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Niels Lohmann a32f61eb98 Fix update() and merge_patch() when the argument is *this or one of its members (#5678) 2026-09-30 23:04:57 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 1d675cdb46 Fix CI jobs that check less than they claim; move arm64 to GitHub (#5733)
* Fix the ci_cmake_flags wiring so every option is checked

The CMake 3.31.6 flag list referred to itself before it was defined,
so only JSON_BuildTests was checked with that version. The targets for
the CMake running the build ("_2") were created but never added to
ci_cmake_flags, and the three versions shared one build directory.
JSON_StrictNulHandling was not in the list at all.

Use the 3.5.0 list for 3.31.6, add JSON_StrictNulHandling, and create
one ci_cmake_flag_<flag> target per option for the running CMake with
its own build directory. Also use the function parameter in the
COMMENT, refresh the stale version comment, and let ci_clean remove
the downloaded cmake-<version> directories instead of the long-gone
cmake-3.5.0-Darwin64.

Part of #5715

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

* Fix ci_test_clang_libcxx_cxx* jobs silently building without warnings

CMake only seeds CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS from the CXXFLAGS environment variable
when the cache entry is unset, so the explicit -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-stdlib=libc++"
argument made it ignore CXXFLAGS="${CLANG_CXXFLAGS}" entirely. The six
ci_test_standards_clang (..., libcxx) jobs therefore compiled without
-Weverything/-Werror while their libstdc++ siblings did use them.

Pass -stdlib=libc++ through the same CXXFLAGS value instead of a separate
-D argument, and give the target its own build directory
(build_clang_libcxx_cxx${CXX_STANDARD}) so it no longer shares a CMake
cache with the libstdc++ variant. Suppress the resulting
-Wthread-safety-negative finding from libc++'s std::mutex annotations,
which fires on doctest's reporters in this translation unit only.

Part of #5715

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

* Remove the no-op AppVeyor with_win_header job

The with_win_header matrix entry patched Windows.h into
single_include/nlohmann/json.hpp before building, but JSON_MultipleHeaders
has defaulted to ON since #3532 (2022-06), so CMakeLists.txt points the
tests at include/ and the patched single header is never compiled. The
job has been a no-op VS2015 build since then.

Windows.h coverage already exists through tests/src/unit-windows_h.cpp
(#3631), which runs in every MSVC job. Delete the dead matrix entry and
its before_build steps, and cite unit-windows_h.cpp from the QA page.

Part of #5715

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

* Remove unused ci_oclint and ci_pvs_studio targets

No workflow invokes ci_oclint, ci_pvs_studio, or their tool discovery.
ci_oclint also had a side effect on every JSON_CI configure: it copied
the single header into src_single/all.cpp and added an add_executable()
for it without EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL, so a plain build compiled a 1.2 MB
translation unit that only that unused target consumed. ci_pvs_studio
duplicates the Makefile's pvs_studio target, which is kept.

Also drop the duplicate --check-level=exhaustive flag passed twice to
the same ci_cppcheck invocation.

Part of #5715

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

* Stop Dependabot from proposing astyle bumps

astyle is deliberately pinned at 3.4.13 because newer versions reformat
unrelated lines and this version defines the formatting that
check_amalgamation.yml enforces. Without an ignore rule, Dependabot
keeps opening PRs for every new astyle release (most recently #4580,
#4942, #5445, #5448), each of which fails the amalgamation check and
gets closed unmerged.

Part of #5715

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

* Move Linux arm64 CI from dead Cirrus CI to ubuntu-24.04-arm

Cirrus CI stopped reporting check runs on develop sometime after
d10879bca (2026-05-26); every commit since has only github-actions
check runs, so .cirrus.yml silently lost its only consumer while
README.md, FILES.md and the QA page kept advertising the coverage.

Add a ci_test_arm64 job to ubuntu.yml using the same pinned
actions/checkout and lukka/get-cmake actions as the other jobs, on the
native ubuntu-24.04-arm runner, with a step that confirms uname -m
reports aarch64. Delete .cirrus.yml and its README badge and FILES.md
section, and update the QA page's arm64 row.

Part of #5715

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

* Make scan-build fail on findings and drop irrelevant checkers (#5715 item 4a)

ci_clang_analyze ran scan-build without --status-bugs, so the job
passed whenever the ninja build succeeded, no matter what the
analyzer found ("No bugs found" in a green run gave no signal either
way). It is also missing --use-analyzer=${CLANG_TOOL}, so scan-build
picks whichever clang happens to be first on PATH inside the
silkeh/clang:dev container instead of the one this file already
selected and versioned.

Add --status-bugs and --use-analyzer=${CLANG_TOOL} to the scan-build
invocation. While here, drop the osx.*, webkit.*, fuchsia.*, and
optin.mpi.* checkers from CLANG_ANALYZER_CHECKS: none of them apply
to this portable C++ library, and leaving them enabled only adds
noise once the job can actually fail on a finding.

The job is currently clean (0 bugs), so this alone does not surface
any new finding; it only makes the existing "no bugs found" result
authoritative. This is 4a of 3 independent steps in #5715 item 4;
4b (Infer) and 4c (IWYU) still need their existing findings triaged
before --fail-on-issue/-Xiwyu --error can be added, and are handled
in separate commits.

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

* Deduplicate the amalgamation/format check's file set and add BUILD.bazel (#5715 item 5)

The amalgamation/format check existed three times with three different
file sets: the Makefile's pretty/check-amalgamation, the pull_request-only
check_amalgamation.yml workflow, and the ci_test_amalgamation CMake target
that also runs on direct pushes to develop/master/release/*. The CMake
target's glob was a strict subset of the workflow's (missing the
docs/mkdocs/docs/examples/*.hpp headers, tests/abi/, tests/cmake_*/project/,
tests/cuda_example/, tests/fmt_formatter/, and tests/module_cpp20/), and it
never checked BUILD.bazel at all, so a misformatted file in any of those
paths, or a stale BUILD.bazel, could reach develop through a direct push
even though the PR-only workflow would have caught it.

Make ci_test_amalgamation glob the same roots (docs/mkdocs/docs/examples,
include, tests) and extensions (*.hpp, *.cpp, *.cu) as check_amalgamation.yml,
excluding tests/thirdparty/ and tests/abi/include/nlohmann/ the same way, and
regenerate and diff BUILD.bazel next to json.hpp/json_fwd.hpp. Also add
docs/mkdocs/docs/examples/*.hpp to the Makefile's pretty/pretty_format
targets, which were missing the four custom_*_type.hpp example headers, and
drop the stale "called by Travis" comment on check-amalgamation (Travis is
gone; nothing currently calls that Makefile target from CI).

Leaves the workflow itself untouched: it deliberately runs amalgamate.py
from a fresh develop checkout so a PR cannot change the tool that checks it.

Overlaps #5610 and #5621, which each add a new amalgamated header and touch
the same INDENT_FILES/ci_test_amalgamation/check_amalgamation.yml hunks.

Verified with `make check-amalgamation` on this branch: clean, no diff.
#5715 item 5.

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

* Download prebuilt CMake binaries on Linux x86_64 instead of building from source (#5715 item 6)

ci_get_cmake() downloaded the source tarball of CMake 3.5.0, 3.31.6, and
4.0.0 and compiled each one completely (including CMake's own test
helpers) with -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 as a workaround for
building old CMake with a newer one. On CI this made the
ci_cmake_options (ci_cmake_flags) job take about 11 minutes, most of it
spent building CMake itself, even though Kitware has published
ready-to-run Linux x86_64 archives for all three of these releases
since 3.20 (lowercase platform name).

On Linux x86_64, download and unpack the prebuilt
cmake-<version>-linux-x86_64.tar.gz archive instead and point the
existing ${var} output at its bin/cmake, skipping the configure/build
steps and CMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM entirely. Keep the previous
source build as a fallback for any other platform (macOS, Linux
aarch64), since Kitware does not publish binaries for every
CMake/platform combination this project might build on.

Verify the downloaded archive against Kitware's own published checksum
before unpacking it: download cmake-<version>-SHA-256.txt alongside the
archive and run `sha256sum -c` on the matching line. A CI job that wgets
and untars a binary from a release page with no integrity check is a
supply-chain gap; Kitware has published this file for every release
since 3.20, so checking it costs one extra download and one grep.

As a separate, mechanical change: the ci_cmake_options job's container
only needed to stay on ubuntu:focal for the source build's
libssl-dev dependency and its own aging toolchain; now that the
Linux/x86_64 path never compiles CMake, drop libssl-dev from its apt
install line and move the job to ubuntu:24.04 (Ubuntu 20.04 left
standard support in May 2025). ci_clean already removes the
cmake-3.5.0/cmake-3.31.6/cmake-4.0.0 directories from the #5715 item 3
fix, and the prebuilt path reuses those same directory names, so no
further cleanup changes are needed.

Overlaps #5598, which edits the same ci_cmake_options matrix line in
ubuntu.yml; a rebase may be needed once that lands.

Verified locally: `cmake -S . -B build -DJSON_CI=On` configures cleanly
on macOS/arm64 (source-build fallback branch) and on Linux/x86_64 in an
ubuntu:24.04 Docker container (47 `ci_cmake_flag_*` targets generated,
one built and run successfully); `.github/workflows/ubuntu.yml` still
parses as valid YAML; downloaded the real v3.31.6 Linux x86_64 archive
and SHA-256 file from Kitware and confirmed the `grep | sha256sum -c`
pipeline both accepts the genuine file and is anchored to the exact
filename (not a prefix match).

CI must confirm: the prebuilt-binary path actually runs on the
ubuntu-latest/ubuntu:24.04 x86_64 runner, all `ci_cmake_options`
entries still pass with the new container's GCC, and the job's
runtime drops from roughly 11 minutes.

