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Niels Lohmann dd7686a269 json_view: faster reading, indexing and C-stream parsing (#5888)
* Read C streams into a json_document in blocks

json_document::parse(FILE*) (and read(), accept(), parse_copy()) went through the
library's file input adapter and appended the text character by character
with fgetc. Read it with fread in blocks instead, like the std::istream
overload already does.

Parsing citm_catalog.json (1.7 MB) from a FILE*:
  Apple M1: 80.6 M -> 8.4 M instructions, 4.8 ms -> 0.55 ms (parse of the same text from a std::string: 8.7 M)
  Linux x86-64 Ir (whole run), GCC 13 / Clang 18: 47.0 M -> 13.7 M / 45.8 M -> 14.2 M
The parsed documents and the error cases are identical (checked over the test corpus
and 30 mutants of each file). A null FILE* is handled as before (by the library's adapter).

Belongs to the PR "json_view: read-side speedups".

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

* Index arrays without subtrees directly

operator[](idx), at(idx) and back() skipped the elements of an array one
after the other, whatever they were. In an array none of whose elements is
an array or object (numbers, strings, booleans, null) the elements are
adjacent nodes, which the array node's own sizes tell: its subtree has
exactly one node more than it has elements. Such an element is now the
node idx after the array node; any other array is walked as before.

Reading r[i] for every i of an array of 3000 integers:
  Apple M1: 28.8 M instructions, 3.1 ms -> 0.1 M instructions, 4 us
  Linux x86-64 Ir (whole run), GCC 13 / Clang 18: 84.1 M -> 3.1 M / 75.0 M -> 3.0 M
Arrays that contain arrays are unchanged.

Belongs to the PR "json_view: read-side speedups".

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

* Skip the bounds checks of number and string tokens in NUL-terminated input

For a NUL-terminated input (std::string, C string, string literal), the
parser reads the terminator instead of comparing p with the end, via
cursor::cur(). Number and string scanning still tested `p != e` before each
look at the next byte (after the integer digits for '.', for 'e', after
the exponent sign and digits, and after a string for its closing quote),
although the terminator can never be one of those characters. They now use
cur(), which is the plain load for NUL-terminated input and the bounds check
for ptr+len input, as before.

Parsing, Apple M1 instructions per parse: twitter 3.126 M -> 3.089 M (-1.2 %),
citm_catalog 8.70 M -> 8.58 M (-1.3 %), jeopardy 306.1 M -> 302.5 M (-1.2 %), signed
integers 281 M -> 266 M (-5.4 %), canada and floats -0.1 % / -0.9 %.
Linux x86-64 Ir, GCC 13 / Clang 18: twitter -0.5 % / -0.0 %, signed integers +0.2 % / -0.7 %.

Belongs to the PR "json_view: read-side speedups".

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

* Make the index text of items() on arrays lazy

basic_json_view::items() on an array formatted every element's index with
std::to_string when the item was made, whether or not the loop asks for the
key. The item now keeps the position and makes the text on the first key()
call. Objects are not affected.

Iterating over the items of an array of 3000 numbers and reading only the values:
  Apple M1: 25.5 us -> 4.6 us (0.45 M -> ~0 net instructions)
  Linux x86-64 Ir (whole run), GCC 13 / Clang 18: 14.9 M -> 4.1 M / 15.3 M -> 4.6 M
Reading key() costs what it did (24.5 us).

Belongs to the PR "json_view: read-side speedups".

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

* Make the default of value() with a C string only if the member is missing

basic_json_view::value(key, "text") and value(pointer, "text") built a
std::string from the default first and passed it on, so a call allocated
for the default even when the member exists, and copied it again when it
does not. They now look the member up and make the result directly: from the
member if there is one, else from the C string. Behavior, including the
exceptions, is the same.

Two calls (member found, member missing) with a 40 character default, Apple M1:
  1.6 K -> 0.7 K instructions
  Linux x86-64 Ir (500 rounds), GCC 13 / Clang 18: 2.46 M -> 2.22 M / 2.40 M -> 2.15 M

Belongs to the PR "json_view: read-side speedups".

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

* Materialize scalars directly and keep the stack of small subtrees local

basic_json_view::materialize() (and get<BasicJsonType>()) always set up the
SAX handler that parse() uses and a std::vector for the open containers,
sized from the document's deepest nesting. For a scalar, which is most of what
is materialized one value at a time, neither is needed: the value is made
directly (the same constructors the handler ends up calling). For arrays and
objects the stack of open containers is now a local array for the first 16
levels, and the vector is only used for deeper documents.

Materializing five scalars of a small document, Apple M1: 3.6 K -> 0.9 K instructions
  Linux x86-64 Ir (500 rounds), GCC 13 / Clang 18: 2.96 M -> 2.37 M / 2.90 M -> 2.29 M

Belongs to the PR "json_view: read-side speedups".

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

* Copy the text between escapes while scanning it

A string that contains an escape is decoded by builder::slow_string(). After
each escape it scanned the next run of plain bytes (8 or 16 byte-by-byte
steps, then a vector loop), and then copied that run to the decode arena in a
second pass. The run is now copied 16 bytes at a time while it is scanned
(one vector load, a store of the same 16 bytes, and the mask of the bytes
that end the run), and the write position lives in a local variable, not in
the builder, since a store of a character may alias the builder's members and
made the compiler reload it after every escape. A run that ends at a quote
needs no scan, and non-ASCII text goes through the UTF-8 check as before;
the portable code is unchanged.

Parsing, Apple M1 instructions: jeopardy.json 304.0 M -> 293.8 M (-3.4 %), 3000 strings with
escapes 1.72 M -> 1.54 M (-10 %), twitter -0.6 %.
Linux x86-64 Ir, GCC 13 / Clang 18: escaped strings -7.6 % / -11.4 %, twitter 0.0 % / 0.0 %.
Documents and error messages are identical on 900 k random strings of escapes, UTF-8 and control
characters (also under ASan), and on mutants of the test corpus.

