc++) and, in the test, an escaped literal and a comparison of find()
with end(), which is what the test is about.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
- API pages for operator[], at, front, back, find, contains, count,
begin, end, cbegin, cend, items, and type_name of basic_json_view,
linked both ways with the basic_json pages
- the feature page and size() describe document order and duplicate
keys
- the examples show when the view helps: reading a few fields of a large
text, probing optional members, and members in source order
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
basic_json_view gains the read-only access functions of basic_json:
operator[] and at() with keys and indices, front(), back(), find(),
contains(), count(), begin()/end(), items() (with structured bindings from
C++17 on), and type_name(). They throw the exceptions (ids and messages)
that the const functions of basic_json throw; where basic_json has
undefined behavior (operator[] with a missing key or an index out of
range, front()/back() of an empty container), the view returns a
discarded view or throws invalid_iterator.214.
Objects are iterated in document order, and all members are visited. With
duplicate keys, lookups find the first member, so that a lookup can stop
at the first match; parse() keeps the last value. Keys of up to 16 bytes
are compared with two overlapping loads instead of memcmp, and most keys
are rejected by their length alone, from the index.
The iterators and items live in detail/view/iterator.hpp, the lookups in
detail/view/lookup.hpp. Tests compare every element and member of 2,000
generated documents with ordered_json, keys of every length around the
load sizes, the exceptions against const basic_json, and the iterators.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
basic_json::type_name() now calls detail::value_type_name(value_t), so
that code which reports types without a basic_json value at hand, such as
the zero-copy view, uses the same names in its exception messages. No
change in behavior.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
A new section describes the 16-byte node: its fields, how integers,
floats, and object members are stored, how views navigate without
pointers, and a worked example. The feature page and the pages of
basic_json_document and node_count link to it where they mention the
16 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
The 4 GiB limit and the fallback for an input that parse() accepts but
the view rejects (a bug) are excluded from the coverage; shrink_to_fit()
of an empty document is tested.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
- the input dispatch takes byte ranges by const reference and reads the
size once (which also settles a finding of the static analyzer); input
adapters are taken by value
- the classification of inputs keeps its nested conditional operators, a
constant expression of C++11 (NOLINT)
- the test's C arrays, fixed seed, and escaped literals are marked, as in
the other tests
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
benchmarks_view.cpp adds ViewParse, ViewRead (a reused document),
ViewParseIndented, ViewAccept, and ViewMaterialize on the files of
ParseString, so that each row can be read against the json::parse row of
the same file; benchmarks.cpp gains Accept (json::accept) as the
counterpart of ViewAccept. The view benchmarks are built only if the
header directory has json_view.hpp, so that older versions can still be
benchmarked.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
- API pages for basic_json_document and basic_json_view, one per member,
and for the four aliases, each with an example
- features/json_view.md: the problem the view solves, ownership and
lifetime, what matches basic_json::parse() and what differs, and when
to choose json, ordered_json, SAX, or the view
- the examples show why one would use the view, not only how: borrowed
vs. owned input, reading a few fields and materializing one subtree,
reusing a document across many messages
- registered in the mkdocs navigation, llms.txt, the docset, the
exceptions page (out_of_range.416), architecture.md, the integration
page, and the README; the yyjson credit is added to the README and
license.md
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
fuzzer-parse_json_view.cpp checks for every input that
json_document::accept agrees with json::accept, that an accepted input
materializes to the value json::parse returns, and that a rejected input
makes both throw the same exception with the same message. It is built
like the other fuzzers (tests/Makefile, and the root Makefile's
fuzz_testing_json_view target, which starts from the JSON test corpus) and
listed in tests/fuzzing.md.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
The nlohmann.json module includes json_view.hpp in its global module
fragment and exports basic_json_document, basic_json_view, and the four
aliases next to basic_json, json, and ordered_json. features/modules.md
lists them, and tests/module_cpp20 parses a document, so that a missing
export fails the ci_module_cpp20 job.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
The new single header goes through the same checks and install steps as