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

* Make Infer fail on findings, with a type-level baseline for the ~174 pre-existing ones (#5715 item 4b)

ci_infer ran `infer run` without --fail-on-issue, so the job passed
regardless of what Pulse found; the last recorded run (35829411620,
commit 1054b2097) logged "Found 174 issues" and still went green.
report.txt was also never uploaded, so the full finding list was only
ever visible in the truncated 5-issue console excerpt.

Add a repository-root .inferconfig (auto-discovered by Infer; passing
--project-root on the `infer run` invocation makes sure it is found
even though the analysis runs from build/build_infer) that sets
fail-on-issue and disables the six PULSE issue types that made up all
174 findings in that run: PULSE_UNNECESSARY_COPY_ASSIGNMENT (129),
PULSE_UNNECESSARY_COPY (22), PULSE_UNNECESSARY_COPY_INTERMEDIATE (15),
PULSE_RESOURCE_LEAK (5), PULSE_CONST_REFABLE (2), and
PULSE_UNNECESSARY_COPY_OPTIONAL (1).

This is a deliberate, narrower fix than "triage and fix everything in
this PR": the visible sample is entirely doctest-macro copies in test
code (for example tests/src/unit-algorithms.cpp:141 and
tests/src/unit-bjdata.cpp:3706), but 169 of the 174 findings were never
uploaded anywhere and this PR cannot respectably claim to have fixed
issues it never saw, including the resource-leak and const-refable
ones that are the most likely to be genuine bugs. Disabling by issue
type is a coarser baseline than a per-finding one (Infer has no
built-in per-finding baseline short of the two-run `infer reportdiff`
workflow, which this repository does not have the CI infrastructure
for), but it has the same effect today: the job goes from always green
to green-only-when-clean-of-everything-else, so CI now fails the
moment a *new* issue type appears, and report.txt is uploaded as a
workflow artifact on every run (including failures) so the six
disabled types can be triaged and re-enabled incrementally in follow-up
PRs.

#5715 item 4b. 4a (scan-build) and 4c (IWYU) are handled in separate
commits.

Verified: .inferconfig parses as JSON, ubuntu.yml still parses as
YAML. Infer itself is not available in this environment (v1.3.0 tar.xz
requires a Linux x86_64 runner), so CI must confirm that `infer run
--project-root ... -- make` picks up .inferconfig, that fail-on-issue
takes effect, and that the six disabled types actually suppress the
existing findings without also hiding an unrelated new one.

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

* Fix IWYU findings for json.hpp/json_fwd.hpp/ordered_map.hpp and make CI fail on new ones (#5715 item 4c)

ci_single_binaries ran IWYU via CMake's CXX_INCLUDE_WHAT_YOU_USE launcher
property, which only printed "Warning: include-what-you-use reported
diagnostics" without failing the build: CMake's own __run_co_compile
wrapper does not propagate the launched tool's exit code, so even
`-Xiwyu --error` could never fail `cmake --build` this way. Verified
this empirically by injecting a deliberately-unused #include and
confirming the build still exited 0.

Fix the findings from the last recorded run (issue #5715 item 4, log
35829411620):
- ordered_map.hpp: add <new> (placement new) and
  nlohmann/detail/abi_macros.hpp; drop <memory> (std::allocator is
  still visible transitively via <vector>, confirmed by full local and
  containerized test suite runs).
- json_fwd.hpp: drop <memory> (same reasoning). Keep every forward
  declaration IWYU wanted removed (adl_serializer, basic_json,
  json_pointer, ordered_map): this file's only job is to forward-declare
  them for downstream users, so "nothing in this TU uses them" is
  expected, not a real finding. Mark each with `// IWYU pragma: keep`.
- json.hpp: add <cmath>, <cstdint>, <set>, <type_traits>,
  <unordered_map>, and the detail/abi_macros.hpp, detail/input/json_sax.hpp,
  detail/meta/detected.hpp, thirdparty/hedley/hedley.hpp includes IWYU
  says it needs. Do NOT remove adl_serializer.hpp,
  detail/conversions/from_json.hpp, detail/conversions/to_json.hpp,
  detail/macro_unscope.hpp, or ordered_map.hpp as IWYU suggests: nothing
  else in include/nlohmann includes adl_serializer.hpp or
  ordered_map.hpp, so basic_json<>'s own default template arguments
  (JSONSerializer = adl_serializer, and ordered_json = basic_json<ordered_map>)
  would lose their complete type; detail/macro_unscope.hpp is what
  undoes the JSON_* macros detail/macro_scope.hpp defines earlier in
  this same file, and removing it leaks those macros into every
  translation unit that includes <nlohmann/json.hpp>. Verified by
  actually removing them in a scratch test: the header still "compiles"
  stand-alone but ordered_json and every macro-using translation unit
  break. Marked each `// IWYU pragma: keep`.

Enforce it with `iwyu_tool` (ships with IWYU, e.g. as /usr/bin/iwyu_tool
on Debian/Ubuntu) instead of relying on the launcher property: it reads
compile_commands.json (now exported project-wide under JSON_CI) and
does return a real exit code for its own analysis, independent of
CMake's wrapper. ci_single_binaries now runs it over every
src_single/*.cpp with `-Xiwyu --error`, so a *new* finding fails CI.

json.hpp itself is excluded from that hard gate: even after every fix
above, IWYU's suggestion for one remaining symbol (a container
`swap, operator!=` used somewhere via a templated comparator) is not
deterministic — repeated, otherwise-identical containerized runs
reported <set>, then <unordered_map>, then <map> as "the" header to
add/remove for the exact same source. Gating a whole CI job on a
nondeterministic suggestion would make ci_single_binaries flaky rather
than informative, so json.hpp keeps the existing informational warning
(still shown during its normal compile) without failing the build on
it. Every other one of the ~50 single-header checks is included in the
hard gate.

#5715 item 4c. 4a (scan-build) and 4b (Infer) are separate commits.

Verified: full local ctest suite (129/129) and the ci_single_binaries
target itself both green in a containerized silkeh/clang:dev run
(matching the actual CI job) after this fix; a deliberately-reintroduced
unused #include in ordered_map.hpp was confirmed to fail
`cmake --build ... --target ci_single_binaries` (exit 2) with this
change, and to pass without it, on the same container/IWYU version CI
uses. `make check-amalgamation` is clean. Compiled with Clang and GCC
at -std=c++11/14/17/20 locally with no new warnings.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-30 22:49:24 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 791cd88dfc Fix raw-TeX formulas and other documentation infrastructure debt (#5736)
* Fix math formulas rendering as raw TeX in the published docs

The privacy plugin self-hosts MathJax 2.7.0 but drops its
?config=TeX-MML-AM_CHTML query string, so the rehosted script loads no
input jax and the 10 formulas across 6 pages render as raw TeX to
readers. Remove pymdownx.arithmatex and the MathJax extra_javascript
entry, and rewrite the formulas in plain HTML (<sup>, <i>) instead.
This also drops a nine-year-old third-party script from every page.

Part of #5718

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

* Fix publish_documentation triggers and persist unneeded git credentials

publish_documentation.yml only triggered on docs/mkdocs/** pushes, but
the site also embeds .github/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, CONTRIBUTING.md,
SECURITY.md, cmake/{clang,gcc}_flags.cmake, .clang-tidy,
tools/astyle/.astylerc and tests/fmt_formatter/project/main.cpp via
pymdownx.snippets, so changes to those files never republished the
site. Extend the path filter to cover them, and switch runs-on from
the long-pinned ubuntu-22.04 to ubuntu-latest to match
ci_test_documentation.

Also add persist-credentials: false to the checkouts in ci_icpx and
ci_nvhpc (ubuntu.yml) and msvc-vs2026/msvc-arm64 (windows.yml), none
of which pushes with git, matching every other checkout in these
workflows.

Part of #5718

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

* Fix example build: broken debug echo, deprecations hidden for everything

docs/Makefile's debug echo used a space instead of a comma in
$(call cxx_standard ...), so it always printed an empty standard.
Every example was also compiled with -Wno-deprecated-declarations,
which would silently hide an accidental deprecated-API call in any of
them. Factor the duplicated compile flags into EXAMPLE_CPPFLAGS/
EXAMPLE_WARNFLAGS, build with -Werror=deprecated-declarations by
default, and only allow the three examples that intentionally
document deprecated API (the DEPRECATED_EXAMPLES list) to suppress it.

Part of #5718

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

* Fix check_structure.py NOLINT parsing and an off-by-one report line

`line.strip("<!-- NOLINT")` followed by `.strip(" -->")` strips any of
the characters in those sets from both ends, not a literal prefix; it
only happened to work for "Examples". A NOLINT'd section name
starting with N, O, L, I or T (e.g. "Notes", "Template parameters",
"Iterator invalidation", "Literals") was silently mangled, so the
suppression did not apply and the checker could report a spurious
missing/misordered section. Parse the comment with a regex instead.
The same fragile strip() pattern was used for heading text; replace it
with a plain prefix slice. Also fix the admonition_title report, which
used the 0-based line index while every other report in the file uses
lineno+1.

Part of #5718

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

* Fix docset README's non-existent make target and stale fallback URL

The README told readers to run `make nlohmann_json.docset`, but the
Makefile's targets are `all`, `JSON_for_Modern_C++.docset` and
`install_docset_zeal`; the documented command has failed with "No
rule to make target" since #2967 (2021). Point the README at the real
target and folder name. Info.plist's DashDocSetFallbackURL also still
pointed at the old nlohmann.github.io/json/ URL instead of the
canonical https://json.nlohmann.me/ from mkdocs.yml's site_url.

Leave list_missing_pages/list_removed_paths alone: they may become
redundant once #5638's check_docset() lands, which is a follow-up.

Part of #5718

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

* Remove two leftover Doxygen-era .link files from the examples directory

parse__iterator_pair.link and parse__pointers.link each held only a
Wandbox "online" permalink from the old Doxygen docs. #3071 deleted
every other .link file in 2021; these two came in through a parallel
PR (#3100) and were never referenced by any page, script or config.

