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Niels Lohmann 061c30310e Document json_document and json_view
- 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>
2026-09-30 20:58:44 +02:00

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#include <array>
#include <iostream>
#include <nlohmann/json_view.hpp>
using json_document = nlohmann::json_document;
int main()
{
// three incoming messages; skip the ones that are not useful without ever
// building a nlohmann::json value for them
json_document heartbeat = json_document::parse("null");
json_document empty_batch = json_document::parse("[]");
json_document batch = json_document::parse(R"([{"id": 1}, {"id": 2}, {"id": 3}])");
std::array<const json_document*, 3> messages = {{&heartbeat, &empty_batch, &batch}};
for (const json_document* d : messages)
{
// is_array()/empty() only look at the flat index: a discarded
// heartbeat or an empty batch is never turned into a nlohmann::json
// value, so no per-element allocation happens for them
if (!d->root().is_array() || d->root().empty())
{
std::cout << "skipped\n";
continue;
}
// materialize() replays the subtree through the same SAX builder
// basic_json::parse() uses, so the result is exactly what
// basic_json::parse() would have produced for the same text
nlohmann::json value = d->root().materialize();
std::cout << value.dump() << '\n';
}
}