Belongs to the PR "json_view: read-side speedups".

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

* Hash the last bytes of a key of a large object without a loop

key_hash() mixed a key eight bytes at a time and then packed the remaining
0-7 bytes one by one, in a loop. The last word of a key of eight or more
bytes is now read as the last eight bytes of the key (overlapping the word
before), and a key of 2-7 bytes as two overlapping words of four or two
bytes. A product only moves bits upwards, and the slot is taken from the low
bits: the high bits of the last word are folded down before the
multiplication, since keys that differ only in their last characters ("user_17",
"user_18") would otherwise share slots. The hash is not stored, so its values
may change.

Looking up every key of an object of 1000 random keys, Apple M1 instructions per 1000 lookups:
  keys of 5 bytes 175 K -> 93 K, hex strings of 8 bytes 177 K -> 168 K, keys of 12 bytes 196 K -> 186 K
Linux x86-64 Ir (whole run), GCC 13 / Clang 18: 5-byte keys -4.7 % / -8.8 %, 12-byte keys -3.3 % / -7.4 %.
Building the tables while parsing such objects is cheaper as well (5-byte keys: 13.3 us -> 10.1 us).

Belongs to the PR "json_view: read-side speedups".

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

* Compare short keys of a large object without a call of memcmp

find_indexed() compared the key of a member the table points to with
memcmp, a library call for any length. Up to 16 bytes, the bytes are now
compared as two overlapping words (the first and the last 8, 4, or 2 bytes),
as find_member() already does for the objects without a table; longer keys
still use memcmp.

Looking up every key of an object of 1000 random keys, Apple M1 instructions per 1000 lookups
(with the previous commit): keys of 5 bytes 93 K -> 72 K, hex strings of 8 bytes 168 K -> 148 K,
keys of 12 bytes 186 K -> 170 K, keys of 24 bytes 198 K -> 193 K (unchanged, memcmp).
Linux x86-64 Ir (whole run), GCC 13 / Clang 18: 5-byte keys -7.2 % / -7.3 %, 12-byte keys -5.9 % / -6.6 %.

Belongs to the PR "json_view: read-side speedups".

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

* Read an unedited editable document like a read-only one

Views of a json_editable_document followed edits at every step: the
lookup, the element access, back(), dump() and materialize() were built
for nodes that can be moved or linked, though no edit changes the index until
the first one (every edit creates the edit state before it touches a node).
Until then these now take the read-only code: one check of the document's
edit state per call, not per member or per node. After the first edit
nothing changes. Views that were made earlier keep working, as the check is
made when they are used.

Unedited editable document, Apple M1: dump() of twitter.json 1.40 M -> 1.22 M instructions (-12.6 %);
lookups unchanged. Linux x86-64 Ir, GCC 13 / Clang 18: dump -1.7 % / -1.0 %, lookups -0.1 % / 0.0 %.
Walking with iterators is unchanged, and so is dump() after an edit.

Belongs to the PR "json_view: read-side speedups".

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

* Format the numbered test keys of json_view's index with a stream

The keys were made with snprintf() and a format from a list, which
Flawfinder reports as an error (CWE-134, a format string that is not a
literal). A stream now formats them; the 30000 keys of the test are the
same as before.

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

* Put the key number of the json_view index test in parentheses

astyle formatted i * step after << as a pointer declaration (i* step),
which failed the amalgamation check.

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

* Fix the compiler and lint findings of json_view's read side and tests

- find() and contains() dispatch on Editable for the member lookup; for
  documents that cannot be edited both branches were the same call
  (GCC -Wduplicated-branches)
- json_view.hpp includes <cstdio> for the FILE overload (cpplint)
- the arena check macro of the builder is on one line (cpplint read it
  as an if body without braces)
- tests: no nested conditional (also MSVC C4018), no useless cast,
  parentheses around mixed operators, raw string literals, += instead
  of temporary concatenations, and NOLINT for the fixed seeds and a
  find() != npos, as elsewhere in the tests

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

* Grow the decode arena through a function and store its position back on every return

slow_string() kept its write position in locals and grew the arena through
the macro NLOHMANN_VIEW_ENSURE. The macro is now the always-inline member
arena_ensure() (a lambda is not inlined at every call site by clang, which
then keeps the position in memory: +11 % instructions on escape-heavy
strings), and a guard stores the position back into m_arena_write on every
return instead of by hand on the successful one. Instruction counts are
unchanged (clang) or 1 % lower (GCC).

Also word the complexity of back() as that of at().