Part of #5718

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

* Fix MacPorts CMake example to include its own snippet files

The MacPorts "Example: CMake" block included
integration/homebrew/example.cpp and
integration/homebrew/CMakeLists.txt instead of the MacPorts files
right next to it, a copy-paste slip from the Homebrew section. Nothing
referenced integration/macports/CMakeLists.txt as a result. The page
rendered correctly only because the homebrew, macports and
vcpkg/CMakeLists.txt snippets are byte-identical, so a future edit to
the MacPorts files would not have shown up on the page.

Part of #5718 item 6

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

* Do not persist git credentials in publish_documentation's checkout

The checkout step in publish_documentation.yml left the default
persist-credentials: true, so GITHUB_TOKEN stayed writable in
.git/config for the rest of the job (zizmor's artipacked finding). The
Deploy documentation step authenticates through its own github_token
input to peaceiris/actions-gh-pages and does not push with the
checked-out credentials, so persist-credentials: false is safe here,
matching every other checkout in the workflow set.

Overlaps #5638, which edits this same checkout step (adds
fetch-depth: 0); expect a rebase conflict there.

Part of #5718 item 2

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

* Replace list_missing_pages/list_removed_paths with a comm(1)-based diff

The docset Makefile's list_missing_pages ran one sqlite3 query per
mkdocs page, and list_removed_paths nested a loop over all mkdocs pages
inside a loop over all docset index paths (O(n*m) shell iteration).
Issue #5718 item 5 suggested removing or reducing these targets once
#5638's check_docset() lands, but that PR is still open and covers only
API pages and macros, not the full page set these targets check.
Replace the loops with two sorted path lists (DOCSET_PAGE_PATHS from
mkdocs' markdown sources, DOCSET_INDEX_PATHS from the built docset
index) compared with a single comm(1) call each, verified to produce
output identical to the old loops against the current docSet.dsidx.

The sed expression used '#' as its delimiter, which GNU Make reads as
a comment character even inside a variable assignment, truncating the
line and orphaning the closing paren of $(shell ...) ("unterminated
call to function 'shell': missing ')'"). Use '@' as the delimiter
instead.

Part of #5718 item 5

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-30 22:15:20 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 3b6ae43c53 Add JSON_DISABLE_TUPLE_REFERENCE_CONVERSION to fix std::tuple conversions (#5598)
* Add JSON_DISABLE_TUPLE_REFERENCE_CONVERSION to fix std::tuple conversions

basic_json can be constructed from std::tuple<json&>, which it turns into
a one-element array. Because of this, std::tuple picks its converting
constructor that converts the whole source tuple instead of the
element-wise one. As a result, std::tuple<const json&> built from
std::forward_as_tuple(j) binds to a temporary (a compile error with libc++,
a dangling reference with other standard libraries), and std::tuple<json>
built the same way holds [j] instead of a copy of j.

The new opt-in macro JSON_DISABLE_TUPLE_REFERENCE_CONVERSION (CMake option
JSON_DisableTupleReferenceConversion) removes the conversion from a
one-element tuple holding a reference to the same basic_json type, so
std::tuple converts element-wise. It is off by default, so existing
behavior is unchanged. It does not change any function body and therefore
is not part of the ABI tag.

Fixes #2226

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

* Convert one-element tuples to arrays on every compiler

to_json for std::tuple assigns a braced list, j = { std::get<Idx>(t)... }.
With a single element that is itself a basic_json, Apple clang 15 and 16
treat j = {x} as a copy of x, so std::tuple<json>{true} became true
instead of [true]. The macOS jobs (Xcode 15.1, 16.1) failed the new
checks in unit-disable-tuple-reference-conversion and unit-regression2.

The one-element overload that already handles
JSON_BRACE_INIT_COPY_SEMANTICS builds the array (or object, for a
[string, value] element) explicitly, the same way the initializer-list
constructor does. Use it unconditionally. The output is unchanged on
compilers that already wrapped the element.

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

* Skip json reference tuple tests on clang < 4 and GCC < 5

ci_test_compilers_gcc_old (4.8) and ci_test_compilers_clang (3.4) could
not compile the new tuple tests. Creating a std::tuple of basic_json
references, e.g. std::forward_as_tuple(j), makes these compilers
instantiate basic_json's conversion operator for libstdc++'s internal
tuple bases, which fails hard. This happens with and without
JSON_DISABLE_TUPLE_REFERENCE_CONVERSION, so it is a limitation of these
compilers, not of the new option.

Tested with the CI images: clang 3.4 to 3.9 and GCC 4.8 and 4.9 fail,
clang 4, 5, and 6 and GCC 5 and 6 compile all cases. Skip only the
checks that create such tuples; the is_constructible checks still run.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-30 20:53:56 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 6a073dbae4 Give operator>> a strong exception-safety guarantee (#5695)
operator>> parsed directly into its basic_json& target, so a parse
error left the target holding whatever was parsed before the error
instead of its previous value. With JSON_DIAGNOSTICS=1, that partial
value also violated the class invariant, because the parent pointers
of an array or object's elements are only set when the container is
closed, which a failed parse never reaches; copying such a value then
aborted in assert_invariant().

Fix it the way basic_json::parse() already handles this: parse into a
temporary and move it into the target only once parsing succeeds, so
the target is left unchanged if an exception is thrown.

Fixes #5652.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-30 20:13:34 +02:00
Niels Lohmann fdcc569eee Use only documented StringType members in json_pointer (#5692)
contains(const json_pointer&) and operator/=(std::size_t) (and hence
operator/(std::size_t)) used string_t operations that the StringType
template parameter documentation explicitly does not require:
comparing string_t with a const char* literal, c_str(), and
constructibility from std::string. This made both functions fail to
compile for a conforming custom StringType, even though the
documentation's own reference StringType satisfies the requirements.

Fix contains() to compare individual chars ('0'..'9') instead of
comparing string_t with const char* literals, and to call data()
(documented to be null-terminated) instead of c_str(). Fix
operator/=(std::size_t) to build the array-index token via the
existing detail::to_string<StringType> helper (ADL int_to_string() or
assignment from std::to_string()) instead of via std::to_string()
directly, matching how diff(), items(), and std::hash already convert
a std::size_t to a StringType.

Add regression tests to tests/src/unit-alt-string.cpp: contains() for
present/missing keys and indices, "-", a leading zero, and a
non-numeric token on an array, plus json_pointer::operator/(std::size_t).

Fixes #5666.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-30 20:13:31 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 6fc0d501f3 Move the user-defined string literals to <nlohmann/json_literals.hpp> and add JSON_NO_AUTOMATIC_UDLS (#5610)
* Add JSON_NO_UDLS to leave out the user-defined string literals

The bodies of operator""_json and operator""_json_pointer call the
parser, so every translation unit including the library instantiates it,
even if it never parses anything. Defining JSON_NO_UDLS leaves the
literals out entirely, which saves 15-35% compile time for such
translation units (#5294). Nothing changes if the macro is not defined.

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

* Mention JSON_NO_UDLS in the list of exported module symbols

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

* Move the user-defined string literals to <nlohmann/json_literals.hpp>

Following the review in #5294, the literals now live in their own header
instead of being removed entirely: <nlohmann/json.hpp> includes it at the
end unless JSON_NO_AUTOMATIC_UDLS (renamed from JSON_NO_UDLS) is defined,
so a project can opt out globally and include the header only where the
literals are used.

The header only uses public and standard macros, because the library's
internal macros are undefined at the end of json.hpp and the amalgamation
inlines macro_scope.hpp only once. For the same reason, the library no
longer defines and undefines JSON_USE_GLOBAL_UDLS, so a user's definition
is still visible to the header. The single-header copy is identical to
the multi-header one, as it only includes <nlohmann/json.hpp>. The module
always exports the literals.

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

* Fix CI: include cycle, GCC 4.8 literal operator spacing, and global UDLs off in the JSON_NO_AUTOMATIC_UDLS test

- Suppress clang-tidy misc-header-include-cycle on the intentional mutual
  include of json.hpp and json_literals.hpp.
- Use operator"" _json with a space for GCC 4.8 in the test's detection
  aliases, as the header does.
- Only test the global literal operators when JSON_USE_GLOBAL_UDLS is on.

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

* Declare the literal operators through a local macro

The GCC 4.8 spacing condition was repeated for both operator definitions
and the global using-declarations. NLOHMANN_JSON_LITERAL_OPERATOR(suffix)
now selects operator""##suffix or operator"" suffix in one place and is
undefined at the end of json_literals.hpp.

Suggested by gregmarr in review.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-30 20:08:17 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 66877675b1 Check the iterator range for binary values in basic_json(first, last) (#5719)
basic_json(first, last) treated value_t::binary like the structured
types (array, object) in the range check, so it always copied the
whole binary value regardless of the iterators, even for an empty
range such as (b.end(), b.end()). The other primitive types (number,
boolean, string) already reject such a range with
invalid_iterator.204, and erase(first, last) already does the same
for binary values, so this made the constructor inconsistent with
both. Move case value_t::binary into the group of checked primitive
types.

Also update the two matching passages in basic_json.md that describe
overload 7, and add a version-history note.

Fixes #5670.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-30 20:07:52 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 7fd6895788 Hide a discarded container's content from the parser callback (#5706)
When a parser callback rejects an object's or array's start event,
json_sax_dom_callback_parser kept calling it for everything inside
that container anyway: nested keys, values, and the start/end events
of containers below it. This contradicts parser_callback_t's own
documentation, which promises that discarding a container at its
start event also hides its content from the callback.

The same code path also kept a full copy of every key inside such a
discarded container in key_stack until the whole parse finished,
because the early return for values that are not stored skipped the
matching pop. Filtering out a large subtree is the main reason to use
a callback, so this made peak memory during the parse scale with the
size of the very subtree the callback was trying to skip.

