json_view: dump() without StringType::capacity() (#5999)

* json_view: dump() without StringType::capacity() (#5994)

output_buffer::grow() compared the output size with m_out.capacity(),
which the StringType requirements do not include, so dump() did not
compile with the tests' alt_string. Keep what was last reserved in the
buffer itself and use it as a lower bound of the capacity instead.

Add json_view tests with alt_string (read-only and editable documents,
dump with several growth steps, save/load), and document reserve(n) and
resize(n) as the StringType requirements of basic_json_view::dump.

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

* Use a raw string literal in the alt-string json_view test

clang-tidy (modernize-raw-string-literal) rejects the escaped literal.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N5NasAgbDGG28MqXjQvLqp
Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

tests/src/unit-alt-string.cpp

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include "doctest_compatibility.h"
 
 #include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
+#include <nlohmann/json_view.hpp>
 
 #include <cstdint>
 #include <string>
@@ -483,4 +484,56 @@ TEST_CASE("alternative string type")
     }
 }
 
+TEST_CASE("alternative string type with json_view")
+{
+    // regression test for #5994: basic_json_view::dump() called
+    // StringType::capacity(), which alt_string (and the documented StringType
+    // requirements) do not provide
+    using alt_document = nlohmann::basic_json_document<alt_json, nlohmann::view_mode::read_only>;
+    using alt_editable_document = nlohmann::basic_json_document<alt_json, nlohmann::view_mode::editable>;
+
+    const char* text = R"({"a":[1,"x\u00e4"],"b":{"c":true,"d":null},"e":2.5})";
+    const alt_json j = alt_json::parse(text);
+
+    SECTION("read-only document")
+    {
+        const alt_document d = alt_document::parse(text);
+        CHECK(d.root().dump() == j.dump());
+        CHECK(d.root().dump(2) == j.dump(2));
+        CHECK(d.root().dump(-1, ' ', true) == j.dump(-1, ' ', true));
+        CHECK(d.root().materialize() == j);
+        CHECK(d.root().contains(alt_string("b")));
+        CHECK(d.root()[alt_string("b")][alt_string("c")].dump() == "true");
+    }
+
+    SECTION("long output")
+    {
+        // more than one growth step of the output buffer
+        alt_json big = alt_json::array();
+        for (int i = 0; i < 20000; ++i)
+        {
+            big.push_back(alt_json::parse(text));
+        }
+        const alt_string big_text = big.dump();
+        const alt_document d = alt_document::parse(big_text);
+        CHECK(d.root().dump() == big_text);
+        CHECK(d.root().dump(4) == big.dump(4));
+    }
+
+    SECTION("editable document")
+    {
+        alt_editable_document d = alt_editable_document::parse(text);
+        d.set(d.root(), "f", "new");
+        d.push_back(d.root()[alt_string("a")], 3);
+        alt_json expected = j;
+        expected["f"] = "new";
+        expected["a"].push_back(3);
+        CHECK(d.root().materialize() == expected);
+        CHECK(alt_json::parse(d.root().dump()) == expected);
+
+        const alt_editable_document loaded = alt_editable_document::load(d.save());
+        CHECK(loaded.root().materialize() == expected);
+    }
+}
+
 DOCTEST_CLANG_SUPPRESS_WARNING_POP