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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// __ _____ _____ _____
// __| | __| | | | JSON for Modern C++ (supporting code)
// | | |__ | | | | | | version 3.12.0
// |_____|_____|_____|_|___| https://github.com/nlohmann/json
//
// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013-2026 Niels Lohmann <https://nlohmann.me>
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
#include "doctest_compatibility.h"
#include <nlohmann/json_view.hpp>
using nlohmann::json;
using nlohmann::ordered_json;
using nlohmann::json_document;
using nlohmann::ordered_json_editable_document;
using nlohmann::json_view;
using nlohmann::ordered_json_document;
using nlohmann::ordered_json_view;
#include "json_view_test_helpers.hpp"
using json_view_test::generator;
using json_view_test::has_duplicate_keys;
#include <algorithm>
#include <array>
#include <cmath>
#include <cstddef>
#include <cstdint>
#include <cstring>
#include <iomanip>
#include <map>
#include <random>
#include <set>
#include <sstream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
// These tests were split off unit-json_view.cpp, whose object file got too large
// for the MinGW linker (see json_view_test_helpers.hpp). Like that file, this one
// is also built with C++17, as it mentions JSON_HAS_CPP_17.
TEST_CASE("json_view dump")
{
SECTION("the output of ordered_json::dump()")
{
generator g;
for (int i = 0; i < 2000; ++i)
{
std::string text;
g.value(text, 0);
const ordered_json_document d = ordered_json_document::parse(text);
if (has_duplicate_keys(d.root()))
{
continue;
}
CAPTURE(text)
const ordered_json j = ordered_json::parse(text);
for (const int indent :
{
-1, 0, 2
})
{
for (const bool ensure_ascii :
{
false, true
})
{
CHECK(d.root().dump(indent, i % 2 == 0 ? ' ' : '\t', ensure_ascii) == j.dump(indent, i % 2 == 0 ? ' ' : '\t', ensure_ascii));
}
}
// also of each element
for (const ordered_json_view e : d.root())
{
CHECK(e.dump() == e.materialize().dump());
}
}
}
SECTION("strings")
{
const std::string text = R"(["plain", "\u0000\u0001\u001f\u007f\u0080é€￿😀", "\"\\\/\b\f\n\r\t", "aéあ😀b", "long text beyond the eight bytes of a word \n with an escape in the middle"])";
const ordered_json_document d = ordered_json_document::parse(text);
const ordered_json j = ordered_json::parse(text);
CHECK(d.root().dump() == j.dump());
CHECK(d.root().dump(-1, ' ', true) == j.dump(-1, ' ', true));
CHECK(d.root().dump(4, ' ', true) == j.dump(4, ' ', true));
const std::string key_text = R"({"é\n": {"\"": [], "": {}}})";
const ordered_json_document keys = ordered_json_document::parse(key_text);
const ordered_json key_json = ordered_json::parse(key_text);
CHECK(keys.root().dump(2, ' ', true) == key_json.dump(2, ' ', true));
}
SECTION("numbers")
{
const std::string text = "[1.50, 1E2, -0, -0.0, 123456789012345678901234567890, 18446744073709551615, -9223372036854775808, 0.1, 1e-7, 5e-324]";
const json_document d = json_document::parse(text);
CHECK(d.root().dump() == json::parse(text).dump());
CHECK(d.root().dump() == "[1.5,100.0,0,-0.0,1.2345678901234568e+29,18446744073709551615,-9223372036854775808,0.1,1e-07,5e-324]");
CHECK(d.root().dump(-1, ' ', false, json_view::number_format::source) == "[1.50,1E2,-0,-0.0,123456789012345678901234567890,18446744073709551615,-9223372036854775808,0.1,1e-7,5e-324]");
// also indented, and with ensure_ascii
CHECK(d.root().dump(0, ' ', false, json_view::number_format::source) == "[\n1.50,\n1E2,\n-0,\n-0.0,\n123456789012345678901234567890,\n18446744073709551615,\n-9223372036854775808,\n0.1,\n1e-7,\n5e-324\n]");
CHECK(d.root().dump(-1, ' ', true, json_view::number_format::source) == "[1.50,1E2,-0,-0.0,123456789012345678901234567890,18446744073709551615,-9223372036854775808,0.1,1e-7,5e-324]");
// float tokens of up to 17 significant digits in every spelling: those
// of at most 15 digits are written from their digits, the others
// through the conversion; both as dump() writes them
{
std::mt19937_64 tokens(1170); // NOLINT(cert-msc32-c,cert-msc51-cpp,bugprone-random-generator-seed)
// a number below n; the remainder is a std::uint64_t, which is
// std::size_t on some platforms and wider on others
const auto draw = [&tokens](std::size_t n)
{
const std::uint64_t r = tokens() % n;
return static_cast<std::size_t>(r);
};
std::string many_tokens = "[";
for (int i = 0; i < 20000; ++i)
{
const std::size_t length = 1 + draw(17);
std::string digits(1, static_cast<char>('1' + draw(9)));
for (std::size_t k = 1; k < length; ++k)
{
digits += static_cast<char>('0' + draw(10));
}
digits += std::string(draw(4), '0'); // trailing zeros
std::string token = draw(3) == 0 ? "-" : "";
const std::size_t point = draw(digits.size() + 1);
if (point == 0)
{
token += "0." + std::string(draw(5), '0') + digits;
}
else
{
token += digits.substr(0, point) + (point < digits.size() ? "." + digits.substr(point) : "");
}
// an exponent that keeps the value between about 1e-320 and 1e300
const int exponent = static_cast<int>(draw(600)) - 300 - static_cast<int>(point);
if (draw(4) != 0)
{
token += (draw(2) == 0 ? "e" : "E") + std::string(exponent >= 0 && draw(2) == 0 ? "+" : "") + std::to_string(exponent);
}
else if (point == digits.size())
{
token += ".0"; // (a float, not an integer)
}
many_tokens += (i != 0 ? "," : "") + token;