Fix start_object(), start_array(), and key() so that a container
whose own start event was discarded, or that is nested inside one, is
never handed to the callback, and no longer pushes onto the key
stacks. A container whose start event was accepted but whose key was
rejected still gets its content reported, as documented ("the
callback is still called for the associated value, but its return
value has no further effect"); only its own bookkeeping is skipped
since it will not be stored.

Fixes #5643.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-30 20:07:48 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 6ae17630a4 Reject integral keys for contains(), find(), and count() at compile time (#5705)
j.contains(0), j.find(0), and j.count(0) used to compile: the literal 0 is
a null pointer constant, so it converts to a null const char*, and the
overloads taking const typename object_t::key_type& accepted it by
constructing a std::string from that null pointer, which is undefined
behavior (a crash with both libc++ and libstdc++). value(0, default_value)
had the same problem in C++11, where the object comparator is not
transparent.

Add deleted overloads for integral arguments to contains(), find()
(const and non-const), count(), and value() so that these calls are
compile errors in every supported language mode instead of crashing.
Calls with string, string_view, json_pointer, and size-typed element
access (at(), operator[](), erase()) are unaffected.

Fixes #5657.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-30 20:07:45 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 5bd766aa50 Move to_bson's binary subtype check into calc_bson_sizes (#5703)
to_bson() rejected a binary value's subtype above 255 (out_of_range.415)
in write_bson_binary(), which only has the binary_t, not the basic_json
value that holds it, so the exception was created with no JSON_DIAGNOSTICS
context even though the equivalent to_msgpack() check names the value's
path. The check also ran after the document size, all preceding elements,
and this element's header and length had already reached the output
adapter, so a caller-provided std::vector or std::string ended up holding
a truncated document.

calc_bson_sizes() already walks every value before anything is written,
to size embedded documents and arrays and to reject invalid keys
(out_of_range.409) up front. The subtype check now runs there instead,
in calc_bson_binary_size(), which is given the basic_json value so the
exception can use it as context. The now-redundant check in
write_bson_binary() is removed, since calc_bson_sizes() always throws
first if any binary value in the document has an oversized subtype.

Fixes #5675.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-30 20:07:41 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 4bb1b14b06 Trim the compiler-appended NUL from wide/UTF string literals too (#5702)
With JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING defined to 1, parsing a wide, UTF-16,
UTF-32, or (C++20) UTF-8 string literal (e.g. json::parse(L"[1]"))
failed with parse_error.101 at the terminating NUL of the literal,
and accept() returned false. The array overload of input_adapter()
only dropped the compiler-added trailing '\0' for arrays of char,
so for wchar_t, char16_t, char32_t, and char8_t arrays that
terminator was passed to the parser as data, which the macro then
rejected.

Broaden the trimming to every character type that a string literal
can use (char, wchar_t, char16_t, char32_t, and, since C++20,
char8_t). Arrays of any other element type (unsigned char,
std::uint8_t, ...), as used for CBOR/MessagePack, are unaffected: a
trailing zero byte there is still read as genuine data.

Fixes #5658.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-30 20:07:37 +02:00
Niels LohmannandClaude Sonnet 5 bfe0f32d71 Fix std::terminate and null pointer access in input_stream_adapter (#5699)
Parsing from a std::istream crashed in two unusual but valid stream
states, both in input_stream_adapter:

- With eofbit in the stream's exceptions() mask, get_character() sets
  eofbit via is->clear(), which throws std::ios_base::failure. While
  that exception unwinds, ~input_stream_adapter() called clear() again
  to reset eofbit, which is still set and still in the exception mask,
  so it throws a second time out of the (implicitly noexcept)
  destructor and std::terminate() is called. The destructor now only
  calls clear() if a bit other than eofbit remains set, so the first
  exception can propagate normally.
- For an std::istream without a stream buffer (rdbuf() == nullptr,
  e.g. std::istream(nullptr)), the constructor stored the null
  pointer without checking it, and get_character() dereferenced it.
  input_adapter(std::istream&) now throws parse_error.101 for such a
  stream, the same as it already does for a null FILE* or char*.

Added regression tests to unit-deserialization.cpp and, for the
JSON_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION variant of get_character(), to
unit-precise-stream-position.cpp; both crashed before this fix.
Documented the two exceptions in parse.md and operator_gtgt.md.

Fixes #5646.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 20:07:33 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 5b11a0282c Exchange the CustomBaseClass subobject in basic_json::swap() (#5697)
basic_json::swap() (and the friend swap() and the pre-C++20 std::swap
overload that forward to it) only exchanged m_data.m_type/m_data.m_value,
leaving each value's json_base_class_t subobject in place. This is
inconsistent with the copy and move constructors and copy assignment,
which all carry the base class along with the value, so after
a.swap(b) any metadata stored in a CustomBaseClass ended up attached to
the wrong value. Algorithms that mix swap() with moves, such as
std::sort, scrambled the metadata across the whole container.

Fix the member swap() to also exchange the json_base_class_t subobject
and extend the noexcept specifications of swap() and the friend swap()
accordingly.

Fixes #5653.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-30 20:07:24 +02:00
Niels Lohmann bfea6f36d3 Fix to_msgpack() reading the inactive number union member (#5694)
* Fix to_msgpack() reading the inactive number union member

basic_json stores number_integer and number_unsigned in a union, and
number_unsigned_t only has to be at least as wide as number_integer_t
(with the default types, both are 64-bit and have the same
representation). When number_integer_t is narrower, write_msgpack()
read the wrong union member in two places:

- The number_unsigned case wrote number_integer's bits instead of
  number_unsigned's, silently writing the wrong value whenever it
  did not fit in number_integer_t.
- The number_integer case (non-negative branch) picked the encoded
  width by comparing number_unsigned's bits, which is undefined
  behavior, though the value written was still number_integer's, so
  at worst a too-wide encoding was chosen.

Read the active member in both cases, like the other binary writers
(CBOR, UBJSON, BJData, BSON, BON8) already do.

Fixes #5644.

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

* Cast number_integer to number_unsigned_t only once in to_msgpack()

Addresses review comment by @gregmarr.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-30 20:07:19 +02:00
Niels Lohmann e444a66276 Copy values before inserting an initializer list into an array (#5693)
* Copy values before inserting an initializer list into an array

insert(pos, {...}) inserted wrong values when the initializer list
contained const references to elements of the array being inserted
into. json_ref stores only a pointer for a const lvalue, so the
initializer_list_t range passed straight to the array's range insert
aliased the array's own storage; std::vector::insert(pos, first, last)
may move or shift elements before copying from that range, so the
source elements were already stale by the time they were read
(different wrong results on libc++ and libstdc++).

Copy the referenced values into a temporary array_t first, then move
that temporary into place, so the source range never aliases the
array being modified.

Fixes #5656.

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

* Use the reserve_array helper in the initializer_list insert fix

The previous commit called array_t::reserve() directly on the
temporary buffer used to copy an ilist's values before inserting.
std::deque, a documented ArrayType (tests/src/unit-custom-array-type.cpp),
has no reserve(), so insert(pos, initializer_list) no longer compiled
for it. Use the existing detail::reserve_array() SFINAE helper (already
used by the SAX DOM parser) instead, which leaves array types without
reserve() untouched.

Added a regression check that deque_json::insert(pos, {...}) compiles
and handles the aliasing case from #5656.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-30 20:07:16 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 6218aa212b Throw std::length_error for operator[](SIZE_MAX) instead of corrupting the array (#5687)
For idx == SIZE_MAX, the non-const array operator[] computed the new size as
idx + 1, which wraps to 0. resize(0) then emptied the array, and the
subsequent operator[](idx) on the now-empty vector wrote one element before
its buffer. Every other too-large index (e.g. SIZE_MAX - 1) already went
through resize(), which throws std::length_error and leaves the array
unchanged; SIZE_MAX was the one value for which the overflow bypassed that
safety net.

Add a guard that throws std::length_error before computing idx + 1 when idx
is the largest representable size_type value, so the array is left
unchanged, matching the exception vector::resize() already throws for
smaller (but still too large) indices.

Fixes #5647.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-30 20:07:06 +02:00
Niels Lohmann fc4c9c3446 Fix clear() to also reset the subtype of a binary value (#5680)
* Fix clear() to also reset the subtype of a binary value

clear() on a binary value cleared the bytes but left the subtype
untouched, so the result was not equal to a default-constructed
binary value even though the documentation says clear() has the same
effect as *this = basic_json(type()). The fix calls
byte_container_with_subtype::clear_subtype() alongside the existing
clear() call.

Extended the "filled binary" clear() test in unit-modifiers.cpp with
a case that uses a subtype, since the existing cases only covered
binary values without one.

Fixes #5669.

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

* Fix the table alignment in clear.md

Addresses review comment by @gregmarr.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-30 20:06:51 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 65af260117 Move instead of deep-copy ordered_json values when an object grows (#5609)
* Move instead of deep-copy ordered_json values when an object grows

ordered_map keeps its elements in a std::vector<std::pair<const Key, T>>.
With a std::string key, that pair is not nothrow move constructible (the
const key has to be copied), so std::vector copies every element when it
reallocates. For ordered_json, this deep-copies every member value an
object already holds, including whole nested subtrees, on each growth
step.

Grow the storage in ordered_map instead, copying the keys and moving the
values. This happens in two phases, so the strong exception guarantee is
kept without try/catch. The first phase may throw, but only touches a
temporary buffer: it copies the keys, value-initializes the values, and
constructs the new element. The second phase moves the values (noexcept)
and swaps the buffers. Because the new element is constructed before any
value is moved, arguments that refer to elements of the container stay
valid, as with std::vector. Types that cannot take this path keep the
std::vector behavior.