json.hpp and json_fwd.hpp:
- cmake/ci.cmake: ci_test_amalgamation regenerates, formats, and compares
json_view.hpp as well
- check_amalgamation.yml: the pull request check does the same; it runs
develop's tools, so it needs config_json_view.json on develop first
- meson.build: installs single_include/nlohmann/json_view.hpp
- gen_bazel_build_file.cmake, BUILD.bazel: json_view.hpp joins the
single-header target; the glob of the other target already covers the
new headers
- labeler.yml: an "aspect: json_view" label for the header, its
detail/view headers, tests, and documentation
The CMake install rules for include/ and single_include/, the REUSE
catch-all, and Package.swift cover the new files without changes.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
unit-json_view.cpp: type queries, size, and empty against basic_json;
materialize() against parse() (json and ordered_json, generated documents,
duplicate keys, 100,000 levels of nesting, parent pointers with
JSON_DIAGNOSTICS); parse errors and their messages equal to parse() for
malformed inputs and all option combinations; NUL and BOM; borrowed and
owned inputs (strings, C strings, literals, vectors, string_view, streams,
wide strings, parse_copy, and iterator ranges over pointers, vectors,
strings, and lists); reuse with read(); moves; shrink_to_fit() of the index
and of the decoded strings; source offsets.
unit-json_view_macros.cpp includes the header without
JSON_TEST_KEEP_MACROS, as users do: the view must not depend on the macros
json.hpp undefines, and must not leak its own.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
The public classes of the zero-copy view (#5295), in the new header
<nlohmann/json_view.hpp>:
- basic_json_document<BasicJsonType>: parse (borrowing contiguous byte
inputs, owning rvalue strings, streams, and other inputs), parse_copy,
accept, read, root, is_discarded, source, owns_source, node_count,
memory_usage, shrink_to_fit
- basic_json_view<BasicJsonType>: type and the is_* queries, size, empty,
materialize (the value parse() would produce, built by the same SAX
handler), source_offset
- the aliases json_document, json_view, ordered_json_document, and
ordered_json_view
A parse error throws the exception basic_json::parse would throw for the
same input: the library parser is run on the failing input, so messages,
positions, and exception ids are the same. Inputs of 4 GiB or more are
rejected with out_of_range.416.
The single header single_include/nlohmann/json_view.hpp keeps including
json.hpp; make amalgamate, check-amalgamation, include.zip, and release
handle it.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Six members of string_ref (length, begin, end, operator[], operator!=,
and operator<<) were not reached before C++17, where string_ref is
std::string_view.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Since whole blocks of eight digits are read directly, parse_upto8() only
gets fewer than eight digits; its eight-digit case was dead code.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
A block of eight digits of a number token lies inside the input (the
digits were counted while scanning, or are recorded in the digit
layout), so parse_upto19() reads it without the bounds check of the
last, partial block. Traversing canada.json: -11% instructions, -6%
cycles.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
json::parse ends the input at a NUL only between values (where it does
at all); inside a string, a NUL is a control character that must be
escaped. The view reported it as a missing closing quote. (Only the
error code differed: the exception comes from the library parser.)
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Numbers of more than 19 digits at the boundary of the largest double
are decided by the locale-aware fallback of the overflow check.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
- tables as std::array; the frames of the first 64 levels stay a C array
(not initialized on purpose, NOLINT)
- \u escapes are decoded with the library's hex_codepoint() instead of a
second table
- the parse failure is private, with an accessor; the special member
functions of the builder are all declared
- no nested conditional operators; explicit parentheses; a repeated
branch body merged; auto for casts
- the test's C arrays, fixed seed, and escaped literals are marked, as in
the other tests
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
With JSON_NOEXCEPTION, NLOHMANN_VIEW_THROW(e) was std::abort() alone, so
the parameters of the functions that build the exceptions were unused, a
warning that the builds with -Werror turn into an error. The exception is
now evaluated before std::abort(); the program ends anyway.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
The builder parses JSON text in one pass into the node index: strings and
numbers stay in the source (escaped strings are decoded into an arena),
integers are converted while their digits are in cache, and floats keep
their digit layout for a later conversion. It accepts exactly what
json::parse accepts, for every combination of comments and trailing commas,
with and without a terminating NUL, and with JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING.