}
many_tokens += ']';
const json_document many_doc = json_document::parse(many_tokens);
CHECK(many_doc.root().dump() == json::parse(many_tokens).dump());
}
// random doubles, written as parse() and dump() would
std::mt19937_64 rng(1170); // NOLINT(cert-msc32-c,cert-msc51-cpp,bugprone-random-generator-seed)
std::string many = "[";
for (int i = 0; i < 5000; ++i)
{
const std::uint64_t bits = rng();
double x = 0;
std::memcpy(&x, &bits, sizeof(x));
if (std::isfinite(x))
{
many += (many.size() > 1 ? "," : "") + json(x).dump();
}
}
many += ']';
const json_document many_document = json_document::parse(many);
CHECK(many_document.root().dump() == json::parse(many).dump());
using json_float = nlohmann::basic_json<std::map, std::vector, std::string, bool, std::int64_t, std::uint64_t, float>;
const nlohmann::basic_json_document<json_float> float_document = nlohmann::basic_json_document<json_float>::parse("[0.1, 1.5e10, 3.4028235e38]");
CHECK(float_document.root().dump() == json_float::parse("[0.1, 1.5e10, 3.4028235e38]").dump());
}
SECTION("members in document order, all of them")
{
const json_document d = json_document::parse(R"({"b": 1, "a": 2, "b": 3})");
CHECK(d.root().dump() == R"({"b":1,"a":2,"b":3})");
CHECK(d.root().dump(1) == "{\n \"b\": 1,\n \"a\": 2,\n \"b\": 3\n}");
// dump() writes all members, though the lookup finds the first
CHECK(d.root()["b"].dump() == "1");
}
SECTION("deep nesting")
{
const std::string deep = std::string(100000, '[') + std::string(100000, ']');
const json_document deep_document = json_document::parse(deep);
CHECK(deep_document.root().dump() == deep);
}
SECTION("ensure_ascii: a character that needs an escape at each position of a string")
{
// string lengths around the width of the vector steps, in a string value, a key, and a value near the end of the text
for (const char* const special :
{
"\xC3\xA9", "\xE4\xB8\xAD", "\xF0\x9F\x98\x80", "\x7F", "\\n", "\\u0001", "\\\"", "\\\\"
})
{
for (std::size_t length = 0; length <= 40; ++length)
{
for (std::size_t position = 0; position <= length; ++position)
{
std::string content(length, 'a');
content.insert(position, special);
const std::array<std::string, 3> texts =
{
{
"\"" + content + "\"",
"[\"" + content + "\"]",
"{\"" + content + "\":1}",
}
};
for (const std::string& text : texts)
{
CAPTURE(text)
const ordered_json_document d = ordered_json_document::parse(text);
const ordered_json j = ordered_json::parse(text);
CHECK(d.root().dump(-1, ' ', true) == j.dump(-1, ' ', true));
CHECK(d.root().dump(2, ' ', true) == j.dump(2, ' ', true));
CHECK(d.root().dump() == j.dump());
}
}
}
}
}
SECTION("ensure_ascii: every character of the Basic Multilingual Plane and some beyond")
{
// (the two- and three-byte sequences, including the ranges that need a check: E0, ED, EF BF BF)
std::string text = "[";
std::size_t in_chunk = 0;
const auto append = [&](std::uint32_t cp)
{
if (cp < 0x80)
{
if (cp < 0x20 || cp == '"' || cp == '\\')
{
return;
}
text += static_cast<char>(cp);
}
else if (cp < 0x800)
{
text += static_cast<char>(0xC0 | (cp >> 6));
text += static_cast<char>(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));
}
else if (cp < 0x10000)
{
text += static_cast<char>(0xE0 | (cp >> 12));
text += static_cast<char>(0x80 | ((cp >> 6) & 0x3F));
text += static_cast<char>(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));
}
else
{
text += static_cast<char>(0xF0 | (cp >> 18));
text += static_cast<char>(0x80 | ((cp >> 12) & 0x3F));
text += static_cast<char>(0x80 | ((cp >> 6) & 0x3F));
text += static_cast<char>(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));
}
};
for (std::uint32_t cp = 0x20; cp < 0x10400; ++cp)
{
if (cp >= 0xD800 && cp < 0xE000)
{
continue;
}
if (in_chunk == 0)
{
text += text.size() > 1 ? ",\"" : "\"";
}
append(cp);
if (++in_chunk == 37)
{
text += "\"";
in_chunk = 0;
}
}
text += in_chunk != 0 ? "\"]" : "]";
const ordered_json_document d = ordered_json_document::parse(text);
const ordered_json j = ordered_json::parse(text);
CHECK(d.root().dump(-1, ' ', true) == j.dump(-1, ' ', true));
CHECK(d.root().dump(2, ' ', true) == j.dump(2, ' ', true));
CHECK(d.root().dump() == j.dump());
CHECK(d.root().dump(2) == j.dump(2));
}
SECTION("deep nesting, indented")
{
// indentations of up to and beyond the width of the writer's fixed-size copy
for (const int depth :
{
1, 5, 20, 70, 300
})
{
std::string text;
for (int i = 0; i < depth; ++i)
{
text += i % 2 == 0 ? "[1," : R"({"k":2,"\u00e9":)";
}
text += "[]";
for (int i = depth - 1; i >= 0; --i)
{
text += i % 2 == 0 ? "]" : "}";
}
const ordered_json_document d = ordered_json_document::parse(text);
const ordered_json j = ordered_json::parse(text);
for (const int indent :
{
0, 1, 2, 3, 8
})
{
CHECK(d.root().dump(indent) == j.dump(indent));
CHECK(d.root().dump(indent, '\t') == j.dump(indent, '\t'));
}
}
}
SECTION("the output buffer of a small value is small")
{
// an escaped key after the value: its node lies in the arena, so the
// source extent of the value cannot be read from the next node
const std::string big(100000, 'a');
const std::string text = R"({"small":1,"list":[1,2,3],"k\n":")" + big + R"("})";
const json_document d = json_document::parse(text);
const auto small = d.root()["small"].dump();
CHECK(small == "1");
CHECK(small.capacity() < 4096);