Parsing into ordered_json (ParseStringOrdered, Apple M1 Max, clang -O3):
twitter 3.20 -> 1.70 ms, citm_catalog 7.73 -> 3.67 ms, jeopardy 219 ->
177 ms, canada unchanged. The number of allocations for twitter and
citm_catalog drops by two thirds.

Also add ParseStringOrdered rows to the benchmarks, and document the
growth behavior and the exception safety of ordered_map.

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

* Fix CI: skip std::pair noexcept assumptions on EDG-based compilers

ci_icpc and ci_nvhpc failed to compile unit-ordered_map.cpp: the static
assertion that std::pair<const std::string, ordered_json> is not nothrow
move-constructible fails there. The EDG front end (Intel icpc 2021.10,
NVIDIA nvc++ 25.5) considers the defaulted move constructor of
std::pair<const Key, T> noexcept even if copying Key can throw. With these
compilers, std::vector already moves such elements itself when it grows,
and ordered_map correctly leaves growing to it.

The same misjudgement makes std::vector call std::terminate when a key copy
throws during growth, so the exception-safety test with throwing_key would
abort on these compilers as well.

Skip the static assertion and the exception-safety section when __EDG__ is
defined. Verified with icpc 2021.10 (-std=gnu++11) and nvc++ 25.5 (C++11 and
C++17) on Compiler Explorer: unit-ordered_map and unit-disabled_exceptions
build and pass.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-30 20:06:34 +02:00
Niels Lohmann d268eaa693 Convert floats with Eisel-Lemire when std::from_chars is unavailable (#5617)
* Convert floats with Eisel-Lemire when std::from_chars is unavailable

Float tokens that Clinger's fast path cannot convert (e.g. the 17-digit
coordinates of canada.json) went to strtod unless std::from_chars was
available. It is not used in C++11/14, and not with libc++, which does not
define __cpp_lib_to_chars. The Eisel-Lemire algorithm (after fast_float's
compute_float) now converts them with integer arithmetic, correctly rounded
for any token with at most 19 significant digits. Longer tokens are
truncated; the result is used if w and w + 1 round alike, else strtod
decides as before. Overflow still yields infinity (out_of_range.406).

The table of powers of five (fast_float's) lives in pow5_table.hpp; a unit
test recomputes every entry with big-integer arithmetic. Further tests:
known values generated with Python (whose float() is correctly rounded),
200,000 round trips through to_chars, and the 128-bit multiplication and
leading-zero count against big-integer references (both with and without a
128-bit type). Checked against strtod on 6.5 million tokens, among them
60,000 exact halfway cases: no difference.

json::parse on canada.json: -8.6% (C++11), -7.6% (C++17, Apple clang);
other files unchanged. Compile time of a TU including json.hpp: +0.7%.

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

* Fix CI: unused parse result and find() == npos in the Eisel-Lemire tests

GCC (-Werror=unused-result) rejected CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(json::parse(...))
because parse() is [[nodiscard]]; assign the result to a dummy json as the
other tests do. clang-tidy flagged longer.find('.') == npos with
abseil-string-find-str-contains; store the position in a variable first.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-30 20:06:26 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 9e1a09eec0 Name the key type when rejecting non-string CBOR/MessagePack map keys (#5594)
* Name the key type when rejecting non-string CBOR/MessagePack map keys

CBOR and MessagePack allow map keys of any type, but JSON object keys
are always strings, so such maps are rejected. The error so far was the
one for a malformed string (e.g. "expected length specification
(0xA0-0xBF, 0xD9-0xDB); last byte: 0xC0" for a nil key), which does not
tell the user what went wrong. Report the type of the key instead:

  syntax error while parsing MessagePack object key: only string keys
  are supported, but found nil; last byte: 0xC0

The exception id (parse_error.113) and type are unchanged. Malformed
string keys and a missing key keep their previous messages. Document
the restriction on the CBOR and MessagePack pages.

Refs #2766, #3381

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

* Point the MessagePack key note to the spec's profile section

The note linked to "Serialization: type to format conversion", which says nothing about key types. Restricting map keys to strings is only mentioned in the "Profile" section (under "Future discussion") as an example of a JSON-compatible profile, so link there and describe it as such instead of as a permission.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-28 17:51:07 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 56ddcb65f0 Fix documentation style check: wrap long line in cbor_tag_handler_t.md (#5603)
The line added in #5559 exceeded the 160-character limit enforced by
docs/mkdocs/scripts/check_structure.py, breaking the documentation build.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-27 20:40:13 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 1e101ecac1 Add BON8 support (#2998)
* Add BON8 support

Add to_bon8/from_bon8 and input_format_t::bon8 for BON8, a binary format
that uses the byte values that cannot begin a UTF-8 character as type
markers, so strings need no length prefix. It is the most compact of the
supported binary formats on the benchmark files.

The reader is non-recursive like the other binary readers. A string ends
at the first byte that cannot continue it, so the reader hands the one or
two bytes it reads past a string back to the value that follows. The
writer produces the canonical representation of the specification, except
for NFC normalization; its output is identical to that of the reference
implementation (HikoGUI) on all files of the test data.

The round-trip tests need the .bon8 files of json_test_data 3.2.0.

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

* Address review comments

- Reuse detail::validate_one_utf8 to check strings in to_bon8; the error
  now names the first byte of the invalid sequence.
- Document that to_bon8 leaves bytes in the output adapter on an
  exception, and that string_open is only an output of write_bon8_marker.
- Explain why the pushback buffer of the BON8 reader cannot overflow.

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

* Select the BON8 float prefix by type

get_bon8_float_prefix only depends on the type of its argument, so make
the type a template parameter instead of passing an unused value.

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

* Rename a test variable that Flawfinder mistakes for read()

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

* Fix the BON8 CI failures

- compare the float in write_bon8_float with number_float_t constants,
  so GCC does not warn about a float-to-double conversion
- mark check_bon8_utf8's context as used when exceptions are disabled
- choose the compact float prefix in a helper rather than with nested
  conditional operators (clang-tidy)
- use auto for the cast in the BON8 integer reader (clang-tidy)
- write the int32 minimum test values as long long literals (MSVC C4146)

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

* Amalgamate

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

* Read BON8 strings in bulk from contiguous input

- copy the valid UTF-8 of a string in one step when the input is
  contiguous (twitter.json is read in 1.68 instead of 2.52 ms,
  jeopardy.json in 196 instead of 297 ms, close to CBOR and MessagePack)
- share the new valid_utf8_prefix() with the writer's UTF-8 check, which
  now skips ASCII 8 bytes at a time
- let the fuzzer check that contiguous and stream input give the same
  value or error, and test both paths in the unit tests
- clarify that a second 0xFF after a string is an empty string

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

* Link the BON8 functions from the other binary format pages

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

* Name the bulk scan flag after the input, not BON8

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

* Read BSON keys in bulk from contiguous input

BSON keys (and array indices) are C-style strings, which were read byte
by byte. For contiguous input they are now read up to their \x00-byte in
one step, using the same bulk_scan flag as BON8 strings: twitter.json is
read in 1.46 instead of 2.01 ms, citm_catalog.json in 2.93 instead of
3.33 ms, jeopardy.json in 182 instead of 207 ms. canada.json, whose keys
are almost all one-digit array indices, takes 2 % longer.

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

* Fix the BON8 CI failures of the bulk-read tests

- skip the contiguous-versus-stream tests of BON8 strings and BSON keys
  when exceptions are disabled: they catch the parse errors of invalid
  input, and without exceptions the library aborts instead
- use static_cast for the int64 test value (google-readability-casting)

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

* Move the explicit basic_json instantiation into its own test file

Linking test-regression3_cpp20 with clang and MinGW failed with
"relocation truncated to fit: IMAGE_REL_AMD64_REL32 against `.rdata'",
as test-regression2 did before #5511. The explicit instantiation of
basic_json<> for #4825 compiles every member function, including the
BON8 reader and writer, into that object, and it was already close to
the limit (2,226,104 bytes on develop, 2,234,960 with BON8; clang -O1,
C++20).

Give the instantiation a file of its own: unit-regression3 is now
1,594,736 bytes and unit-explicit_instantiation 1,095,064. The new file
mentions JSON_HAS_CPP_17 and JSON_HAS_CPP_20 so it keeps being built
for the C++17 standard the regression was about.

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

* Convert the bytes of the BON8 test strings explicitly

The str() helper constructed a std::string from a byte range, which
converts each unsigned char implicitly; -fsanitize=integer reports that
for bytes of 0x80 and above (ci_test_clang_sanitizer).

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-27 16:56:21 +02:00
Kartikey Negi 6bd106893a Fix CBOR tag handling in cbor_tag_handler_t::store for non-binary items (#5559)
When using cbor_tag_handler_t::store, tags 0xD8-0xDB previously assumed
that the tagged item was a byte string, unconditionally attempting to
parse binary data and failing on valid CBOR documents containing tags
applied to integers, strings, arrays, or objects (such as self-describe
tag 55799).

Check whether the tagged data item is a byte string (0x40-0x5B or 0x5F).
If it is a byte string, store the subtype on the binary value as before.
Otherwise, iteratively process the tagged value in the driver loop using
item_read so that chained tags do not consume native stack space.

Part of #5316.

Signed-off-by: ReturnKartikey <kartikeynegi2000.work@gmail.com>
2026-09-27 14:28:55 +02:00
Niels Lohmann f7972970a4 Throw instead of writing MessagePack lengths beyond UINT32_MAX (#5584)
* Throw instead of writing MessagePack lengths beyond UINT32_MAX

MessagePack stores the length of a string, binary value, array, or
object in at most 32 bits. For a larger value, to_msgpack wrote no length
at all, so the output could not be read back. It now throws
out_of_range.412, which BSON already uses for its 32-bit length fields.

The check lives in one function, so each length is written by an
if/else chain that ends in a plain else, without a condition that can
never be false. It is tested with string and binary types that report a
size beyond UINT32_MAX without allocating it, like the BSON tests do.

