Several members were required only because of how the library happened to
be written, not because the functionality needs them. Dropping them widens
the set of usable string and array types, and one of them was also a
performance problem.
string_t:
- c_str() is gone. Every call site already knew the length and passed it
along, so data() is enough. The one place that did not, the diagnostics
path in exceptions.hpp, now builds the token from data() and size(),
which also stops it from truncating keys that contain a null byte.
- back() is gone; the serializer indexes the last character instead.
- find(str, pos), replace(), and substr() are gone. escape() and
unescape() rebuilt the string with one replace() per escaped character,
which moves the tail every time: escaping a string of n characters that
all need escaping cost O(n^2). Both now scan with find_first_of() -- a
member the pointer parser already required -- and append whole runs, so
the common case is one search and one copy. Escaping 64000 tildes drops
from 717 ms to 20 ms; a string with nothing to escape gets faster too
(8.4 ms to 5.8 ms), because the scan is still a single memchr per pass.
json_pointer::split() takes its reference tokens with the
(const char*, size_type) constructor rather than substr().
- json_pointer::to_string() accumulates with concat<string_t> instead of
letting concat default to std::string and converting afterwards, so
streaming a json_pointer no longer requires string_t to be assignable
from a std::string.
array_t:
- at(size_type) is gone. basic_json::at(size_type) checked the index by
calling array_t::at() and translating std::out_of_range, which also
required the array type to throw that exact exception. It now compares
against size() and uses operator[]. The thrown exception, its message,
and the behaviour under JSON_NOEXCEPTION are unchanged.
The BSON writer wrote the terminating null byte out of the string's own
buffer (size() + 1). It now writes the byte itself, so string_t::data()
need not be null-terminated for to_bson().
The tests pin the reduced API: alt_string loses the five dropped members
and gains coverage of the escaping paths, and a std::vector whose at() is
hidden is used as an ArrayType.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* 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_*
* Make exception context optional
Change exception context parameter to pointer and replace context with
nullptr where appropriate.
* Support escaping other string types
* Add string concatenation function
Add variadic concat() function for concatenating char *, char, and
string types.
* Replace string concatenations using + with concat()
* Template json_pointer on string type
Change json_pointer from being templated on basic_json to being
templated on string type.
* Add unit test for #3388Closes#3388.
* Fix regression test for #2958
* Add backwards compatibility with json_pointer<basic_json>
* Update json_pointer docs
* Allow comparing different json_pointers
* Update version numbers
Niels Lohmann
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