const auto list = d.root()["list"].dump();
CHECK(list == "[1,2,3]");
CHECK(list.capacity() < 4096);
CHECK(d.root()["list"].dump(2).capacity() < 4096);
// the whole document and the large value are unaffected
CHECK(d.root().dump() == ordered_json::parse(text).dump());
CHECK(d.root()["k\n"].dump() == "\"" + big + "\"");
}
SECTION("output that outgrows the estimate")
{
// ensure_ascii writes six bytes for each two-byte character
std::string chars;
for (int i = 0; i < 5000; ++i)
{
chars += "\xC3\xA9";
}
const json_document d = json_document::parse(R"({"a":")" + chars + R"(","k\n":1})");
const json expected = json::parse("\"" + chars + "\"");
CHECK(d.root()["a"].dump(-1, ' ', true) == expected.dump(-1, ' ', true));
CHECK(d.root()["a"].dump(-1, ' ', true).size() == 2 + (5000 * 6));
}
SECTION("ensure_ascii with strings of the source, decoded strings, and edited strings")
{
// plain ASCII, non-ASCII, escaped (decoded), and mixed strings, as values and as keys;
// the second text has a DEL, which ensure_ascii writes as an escape
for (const char* const del :
{"", "\x7F"
})
{
const std::string text = std::string("{\"plain\":\"abc\",\"caf\xC3\xA9\":\"\xC3\xA9\xE2\x82\xAC\xF0\x9F\x98\x80\",")
+ "\"esc\\n\\\"\":\"a\\tb\\u00e4\\ud83d\\ude00\",\"del\":\"a" + del + "b\",\"\":\"\"," // NOLINT(modernize-raw-string-literal)
+ "\"list\":[\"x\",\"\xC3\xBC\",\"\\\\\",\"long ASCII string with more than thirty-two bytes in it\","
+ "\"long string with more than thirty-two bytes and one non-ASCII byte \xC3\xB6\"],"
+ "\"n\":[1,2.5,-0,true,null]}";
const ordered_json j = ordered_json::parse(text);
const ordered_json_document d = ordered_json_document::parse(text);
CHECK(d.root().dump(-1, ' ', true) == j.dump(-1, ' ', true));
CHECK(d.root().dump(4, ' ', true) == j.dump(4, ' ', true));
CHECK(d.root().dump() == j.dump());
CHECK(d.root()["list"].dump(-1, ' ', true) == j["list"].dump(-1, ' ', true));
CHECK(d.root()["del"].dump(-1, ' ', true) == j["del"].dump(-1, ' ', true));
// strings that an edit wrote (the source strings that they replace were plain)
ordered_json_editable_document e = ordered_json_editable_document::parse(text);
ordered_json k = j;
e.set(e.root()["plain"], std::string("\xC3\xA4gypten"));
k["plain"] = "\xC3\xA4gypten";
e.set(e.root()["list"][0], std::string("ascii after edit"));
k["list"][0] = "ascii after edit";
e.set(e.root()["list"][1], std::string("\xC3\xA4"));
k["list"][1] = "\xC3\xA4";
e.set(e.root()["del"], std::string("tab\there"));
k["del"] = "tab\there";
CHECK(e.root().dump(-1, ' ', true) == k.dump(-1, ' ', true));
CHECK(e.root().dump(2, ' ', true) == k.dump(2, ' ', true));
CHECK(e.root().dump() == k.dump());
// strings that were edited from or to ASCII text
e.set(e.root()["list"][2], std::string("\xC3\xA4"));
k["list"][2] = "\xC3\xA4";
e.set(e.root()["list"][4], std::string("plain again"));
k["list"][4] = "plain again";
CHECK(e.root().dump(-1, ' ', true) == k.dump(-1, ' ', true));
}
}
SECTION("ensure_ascii with DEL or a non-ASCII character at every position")
{
// the check whether a string of the source has no byte >= 0x7F reads
// eight bytes at a time and then the rest one by one
for (std::size_t length = 1; length <= 20; ++length)
{
for (std::size_t pos = 0; pos < length; ++pos)
{
for (const char* const c :
{
"\x7F", "\x7E", "\xC3\xA4", "\xC3\xBF" // NOLINT(modernize-raw-string-literal)
})
{
const std::string s = std::string(pos, 'a') + c + std::string(length - pos - 1, 'b');
std::string text = "[\"";
text.append(s).append("\",{\"").append(s).append("\":1}]");
const json_document d = json_document::parse(text);
const json j = json::parse(text);
CHECK(d.root().dump(-1, ' ', true) == j.dump(-1, ' ', true));
CHECK(d.root().dump(1, ' ', true) == j.dump(1, ' ', true));
}
}
}
}
SECTION("streams and discarded views")
{
const json_document d = json_document::parse(R"({"a": [1, 2]})");
std::ostringstream compact;
compact << d.root();
CHECK(compact.str() == R"({"a":[1,2]})");
std::ostringstream pretty;
pretty << std::setw(2) << std::setfill('.') << d.root() << d.root()["a"];
CHECK(pretty.str() == "{\n..\"a\": [\n....1,\n....2\n..]\n}[1,2]");
CHECK(json_view().dump() == json(json::value_t::discarded).dump());
}
}
TEST_CASE("json_view comparison")
{
SECTION("equality of the values parse() produces")
{
generator g;
std::vector<std::string> texts;
for (int i = 0; i < 600; ++i)
{
std::string text;
g.value(text, 0);
texts.push_back(text);
// the same value written differently: sorted keys, canonical numbers
texts.push_back(json::parse(text).dump(1));
}
for (std::size_t i = 0; i + 2 < texts.size(); ++i)
{
for (std::size_t k = i; k < i + 3; ++k)
{
CAPTURE(texts[i])
CAPTURE(texts[k])
const json_document a = json_document::parse(texts[i]);
const json_document b = json_document::parse(texts[k]);
const json ja = json::parse(texts[i]);
const json jb = json::parse(texts[k]);
CHECK((a.root() == b.root()) == (ja == jb));
CHECK((a.root() != b.root()) == (ja != jb));
CHECK((a.root() == jb) == (ja == jb));
CHECK((jb == a.root()) == (ja == jb));
CHECK((a.root() != jb) == (ja != jb));
CHECK((jb != a.root()) == (ja != jb));
// ordered_json compares members in order
const ordered_json_document oa = ordered_json_document::parse(texts[i]);
const ordered_json_document ob = ordered_json_document::parse(texts[k]);
const ordered_json oja = ordered_json::parse(texts[i]);