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

* Fix the CI failures of the MessagePack length check

- mark to_msgpack_length's value as used when exceptions are disabled
  (-Wunused-parameter, misc-unused-parameters)
- put "Exception safety" before "Exceptions" in to_msgpack.md, as the
  documentation style check requires
- create the test's string value from its type: constructing it from a
  beyond_uint32_string_t considers the std::filesystem::path conversion,
  which libstdc++ 10 reports as ambiguous for a class derived from
  std::string (clang 13)

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

* Skip the MessagePack string length test for clang with libstdc++ 10

C++17 builds consider the std::filesystem::path conversion for the
string type, and with clang and libstdc++ 10 that conversion is
ambiguous for a class derived from std::string. Creating the value from
its type did not avoid it, since any basic_json with that string type
instantiates the check. The binary and ext cases are still tested there.

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

* Keep the MessagePack string test type and its alias in one block

astyle indented the alias oddly when it had an #ifdef of its own after
the binary alias; declare it right after the string type, in the same
block.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-27 14:28:16 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 95e9a5931c Write BSON in linear time, without recursing per nesting level (#5553)
* Write BSON in linear time, without recursing per nesting level

to_bson() had two problems with nested values:

- It recursed once per nesting level, so a value nested deeply enough -
  100,000 levels on an 8 MiB stack - exhausted the call stack and
  terminated the process, although parse() accepts such values without
  complaint.
- BSON prefixes every document and array with its length. The writer
  computed that length by walking the entire value below it, again for
  every nested document it wrote, which made serializing O(size x depth).
  A 200-level document took 30 ms instead of 1.

Both passes are now iterative, and each length is computed exactly once:

- calc_bson_sizes() computes the length of every document and array in
  one pass, each from the lengths of its entries, into a table ordered
  the way they are written.
- write_bson_document() then writes the document, taking each length from
  the table.

Everything observable is unchanged, as a differential test against
develop confirms byte for byte:

- The same bytes are written.
- A key containing U+0000 still throws out_of_range.409 for the same
  first key, with the same diagnostics path, before anything is written.
- A document too large for BSON still throws out_of_range.412 before
  anything is written.
- A binary subtype above 255 still throws out_of_range.415 after the
  same partial output.

Only the enclosing objects and arrays are kept on a stack, so a flat
document allocates nothing for it. Measured against develop (clang -O3,
median of 201 runs): flat objects unchanged, flat arrays 37% faster (the
array length was computed twice), a nested 3,000-object document 2x
faster, a 200-level document 33x faster.

to_bson.md documented the quadratic complexity since #5334; it is linear
again.

Fixes #5392 for BSON, and #5308.

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

* Do not require a default-constructible string_t in the BSON writer

GCC 4.9 and MSVC rejected the test's huge_string_t, which has no default
constructor; develop never default-constructed string_t here either.

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

* Let the BSON index-name helper only fill its output parameter

It returned a reference to the string it filled, so callers held a second
name for index_name. Addresses review feedback.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-25 21:56:39 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 1e44262091 Make JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING part of the ABI tag (#5560)
* Make JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING part of the ABI tag

JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING (#5534) changes the bodies of inline functions:
the lexer's handling of '\0' and input_adapter() for char arrays. So
translation units compiled with and without it define the same functions
differently, an ODR violation - the case the ABI tag exists for, as with
JSON_BRACE_INIT_COPY_SEMANTICS (_bics). It now appends _snul to the inline
namespace. The macro is new in 3.13.0, so no existing namespace changes.

Its default moves to abi_macros.hpp, and it is only #undef'd without
JSON_TEST_KEEP_MACROS, as for the other ABI macros. The ABI config tests,
the namespace docs, the macro's docs and the Natvis file cover the new tag.

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

* Amalgamate

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-25 21:54:11 +02:00
Niels Lohmann c60a0bc336 Allocate the deep copy's key scratch space with the provided allocator (#5573)
* Allocate the deep copy's key scratch space with the provided allocator

The iterative deep copy builds each object's keys in a temporary vector of
key/value pairs before handing them to the object's range constructor. That
vector holds basic_json values, so like the values themselves it now uses
AllocatorType instead of std::allocator.

Also document that AllocatorType covers the JSON values, while most
temporary storage still uses std::allocator.

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

* Count allocate_at_least in the scratch-counting test allocator

From C++23 on, libc++'s containers allocate through allocate_at_least when
the allocator has one. The test allocator inherited it from std::allocator,
so the scratch allocations were not counted and the test failed on Xcode.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-25 21:53:49 +02:00
Niels LohmannandClaude Sonnet 5 d19f7f5dce Fix BSON conformance issue (#5185)
* 🐛 fix BSON conformance issue

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

* 🐛 fix BSON conformance issue

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

* 🐛 reject ill-formed UTF-8 in CBOR/MessagePack/BSON text strings at decode time (#5531)

from_cbor()/from_msgpack()/from_bson() copied the raw bytes of a decoded
text string into the resulting json value without any UTF-8 validation,
even though RFC 8949 §3.1 (CBOR) and the MessagePack/BSON specifications
all require text strings to be valid UTF-8. Malformed input only failed
later, if the value was dump()'d, with a type_error.316 - so the
allow_exceptions=false pattern used specifically to get a discarded
sentinel instead of an exception did not discard this category of
malformed input, unlike every other kind of malformed binary input this
library rejects at decode time (see #5529).

Fix this at the single choke point shared by BSON/CBOR/MessagePack/UBJSON
string reads, binary_reader::get_string(): validate the bytes with the
UTF-8 DFA right after they are read, and report failures the same way as
every other binary_reader error (parse_error.113), so allow_exceptions
and strict discarding behave consistently. get_binary()/binary blob reads
are untouched and still accept arbitrary bytes, since only text strings
are required to be UTF-8.

There were two independent implementations of a UTF-8 validator: the
lexer's streaming scanner, and the serializer's Hoehrmann DFA used by
dump_escaped_impl(). Rather than write a third, the serializer's decode()
function, its utf8d table and the UTF8_ACCEPT/UTF8_REJECT constants are
extracted into detail/string_utils.hpp (a low-level header already
included before both detail/input/ and detail/output/), alongside a new
is_valid_utf8() helper built on the same decode() step. serializer.hpp's
dump_escaped_impl() now calls the shared decode(), so there is exactly
one UTF-8 validator in the codebase; dump()'s exact type_error.316
messages and byte-index reporting are unchanged (see the added
regression-guard test in unit-serialization.cpp).

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N4RQ1Ahan5YAGbnAQGjZTY

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ⚡ validate only newly read bytes of binary-format strings

get_string() validated the whole result after each call, but get_bytes()
appends to it and CBOR indefinite-length strings collect all chunks in
the same result, so every chunk re-validated everything read before it.
An input of many small chunks took quadratic time (80000 one-byte chunks,
160 KB of input, took about 7 seconds). Only the newly read bytes are
validated now, which also matches RFC 8949's requirement that every
chunk is valid UTF-8 on its own.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-25 20:45:28 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 632a5812a8 Support zero-member types in NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_* macros (#4041) (#5272)
* Support zero-member types in NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_* macros (#4041)

NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE(Type) and its 11 sibling macros produced
broken code for types with no members to serialize. Invoking a variadic
macro so __VA_ARGS__ is empty is only standard-conforming since C++20,
so a plain __VA_OPT__ fix (as tried in #5142) breaks every pre-C++20
build under -pedantic. Instead, make all 12 macros purely variadic and
dispatch on argument count using a sentinel-padded extension of the
existing NLOHMANN_JSON_GET_MACRO idiom, giving full C++11-C++26 support
with no feature-test gate.

Verified against real GCC 16 and Clang at -std=c++11/14/17/20 with
-pedantic -Werror -Wvariadic-macros: zero regressions in the existing
unit-udt_macro.cpp suite plus 12 new zero-member test cases.

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

* Fix CI failures in zero-member NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_* macros

Three issues surfaced on PR #5272's real CI that weren't caught by
local testing against a narrower flag set:

- GCC -Werror=noexcept: the four truly-empty from_json bodies (plain
  INTRUSIVE/NON_INTRUSIVE, with and without _WITH_DEFAULT) provably
  never throw but weren't declared noexcept; mark them noexcept
  explicitly. to_json and the derived-type from_json overloads are
  left alone since they genuinely can throw (object assignment /
  delegating to the base class's from_json).
- clang-tidy bugprone-macro-parentheses: false positive on the same
  8 zero-member bodies (Type/BaseType used purely as declarator
  types); suppressed with NOLINTNEXTLINE comments in the same style
  already used elsewhere in this file (see NLOHMANN_JSON_SERIALIZE_ENUM).
- MSVC's traditional preprocessor doesn't fully expand
  NLOHMANN_JSON_CAT(prefix, NLOHMANN_JSON_TYPE_TAG(...))(...) in one
  pass, which broke a pre-existing one-member usage in
  unit-regression2.cpp with syntax errors. Wrap all 12 public
  dispatcher macros in an extra outer NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(...),
  matching the pattern NLOHMANN_JSON_PASTE already uses for the same
  MSVC quirk.

Re-verified against real GCC 16 and Clang at -std=c++11/14/17/20 with
-pedantic -Werror -Wvariadic-macros -Wnoexcept, including the exact
files that failed in CI (unit-udt_macro.cpp, unit-regression2.cpp),
against both the modular headers and the re-amalgamated single header.

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

* Fix clang-tidy misc-const-correctness in unit-udt_macro.cpp

The four zero-member ONLY_SERIALIZE test objects are only ever read
(via to_json), never mutated, so mark them const per clang-tidy.

