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trdesilva a0a4e7cc0b Add front methods to json_pointers (implements #4889) (#5152)
* Added front, pop_front, and push_front methods to json_pointers in order to facilitate root-to-leaf traversals of JSON object trees. (#4889)

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* undid VS autoformatting in irrelevant code

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* Ran make amalgamate, added navigation to json_pointer's new front methods in mkdocs, and fixed errors in documented complexity for those methods.

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* Fixed GCC 4.8 compile error caused by const iterators

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* Fixed another gcc-4.8 compile error

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* amalgamated

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nlohmann::json_pointer::front

const string_t& front() const;

Return the first reference token.

Return value

First reference token.

Exceptions

Throws out_of_range.405 if the JSON pointer has no parent.

Complexity

Constant.

Examples

??? example

The example shows the usage of `front`.
 
```cpp
--8<-- "examples/json_pointer__front.cpp"
```

Output:

```json
--8<-- "examples/json_pointer__front.output"
```

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