const ordered_json ojb = ordered_json::parse(texts[k]);
CHECK((oa.root() == ob.root()) == (oja == ojb));
CHECK((oa.root() == ojb) == (oja == ojb));
}
}
}
SECTION("numbers, duplicate keys, member order")
{
const auto same = [](const char* x, const char* y)
{
const json_document dx = json_document::parse(x);
const json_document dy = json_document::parse(y);
return dx.root() == dy.root();
};
CHECK(same("1", "1.0"));
CHECK(same("[1, -1, 2.5]", "[1.0, -1.0, 25e-1]"));
CHECK(!same("1", "1.5"));
CHECK(same("18446744073709551615", "18446744073709551615"));
CHECK(same(R"({"a": 1, "a": 2})", R"({"a": 2})"));
CHECK(!same(R"({"a": 1, "a": 2})", R"({"a": 1})"));
CHECK(same(R"({"a": 1, "b": 2})", R"({"b": 2, "a": 1})"));
CHECK(!same(R"({"a": 1})", R"({"a": 1, "b": 2})"));
CHECK(!same("[1, 2]", "[2, 1]"));
CHECK(!same("\"a\"", "\"b\""));
CHECK(same("\"\\u00e9\"", "\"\xc3\xa9\""));
CHECK(!same("null", "false"));
CHECK(!same("[]", "{}"));
const ordered_json_document dup = ordered_json_document::parse(R"({"a": 1, "b": 2, "a": 3})");
const ordered_json_document last = ordered_json_document::parse(R"({"a": 3, "b": 2})");
CHECK(dup.root() == last.root());
// (== compares as parse() resolves duplicates, a lookup finds the first)
CHECK(dup.root()["a"].materialize() == 1);
CHECK(dup.root()["a"] != last.root()["a"]);
const ordered_json_document ab = ordered_json_document::parse(R"({"a": 1, "b": 2})");
const ordered_json_document ba = ordered_json_document::parse(R"({"b": 2, "a": 1})");
CHECK(ab.root() != ba.root());
// discarded values compare as basic_json's do
const json discarded(json::value_t::discarded);
CHECK((json_view() == json_view()) == (discarded == discarded)); // NOLINT(readability-container-size-empty): operator== is tested
CHECK((json_view() == discarded) == (discarded == discarded)); // NOLINT(readability-container-size-empty)
const json_document null_document = json_document::parse("null");
CHECK(!(json_view() == null_document.root())); // NOLINT(readability-container-size-empty)
CHECK(!(null_document.root() == discarded));
}
SECTION("deep nesting")
{
const std::string deep = std::string(100000, '[') + std::string(100000, ']');
const json_document a = json_document::parse(deep);
const json_document b = json_document::parse(deep);
CHECK(a.root() == b.root());
CHECK(a.root() == json::parse(deep));
const std::string other = std::string(100000, '[') + "1" + std::string(100000, ']');
const json_document c = json_document::parse(other);
CHECK(a.root() != c.root());
}
}
TEST_CASE("json_view large objects")
{
// objects with 128 members or more are looked up with a hash index
for (const std::size_t members :
{
127u, 128u, 129u, 10000u
})
{
CAPTURE(members)
std::string text = "{";
for (std::size_t i = 0; i < members; ++i)
{
text += (i != 0 ? ",\"" : "\"") + std::string(i % 23, 'k') + std::to_string(i) + (i % 7 == 0 ? "\\n" : "") + "\":" + std::to_string(i);
}
text += R"(,"":"empty key","k1":"a duplicate of an earlier key"})";
const json_document d = json_document::parse(text);
const json_view v = d.root();
const json j = json::parse(text);
for (std::size_t i = 0; i < members; ++i)
{
const std::string key = std::string(i % 23, 'k') + std::to_string(i) + (i % 7 == 0 ? "\n" : "");
CHECK(v[key].get<std::size_t>() == i);
CHECK(v.contains(key));
CHECK(v.find(key).key() == key);
CHECK(v.at(key).get<std::size_t>() == i);
CHECK(!v.contains(key + "x"));
}
CHECK(v[""].get_string() == "empty key");
CHECK(v["k1"].get<int>() == 1); // the first of duplicate keys, as for small objects
CHECK(!v.contains("missing"));
CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(v.at("missing"), "[json.exception.out_of_range.403] key 'missing' not found", json::out_of_range&);
CHECK(v == j);
CHECK(v.materialize() == j);
}
SECTION("duplicate keys: the first member wins, with and without a table")
{
// an object of `total` members: the keys "k0".."k<n-1>" in order, then
// three keys repeated twice more (one copy in the middle, one at the
// end), and two keys repeated once; the value of a member is its
// position, so that the first member of a key can be told apart
struct member
{
std::string key;
std::size_t position;
};
const auto make_members = [](std::size_t total)
{
std::vector<std::string> keys;
for (std::size_t i = 0; i + 8 < total; ++i)
{
keys.push_back("k" + std::to_string(i));
}
const std::size_t n = keys.size();
const std::array<std::size_t, 3> triple = {{3, 17, n - 1}};
const std::array<std::size_t, 2> twice = {{5, n / 2}};
std::vector<std::string> ordered = keys;
for (const std::size_t i : triple)
{
ordered.insert(ordered.begin() + static_cast<std::ptrdiff_t>(ordered.size() / 2), keys[i]);
}
for (const std::size_t i : twice)
{
ordered.insert(ordered.begin() + static_cast<std::ptrdiff_t>(ordered.size() / 3), keys[i]);
}
for (const std::size_t i : triple)
{
ordered.push_back(keys[i]);
}
std::vector<member> result;
result.reserve(ordered.size());
for (std::size_t i = 0; i < ordered.size(); ++i)
{
result.push_back({ordered[i], i});
}
return result;
};
// 100 and 127 members: no table; 128 members and more: a table
for (const std::size_t total :
{
100u, 127u, 128u, 200u, 5000u
})
{
CAPTURE(total)
const std::vector<member> members = make_members(total);
REQUIRE(members.size() >= total);
REQUIRE(members.size() >= 100);