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

* Fix derived-type macro dispatch capping members at 62 instead of 63

NLOHMANN_JSON_GET_MACRO resolves 64 positional arguments, with NAME at
position 65. NLOHMANN_JSON_TYPE_TAG dispatches on Type plus the member
list, so it resolves correctly up to the 63 members NLOHMANN_JSON_PASTE
supports. NLOHMANN_JSON_DERIVED_TYPE_TAG dispatched on the two-token
Type,BaseType prefix plus the member list, running out one slot early:
at 63 members, position 65 landed on the last member name instead of a
sentinel and NLOHMANN_JSON_CAT built an undefined identifier such as
NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_m63, with the compiler
reporting "unknown type name 'm1'" once per member and nothing pointing
at an argument-count limit.

That silently reduced all six NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_* macros from
63 members to 62, contradicting the "up to 63 members" contract in
docs/mkdocs/docs/api/macros/nlohmann_define_derived_type.md.

Drop the leading Type and defer to NLOHMANN_JSON_TYPE_TAG so the tag is
computed from BaseType plus the member list, which fits the available
slots. The zero-own-member derived bodies are therefore selected by tag
1 rather than 2, and the sentinel table for the derived tag is no longer
needed.

Add a regression test at the documented maximum for both the plain and
the derived macros; it fails to compile against the previous dispatch.

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

* Name the zero-member macro bodies by intent, not argument count

The dispatch tag was the literal token 1 or N, pasted onto a macro prefix
to select the zero-member or member-carrying body. For the derived-type
macros that reads wrong: their tag is computed after dropping the leading
Type, so the zero-member body was named _1 while taking two parameters
(Type, BaseType).

Emit EMPTY and MEMBERS instead. The mechanism is unchanged -- the tag is
still a token pasted onto the prefix by NLOHMANN_JSON_CAT -- but the body
names now say what they are rather than encoding an argument count that
only lines up for half of the macros.

Collapse the four duplicated zero-member bodies while here: with no
members there is nothing to default, so each _WITH_DEFAULT_EMPTY body was
a byte-for-byte copy of its plain counterpart. They are now one-line
aliases, leaving a single definition of what an empty object serializes
to per intrusive/non-intrusive and base/derived combination.

No functional change: for both zero-member and member-carrying types the
preprocessed to_json/from_json output is token-for-token identical, and
the arity limits are unchanged (63 members, base and derived).

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

* Document zero-member support in the macro API reference

docs/mkdocs/docs/features/arbitrary_types.md already gained a note, but
the three api/macros pages are where the parameter contract is actually
specified and they still described member as a non-empty list.

State that the list may be empty on each page, and add a note showing
what the zero-member case generates: an empty JSON object for the plain
macros, and base-type-only serialization for the derived ones. Both notes
record that the WITH_NAMES variants do not support this.

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

* Keep user macros named EMPTY or MEMBERS out of the member-count dispatch

The dispatch produced the bare token EMPTY or MEMBERS and pasted it onto
the macro prefix afterwards. In between, the token was rescanned, so a
user macro with either name replaced it: with `#define MEMBERS x` in
scope, even NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE(A, member) -- which compiled
before -- expanded to garbage, and `#define EMPTY` broke the zero-member
form.

Paste the suffix onto the prefix directly in the GET_MACRO slot table
instead. Operands of ## are not macro-expanded, so the selected body name
is formed before any user macro can interfere. NLOHMANN_JSON_TYPE_TAG and
NLOHMANN_JSON_DERIVED_TYPE_TAG become NLOHMANN_JSON_TYPE_BODY and
NLOHMANN_JSON_DERIVED_TYPE_BODY, taking the prefix as their first
argument; NLOHMANN_JSON_CAT is no longer needed. The body macro names are
unchanged, and so is the generated code.

Add a regression test that defines EMPTY and MEMBERS around plain and
derived types, with and without members.

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

* Test for EMPTY and MEMBERS so -Wunused-macros accepts them

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-25 20:44:30 +02:00
Niels Lohmann ad2c14b985 Document response times, supported versions, access, secrets, and dependency policies (#5580)
Answer the OpenSSF Best Practices criteria that asked for policies the
project follows but had not written down:

- SECURITY.md: a first response within 14 days, publishing an advisory
  with credit once a fix is released, and that only the latest release
  receives security fixes.
- Governance: who has access to the project's resources, how write or
  admin access is granted, and how CI secrets are stored and rotated.
- Quality assurance: how dependencies of the build, test, and
  documentation tooling are pinned, scanned, and kept free of known
  vulnerabilities.

Also update the assurance case, since comparison no longer recurses per
nesting level (#5390), and point the best practices badge and links to
bestpractices.dev under the program's current name.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-25 20:34:58 +02:00
Alexander LaninandNiels Lohmann 465407f3ce Improve error message for const fields (#2818)
* Improve error message for const fields

* Reject const arguments to get_to() with a clear message

Reword the static_assert, add it to the C array overload of get_to() as well,
and document that v must not be const.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Co-authored-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-25 18:02:38 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 02dd3e67f2 Fix stack overflow and exponential runtime when comparing nested values (#5390)
* Compare values without recursing, and without comparing them twice

Comparing two values compared their containers, which compare their elements,
which brought the comparison back once per nesting level. Two values nested
deeply enough exhausted the call stack and terminated the process with a
segmentation fault - the same bug as #5387, in the last operation that still
had it.

Worse, an ordered comparison took exponentially long in the nesting depth
before C++20. std::vector's operator< is a lexicographical comparison, which
asks whether an element is less than its counterpart and then whether the
counterpart is less than it - two full comparisons of everything below that
element, at every level. Comparing two equal values nested 30 levels deep,
which is nothing unusual, took 3.8 seconds; 40 levels would have taken an
hour, and nothing about the value has to be pathological to get there. C++20
is unaffected: std::lexicographical_compare_three_way asks once.

Compare a value that is nested too deeply to descend into on an explicit
stack instead, in a single pass that yields less, equal, greater or unordered
at once. Equality and the three-way comparison descend as they always did for
the first 128 levels, which nothing measurable costs them; an ordered
comparison no longer descends at all, which is what takes the exponent out of
it. Objects and arrays that are not nested deeply are otherwise compared
exactly as before.

The results are unchanged for every pair of values: 68121 comparisons of a
corpus that covers NaN, discarded values, mixed number types, binary values,
empty containers and both object types are identical to develop, in C++11,
C++17 and C++20, with and without thread_local storage and legacy discarded
comparison. Reproducing that meant reproducing two subtleties: a lexicographic
comparison steps over a pair it cannot order, where a three-way comparison
stops at it, and an object compares its keys with < where its entries are
ordered but with == where they are only checked for equality - not with the
object's own comparator, which for nlohmann::ordered_map tells equality.

Equality needs no ordering, so it no longer asks for any: a key or string type
that can only be compared for equality still works.

Measured (medians of 7 interleaved runs, clang -O3, C++11): comparing two
equal values nested 30 levels deep 3778 ms -> 0.002 ms; ordering flat objects
-33.6%; ordering flat arrays of numbers +27.3%, the one shape that pays for
the single pass; equality unchanged throughout.

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

* Describe comparison in the no-thread-local docs and CI target

Comparing two values now bounds its descent with a thread_local counter
just as copying does, so the JSON_NO_THREAD_LOCAL page, the macro
overview and the ci_test_no_thread_local target cover both rather than
copying alone.

Also record what switching the macro on costs a comparison: on the
benchmark documents, comparing two equal values takes 10% to 90% longer.

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

* Take the descent flag as an argument rather than testing it

MSVC reports the test of a constant as C4127 ("conditional expression is
constant"), which the Windows builds treat as an error: may_descend is
false for operator<, so the operand short-circuits the whole condition.

Passing it to compare_descent_exhausted() puts the test where the value
is an ordinary parameter, and leaves the call sites with no condition of
their own.

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

* Note the comparison fallback in the no-thread-local documentation

The macro page describes what the library defines JSON_NO_THREAD_LOCAL for
by itself in terms of copying alone; comparing falls back the same way.

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

* Parenthesise the reserve() computation in the comparison test

clang-tidy reports the mixed * and + as readability-math-missing-
parentheses, as it does for the identical line in the copy test.

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

* Use the shared descent bookkeeping rather than a second set

Comparing kept a thread_local count, a limit and a guard of its own beside
the ones copying already had, all three the same thing under a different
name. They are gone; the shared count, limit and guard do the work.

The guard grows a second constructor here, because the comparison
operators are written as a macro and a macro cannot use the preprocessor:
it cannot look the count up behind an #ifdef the way copy_structured does,
so the guard looks it up for it. nesting_depth_exhausted() arrives for the
same reason - whether an operator descends at all is a constant at every
call site, and testing it there is what MSVC reports as C4127.

Also say in compare_leaves what happens to a pair that is an array on one
side and an object on the other, since the answer is not obvious from the
code: an operator only descends into two values of the same type, so such
a pair is told apart by its types alone - unequal, and ordered the way the
types are - exactly as it is above the bound.

And record what the explicit stack costs: the comparison operators are
noexcept and the container comparison this replaces allocated nothing, so
running out of memory here ends the process instead of throwing. It takes
a value nested past the bound and an exhausted heap to reach, and the same
comparison used to exhaust the call stack, but it is a new way to fail.

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

* Amalgamate

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-25 17:58:59 +02:00
Niels Lohmann abbe52d6de Add JSON_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION to leave the character that terminates a number in the stream (#5344)
* docs: qualify the operator>> stream positioning guarantee

operator>>'s notes state that it leaves the stream positioned right
after the parsed value, so that concatenated JSON values can be read
back to back. That does not hold when the value is a number: a number
is only terminated by the character that follows it, and the lexer's
unget() is simulated (it rewinds only the lexer's own bookkeeping),
so that character stays consumed from the stream.

Document the actual behaviour: the guarantee holds for all value types
except numbers, which must be followed by whitespace. Also qualify the
cross-reference on the JSON Lines page, which repeated the unqualified
claim.