Parse state lives in a local cursor whose address never escapes, so that it
stays in registers; out-of-line helpers (errors, regrowth, escapes,
comments) are members of the builder and get the positions they need. The
value dispatch is expanded once for array elements and once for member
values. Literals are compared with memcmp and words read in a fixed byte
order, so nothing depends on the platform's byte order. Error messages come
with the public classes.
Tests (unit-json_view_builder.cpp): accept/reject and values against
json::parse for handwritten, generated, and damaged documents under all
option combinations, from std::string and from exact-size buffers (no read
past the input under AddressSanitizer), deep nesting up to 100,000 levels,
NUL/BOM/whitespace cases, and the test-suite files.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Internal parts of the zero-copy view (#5295), under detail/view and not
included by json.hpp, so that users of json.hpp compile nothing of it:
- macro_scope.hpp/macro_unscope.hpp: the few macros the view needs, under
its own prefix (json.hpp undefines its own at its end); the throw macro
honors JSON_NOEXCEPTION and JSON_THROW_USER like JSON_THROW
- string_ref.hpp: std::string_view from C++17 on, else a small stand-in
- node.hpp: the 16-byte node of the index; its kinds are value_t values
(checked by a static_assert)
- document_data.hpp: the storage of a parsed document (node array, decode
arena, owned input)
- scan.hpp: string and digit scanning with unrolled checks at fixed offsets
(after yyjson) and the library's SWAR and UTF-8 checks, independent of the
byte order
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
json.hpp undefines JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING and
JSON_USE_LEGACY_DISCARDED_VALUE_COMPARISON at its end. Code that builds on
the library after it, such as the planned json_view.hpp, reads them from
detail::abi_config instead. The constants live in the ABI namespace, which
already encodes both settings, so they always match the basic_json in use.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
get_codepoint() read the four hex digits of a \u escape with four calls
to get(), each classified by a chain of range comparisons. For contiguous
input, get_codepoint_bulk() now decodes them with one lookup per byte
(hex_codepoint() in string_scan.hpp, after yyjson's read_hex_u16): a
256-entry table maps a byte to its value, or 0xFF for anything else, and
an invalid digit shows in the OR of the four values. It then skips the
four bytes and updates the position counters as four get() calls would.
If a digit is invalid or fewer than four bytes are left, it changes
nothing and the existing loop runs, so errors are reported with the same
message and position as before.
json::parse, best of 5 runs in separate processes (M1 Max): the escaped
twitter.json (every non-ASCII character as \u) -13.6%, all other files
within 0.3%.
Tests compare the contiguous and the streaming path (value or exception
message) for valid escapes, surrogate pairs, truncated and invalid digits
at every position, and 3,000 seeded random escapes.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
find_string_special() and find_ascii_copyable_run() test eight bytes at a
time, but located the stopping byte inside a word with a byte loop. The
lowest flagged byte of the SWAR tests is always a true hit (the borrows of
the subtractions can only flag bytes above one), so its index is now the
trailing-zero count of the mask; words are read in little-endian order on
every platform, so this does not depend on the byte order.
scalar_string_bulk_run() validates a run of multi-byte UTF-8 sequences one
after another instead of searching for the next special byte in between,
which helps text in non-Latin scripts.
The kernels serve the lexer's contiguous fast path, the serializer, and the
binary formats. New tests compare all three with byte-by-byte reference
scans on 100,000 generated buffers at three alignments; the portable
fallback of count_trailing_zeros() was checked against the builtin.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Niels Lohmann