std::string text = "{";
std::map<std::string, std::size_t> first;
std::map<std::string, std::size_t> last;
std::map<std::string, std::size_t> occurrences;
for (const member& m : members)
{
text += (text.size() > 1 ? ",\"" : "\"") + m.key + "\":" + std::to_string(m.position);
first.insert({m.key, m.position});
last[m.key] = m.position;
++occurrences[m.key];
}
text += '}';
REQUIRE(first.size() < members.size());
const json_document d = json_document::parse(text);
const json_view v = d.root();
const json j = json::parse(text);
CHECK(v.size() == members.size()); // every occurrence is visited
const json m = v.materialize();
for (const auto& entry : first)
{
CAPTURE(entry.first)
const std::size_t expected = entry.second;
CHECK(v[entry.first].get<std::size_t>() == expected);
CHECK(v.at(entry.first).get<std::size_t>() == expected);
CHECK(v.find(entry.first).value().get<std::size_t>() == expected);
CHECK(v.value(entry.first, std::size_t{0}) == expected);
CHECK(v.contains(entry.first));
CHECK(v.count(entry.first) == occurrences[entry.first]);
const std::string pointer = "/" + entry.first;
CHECK(v[json::json_pointer(pointer)].get<std::size_t>() == expected);
CHECK(v.at(json::json_pointer(pointer)).get<std::size_t>() == expected);
CHECK(v.value(json::json_pointer(pointer), std::size_t{0}) == expected);
CHECK(v.contains(json::json_pointer(pointer)));
// materialize() and parse() keep the last value instead
CHECK(j[entry.first].get<std::size_t>() == last.at(entry.first));
CHECK(m[entry.first].get<std::size_t>() == last.at(entry.first));
}
CHECK(!v.contains("k"));
CHECK(v["missing"].is_discarded());
CHECK(v.materialize() == j);
CHECK(v == j);
}
}
SECTION("colliding keys")
{
// the hash is not seeded, so keys that all land in one place must not
// make the table build quadratic: such an object gets no table and is
// searched linearly
constexpr std::size_t members = 300;
constexpr std::size_t table_size = 1024; // the table size for 300 members: the next power of two >= 600
std::vector<std::string> colliding;
std::vector<std::string> spread;
for (std::uint64_t counter = 0; colliding.size() < members || spread.size() < members; ++counter)
{
std::string key(8, 'a');
std::uint64_t x = counter;
for (std::size_t i = 0; i < 8; ++i, x /= 26)
{
key[i] = static_cast<char>('a' + (x % 26));
}
const bool lands_in_slot_zero = (nlohmann::detail::view::key_hash(key.data(), key.size()) & (table_size - 1)) == 0;
if (lands_in_slot_zero && colliding.size() < members)
{
colliding.push_back(key);
}
else if (!lands_in_slot_zero && spread.size() < members)
{
spread.push_back(key);
}
}
const auto make_text = [](const std::vector<std::string>& keys)
{
std::string text = "{";
for (std::size_t i = 0; i < keys.size(); ++i)
{
text += (i != 0 ? ",\"" : "\"") + keys[i] + "\":" + std::to_string(i % 10);
}
return text + "}";
};
const std::string colliding_text = make_text(colliding);
const std::string spread_text = make_text(spread);
json_document with_collisions = json_document::parse(colliding_text);
json_document without_collisions = json_document::parse(spread_text);
for (const auto* pair :
{
&colliding, &spread
})
{
const json_view v = (pair == &colliding ? with_collisions : without_collisions).root();
for (std::size_t i = 0; i < members; ++i)
{
CAPTURE(i)
CHECK(v[(*pair)[i]].get<std::size_t>() == i % 10);
CHECK(v.at((*pair)[i]).get<std::size_t>() == i % 10);
CHECK(v.find((*pair)[i]).key() == (*pair)[i]);
CHECK(!v.contains((*pair)[i] + "x"));
}
CHECK(!v.contains("missing"));
}
CHECK(with_collisions.root() == json::parse(colliding_text));
// only the object with the spread keys got a table (both texts have the
// same length, so the tables are the only difference)
with_collisions.shrink_to_fit();
without_collisions.shrink_to_fit();
CHECK(without_collisions.memory_usage() >= with_collisions.memory_usage() + (table_size * sizeof(std::uint32_t)));
}
SECTION("keys that differ in their last bytes are spread over the table")
{
// The hash must spread the usual families of keys (numbered names, hex
// strings, dates, short names): a key farther than index_max_displacement
// from its home slot would leave the object without a table. The keys
// are placed with linear probing, as the table does.
const auto max_displacement = [](const std::vector<std::string>& keys)
{
std::size_t slots = 16;
while (slots < 2 * keys.size())
{
slots *= 2;
}
std::vector<bool> used(slots, false);
std::size_t farthest = 0;
for (const std::string& key : keys)
{
std::size_t i = nlohmann::detail::conditional_static_cast<std::size_t>(nlohmann::detail::view::key_hash(key.data(), key.size())) & (slots - 1);
std::size_t distance = 0;
while (used[i])
{
i = (i + 1) & (slots - 1);
++distance;
}
used[i] = true;
farthest = (std::max)(farthest, distance);
}
return farthest;
};
// the keys of a printf-like pattern with one %d, %0Nd or %0Nx, formatted with a stream
// (a format string that is not a literal is a Flawfinder error)
const auto numbered = [](const char* format, int count, int step)
{
const std::string pattern(format);
const std::size_t percent = pattern.find('%');
std::size_t conversion = percent + 1;
std::size_t width = 0;
while (pattern[conversion] >= '0' && pattern[conversion] <= '9')
{
width = (width * 10) + static_cast<std::size_t>(pattern[conversion] - '0');
