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Niels Lohmann 63c10a51fc Review and extend the documentation, and check it in CI (#5638)
* 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

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* 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.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-02 11:32:15 +02:00
Niels LohmannandClaude Sonnet 5 6a406ee141 Document that JSON_Diagnostics CMake option doesn't apply to pre-installed packages (#5270)
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>
2026-07-11 23:58:18 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 4424a0fcc1 📝 update documentation (#4723)
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2025-04-05 18:54:35 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 8fb5d6f92d Some documentation updates (#4636)
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2025-02-15 12:19:59 +01:00
Harinath Nampally d23291ba26 use diagnostic positions in exceptions (#4585)
* add a ci step for Json_Diagnostic_Positions

Signed-off-by: Harinath Nampally <harinath922@gmail.com>

* Update ci.cmake to address review comments

Signed-off-by: Harinath Nampally <harinath922@gmail.com>

* address review comment

Signed-off-by: Harinath Nampally <harinath922@gmail.com>

* fix typo in the comment

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* fix typos in ci.cmake

Signed-off-by: Harinath Nampally <harinath922@gmail.com>

* invoke the new ci step from ubuntu.yml

Signed-off-by: Harinath Nampally <harinath922@gmail.com>

* issue4561 - use diagnostic positions for exceptions

Signed-off-by: Harinath Nampally <harinath922@gmail.com>

* fix ci_test_documentation check

Signed-off-by: Harinath Nampally <harinath922@gmail.com>

* address review comments

Signed-off-by: Harinath Nampally <harinath922@gmail.com>

* fix ci check failures for unit-diagnostic-postions.cpp

Signed-off-by: Harinath Nampally <harinath922@gmail.com>

* improvements based on review comments

Signed-off-by: Harinath Nampally <harinath922@gmail.com>

* fix const correctness string

Signed-off-by: Harinath Nampally <harinath922@gmail.com>

* further refinements based on reviews

Signed-off-by: Harinath Nampally <harinath922@gmail.com>

* add one more test case for full coverage

Signed-off-by: Harinath Nampally <harinath922@gmail.com>

* ci check fix - add const

Signed-off-by: Harinath Nampally <harinath922@gmail.com>

* add unit tests for json_diagnostic_postions only

Signed-off-by: Harinath Nampally <harinath922@gmail.com>

* fix ci_test_diagnostics

Signed-off-by: Harinath Nampally <harinath922@gmail.com>

* fix ci_test_build_documentation check

Signed-off-by: Harinath Nampally <harinath922@gmail.com>

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Signed-off-by: Harinath Nampally <harinath922@gmail.com>
2025-01-19 10:42:21 +01:00
Florian Albrechtskirchinger d3e347bd2d More documentation updates for 3.11.0 (#3553)
* mkdocs: add string_view examples

* mkdocs: reference underlying operators

* mkdocs: add operator<=> examples

* mkdocs: fix style check issues

* mkdocs: tweak BJData page

* mkdocs: add CMake option hints to macros

* mkdocs: fix JSON_DISABLE_ENUM_SERIALIZATION definition

* mkdocs: fix link to unit-udt.cpp

* mkdocs: fix "Arbitrary Type Conversions" title

* mkdocs: link to api/macros/*.md instead of features/macros.md

* mkdocs: document JSON_DisableEnumSerialization CMake option

* mkdocs: encode required C++ standard in example files

* docset: detect gsed/sed

* docset: update index

* docset: fix CSS patching

* docset: add list_missing_pages make target

* docset: add list_removed_paths make target

* docset: replace page titles with name from index

* docset: add install target for Zeal docset browser

* Use GCC_TOOL in ci_test_documentation target
2022-07-31 14:05:58 +02:00
Florian Albrechtskirchinger d909f80960 Add versioned, ABI-tagged inline namespace and namespace macros (#3590)
* Add versioned inline namespace

Add a versioned inline namespace to prevent ABI issues when linking code
using multiple library versions.

* Add namespace macros

* Encode ABI information in inline namespace

Add _diag suffix to inline namespace if JSON_DIAGNOSTICS is enabled, and
_ldvcmp suffix if JSON_USE_LEGACY_DISCARDED_VALUE_COMPARISON is enabled.

* Move ABI-affecting macros into abi_macros.hpp

* Move std_fs namespace definition into std_fs.hpp

* Remove std_fs namespace from unit test

* Format more files in tests directory

* Add unit tests

* Update documentation

* Fix GDB pretty printer

* fixup! Add namespace macros

* Derive ABI prefix from NLOHMANN_JSON_VERSION_*
2022-07-30 21:59:13 +02:00
Niels Lohmann b21c345179 Reorganize directories (#3462)
* 🚚 move files
* 🚚 rename doc folder to docs
* 🚚 rename test folder to tests
2022-05-01 09:41:50 +02:00