++conversion;
}
const bool hex = pattern[conversion] == 'x';
std::vector<std::string> keys;
for (int i = 0; i < count; ++i)
{
std::ostringstream key;
key << pattern.substr(0, percent) << std::setfill('0') << std::setw(static_cast<int>(width))
<< (hex ? std::hex : std::dec) << (i * step) << pattern.substr(conversion + 1);
keys.push_back(key.str());
}
return keys;
};
for (const char* format :
{"key%d", "%d", "item_%04d", "a%05d", "%03dxyz", "id%d", "user_%d", "%d_suffix", "0x%04x", "A%07d", "12345678%d", "1234567%d", "123456789%d",
"configuration_parameter_value_%04d_extra", "2026-01-%02dT00:00:00Z"
})
{
CAPTURE(format)
CHECK(max_displacement(numbered(format, std::string(format).find("%02d") != std::string::npos ? 60 : 1000, 1)) < nlohmann::detail::view::index_max_displacement); // NOLINT(abseil-string-find-str-contains)
CHECK(max_displacement(numbered(format, 600, 7)) < nlohmann::detail::view::index_max_displacement);
}
std::mt19937_64 rng(7); // NOLINT(cert-msc32-c,cert-msc51-cpp,bugprone-random-generator-seed)
for (const std::size_t length :
{
std::size_t{1}, std::size_t{2}, std::size_t{3}, std::size_t{5}, std::size_t{7}, std::size_t{8}, std::size_t{9}, std::size_t{12}, std::size_t{16}, std::size_t{17}, std::size_t{33}
})
{
CAPTURE(length)
std::set<std::string> distinct;
// (there are 26 and 676 keys of one and two letters)
std::size_t wanted = 700;
if (length == 1)
{
wanted = 26;
}
else if (length == 2)
{
wanted = 500;
}
while (distinct.size() < wanted)
{
std::string key(length, 'a');
for (char& c : key)
{
c = static_cast<char>('a' + (rng() % 26));
}
distinct.insert(key);
}
CHECK(max_displacement(std::vector<std::string>(distinct.begin(), distinct.end())) < nlohmann::detail::view::index_max_displacement);
}
}
SECTION("keys of every length that differ in one byte")
{
// In a large object, a key is found by comparing its bytes with those of the member the
// table points to: up to 16 bytes as two overlapping words, longer ones with memcmp.
// Keys of every length from 0 to 40, and keys that differ from them in one byte.
std::mt19937_64 rng(2026); // NOLINT(cert-msc32-c,cert-msc51-cpp,bugprone-random-generator-seed)
std::vector<std::string> keys;
std::set<std::string> distinct;
for (std::size_t length = 0; length <= 40; ++length)
{
for (int copy = 0; copy < 5; ++copy)
{
std::string key(length, 'a');
for (char& c : key)
{
c = static_cast<char>('a' + (rng() % 26));
}
if (distinct.insert(key).second)
{
keys.push_back(key);
}
}
}
std::string text = "{";
for (std::size_t i = 0; i < keys.size(); ++i)
{
text += (i != 0 ? ",\"" : "\"") + keys[i] + "\":" + std::to_string(i);
}
text += "}";
REQUIRE(keys.size() >= 128); // (a table is built for 128 members)
const json_document d = json_document::parse(text);
const json_view v = d.root();
for (std::size_t i = 0; i < keys.size(); ++i)
{
CAPTURE(keys[i])
CHECK(v[keys[i]].get<std::size_t>() == i);
CHECK(v.at(keys[i]).get<std::size_t>() == i);
CHECK(v.contains(keys[i]));
for (std::size_t at = 0; at < keys[i].size(); ++at)
{
std::string other = keys[i];
other[at] = other[at] == 'z' ? 'y' : 'z';
CAPTURE(other)
CHECK(v.contains(other) == (distinct.count(other) != 0));
}
CHECK(v.contains(keys[i] + "a") == (distinct.count(keys[i] + "a") != 0));
if (!keys[i].empty())
{
CHECK(v.contains(keys[i].substr(1)) == (distinct.count(keys[i].substr(1)) != 0));
}
}
}
SECTION("shrink_to_fit releases the tables' spare capacity")
{
const auto make_text = [](int objects, int members)
{
std::string text = "[";
for (int object = 0; object < objects; ++object)
{
text += object != 0 ? ",{" : "{";
for (int i = 0, n = members + object; i < n; ++i)
{
text += (i != 0 ? ",\"" : "\"") + std::to_string(i) + "\":" + std::to_string(i);
}
text += '}';
}
return text + "]";
};
const std::string small_text = make_text(5, 150);
const std::string big_text = make_text(40, 400);
// reading a big text, and then a small one, leaves the spare capacity
// of the big one: shrink_to_fit() brings the document to the size of
// one parsed from the small text alone
json_document d = json_document::parse(big_text);
const std::size_t big = d.memory_usage();
d.read(small_text);
CHECK(d.memory_usage() >= big);
d.shrink_to_fit();
json_document fresh = json_document::parse(small_text);
fresh.shrink_to_fit();
CHECK(d.memory_usage() == fresh.memory_usage());
CHECK(d.memory_usage() < big / 2);
CHECK(d.root() == json::parse(small_text));
for (int object = 0; object < 5; ++object)
{
const json_view v = d.root()[static_cast<std::size_t>(object)];
for (int i = 0, n = 150 + object; i < n; ++i)
{
CHECK(v[std::to_string(i)].get<int>() == i);
}
}
}
SECTION("nested, reused, and in arrays")
{
std::string inner = "{";
for (int i = 0; i < 300; ++i)
{
inner += (i != 0 ? ",\"m" : "\"m") + std::to_string(i) + "\":" + std::to_string(i);
}
inner += '}';
const std::string text = "[" + inner + ",{\"x\":" + inner + "}," + inner + "]";
json_document d = json_document::parse(text);
CHECK(d.root()[0]["m299"].get<int>() == 299);
CHECK(d.root()[1]["x"]["m150"].get<int>() == 150);
CHECK(d.root()[2]["m0"].get<int>() == 0);
const std::size_t with_index = d.memory_usage();
d.read(std::string("{\"small\": 1}"));
CHECK(d.root()["small"].get<int>() == 1);
d.read(text);
CHECK(d.root()[2]["m7"].get<int>() == 7);
CHECK(d.memory_usage() >= with_index / 2);
}
}