Documentation only; the behaviour itself is tracked in #5340.

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

* fix: restore the character that terminates a number (#5340)

operator>> is documented to leave the stream positioned right after the
parsed value, so that concatenated JSON values can be read back to back.
That did not hold for numbers: a number is only terminated by the
character following it, and lexer::scan_number() reads that character
and calls unget() -- which is simulated and rewinds only the lexer's own
bookkeeping. input_stream_adapter consumes via sbumpc() with no matching
sungetc(), so the terminating character stayed consumed and the next
extraction started one byte too late ('1true' left the stream at 'rue').

Propagating unget() to the adapter directly does not work: next_unget
makes the following get() replay the cached character, so the terminator
would be delivered twice. Instead, restore the still-pending character
once at the end of a non-strict parse, where the input is handed back to
the caller:

- input_stream_adapter gains unget_character() (sungetc()) and advertises
  it via supports_unget, detected the same way as supports_seek.
- lexer::restore_pending_unget() turns a pending simulated unget of a
  real (non-EOF) character into a real one and clears next_unget so the
  character is not also replayed. It is a no-op for adapters that cannot
  unget, and reports failure when sungetc() fails, in which case the
  input is left as it was before.
- parser calls it on the three non-strict paths, i.e. for operator>> and
  sax_parse(strict = false).

Strict parse()/accept() are unaffected: they require the input to end
after the value, so the character is consumed by the end-of-input check
anyway. Parse error messages and reported positions are unchanged.

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

* tests: fix CI failures in the #5340 test helpers

Four CI failures, all in the new test code:

- GCC (-Werror=useless-cast): drop the `json(...)` wrapper around
  `json::parse(...)`, which already returns a `json`.
- GCC (-Werror=unused-result): assign the discarded `json::parse()`
  result to a dummy, the idiom used elsewhere in the test suite, and
  catch `json::parse_error&` for consistency.
- clang-tidy (google-default-arguments): remove the default argument
  from the `pbackfail()` override; `sungetc()` supplies the base
  declaration's default.
- MSVC (bad allocation): `no_putback_streambuf::underflow()` set a
  one-character get area without advancing `m_pos`, so an implementation
  whose `istream::get` peeks before it bumps re-read the same character
  forever. Keep no get area at all: `underflow()` peeks, `uflow()`
  consumes, and `sungetc()` still always lands in `pbackfail()`, which
  is what the test needs.

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

* fix: leave the character that terminates a number in the input

Read the character following a number without consuming it, instead of
consuming it and putting it back. input_stream_adapter now peeks with
sgetc() and only steps over the character when the next one is requested
or when the adapter is destroyed, so releasing it cannot fail - no
putback position is required from the streambuf.

Suggested by gregmarr in #5344.

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

* docs: match the version history wording to the peek-based fix

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

* docs: drop the whitespace-separator caveat from the parsing pages

The caveat added in #5343 describes the behavior this branch fixes: a
number no longer consumes the character that terminates it, so
concatenated values need no separator.

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

* refactor: split the strict and non-strict paths in parser

Folding the release_lookahead() call into the existing strict check left
the "in strict mode" comment on an else-if branch, and made the strict
condition in sax_parse() redundant with the branch it followed.

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

* Put the stream position fix behind JSON_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION

Leaving the character that terminates a number in the stream is observable:
reading "1,2,3" with repeated operator>> works today only because the comma
after each number is swallowed, and std::getline after a number skips the
line break. Both break with the fix, so make it opt-in for 3.x, as suggested
by @gregmarr in the review.

- JSON_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION (default 0) selects the peek-based
  input_stream_adapter. Without it, the adapter is the consuming one from
  develop and has no supports_lookahead, so lexer::release_lookahead() and
  the parser's calls to it compile to nothing.
- The macro changes input_stream_adapter's layout and member functions, so
  it gets the ABI tag _psp, after _bics. The ABI config tests, the natvis
  generator, and nlohmann_json.natvis (regenerated) know the tag.
- The tests for the fix move to unit-precise-stream-position.cpp, which
  defines the macro itself and runs in every build, and gain the two cases
  above. unit-deserialization.cpp pins the default behavior instead.
- The docs describe the default behavior again and point to the new macro
  page; version history says "added in 3.13.0, planned default in 4.0.0".

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

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2026-09-25 17:56:18 +02:00
Niels Lohmann cc472af13f Check the fuzzers' UBJSON/BJData round-trip invariants in the unit tests (#5569)
* Check the fuzzers' UBJSON/BJData round-trip invariants in the unit tests

The strongest correctness checks for the UBJSON and BJData writers lived
only in the OSS-Fuzz drivers: anything from_ubjson()/from_bjdata()
returns must serialize with every option combination, parse back, and
re-serialize stably. Those checks only run at OSS-Fuzz, so regressions
surfaced days later as external reports - the same BJData assert pair
was reported five times over three years, and #5494's harness change
was followed by OSS-Fuzz 563659413 within a day.

Add "UBJSON round-trip invariants" and "BJData round-trip invariants"
test cases that run the drivers' checks on a fixed, deterministic corpus
(tests/src/round_trip_corpus.hpp): integer and float boundaries,
non-finite numbers, strings, binary values, optimized containers, deep
nesting, the JData annotated-array matrix, and seeded random containers.
They also check two properties the drivers do not: the first round trip
preserves the value, and re-serializing reproduces the exact bytes. For
BJData both exclude values containing a binary value, which is read back
as an array of integers unless it was written as a Draft 3 optimized
binary array; this carve-out is now documented in bjdata.md. Run against
the headers before #5542, the BJData test fails, including on the shape
from OSS-Fuzz 563659413.

Also document how OSS-Fuzz reports are handled (reference them as
"OSS-Fuzz: <id>", turn the reproducer into a unit test, keep drivers and
unit tests in sync) in tests/fuzzing.md, and link it from the PR
template and the quality assurance page.

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

* Add the OSS-Fuzz reproducers for 474400817 and 474480402 as unit tests

Following the convention added to tests/fuzzing.md, the reproducers of
the two BJData fuzzer asserts tracked since January are now unit tests:

- 474400817 (assert(false)): an empty object _ArraySize_ was written as
  the ND-array header length, which from_bjdata() could not read back.
  Fixed by #5455.

- 474480402 (to_bjdata(j2, false, false) == vec2): a one-byte Draft 3
  binary array is written in Draft 2 mode as a uint8 array and then
  re-serialized with the int8 marker. This is the documented exception to
  byte stability, not a library bug; OSS-Fuzz closed it after #5494
  relaxed the harness to value stability. The test pins the exact bytes
  so the exception stays deliberate.

The 563659413 reproducer is already a unit test (#5542). A comment also
ties the existing UBJSON excessive-count test to the timeout OSS-Fuzz
reported for that shape (testcase 6347769435193344).

OSS-Fuzz: 474400817
OSS-Fuzz: 474480402

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

* Fix GCC -Weffc++ and -Wuseless-cast warnings in the round-trip corpus

Initialize the atoms in the member initialization list, and drop the cast of
the generator's result, which already is std::size_t on 64-bit Linux.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-25 08:29:02 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 80bf54a5a2 Add a security assurance case to the documentation (#5572)
Describe the threat model, the trust boundaries, the secure-design
argument, and how common weaknesses are countered, with links to the
quality assurance page as evidence.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-25 08:28:34 +02:00
Niels Lohmann aada27405d Add a roadmap page to the documentation (#5571)
Describe what the project will and will not do over the next year,
and point to issue #3453 for the open question of a 4.0 release.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-25 08:28:16 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 3901b223e5 Complete the architecture documentation page (#5570)
* Complete the architecture documentation page

Replace the placeholder bullets and TODOs with a description of the
component pipeline (with a diagram), the source layout, the template
parameters, the value storage (now in struct data), the input and
output adapters, and the SAX interface.

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

* Link sources and basic_json, document full input adapter interface

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

* Align the default column of the template parameter table

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-25 08:28:00 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 2e91641de2 Test JSON_BRACE_INIT_COPY_SEMANTICS for real, and fix one-element tuples under it (#5544)
* Test JSON_BRACE_INIT_COPY_SEMANTICS for real, and fix one-element tuples under it

The opt-in JSON_BRACE_INIT_COPY_SEMANTICS was never exercised by CI:

- Its only test, in unit-regression3.cpp, was guarded by
  `#if defined(JSON_BRACE_INIT_COPY_SEMANTICS)` after the #include. The
  header #undefs the macro unconditionally in macro_unscope.hpp, so the
  guard was always false and the test compiled to nothing, whatever -D
  flag was passed.
- The ci_test_brace_init_copy_semantics target that passes the flag was
  not named by any workflow.

Move the test into its own translation unit that defines the macro before
including the header, as unit-diagnostics.cpp does for JSON_DIAGNOSTICS.
It now runs in every CI job and for every standard. Remove the unused
target: it ran the whole suite with the macro, and that suite deliberately
relies on default brace-init semantics in about 90 places
(e.g. `json({1})` meaning `[1]`), so it could never pass.

Running the whole suite with the macro did find one library bug:
to_json for std::tuple builds `j = { std::get<Idx>(t)... }`, so with copy
semantics a one-element tuple became its element. `json(std::tuple<int>{5})`
was `5` instead of `[5]`, and `get<std::tuple<int>>()` threw type_error.302
on the result. Under the macro, a one-element tuple now builds exactly what
the default deduction builds. Without the macro nothing changes.

The new tests also pin that the library's other conversions produce the
same values with and without the macro. The macro page now says that the
macro affects every single-element list (`json j = {1}` is `1`), and that
all translation units must agree on it, since it has no ABI tag.

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

* Make JSON_BRACE_INIT_COPY_SEMANTICS part of the ABI tag

The macro changes the body of the initializer-list constructor and adds a
to_json_tuple_impl overload, both with the same mangled names in either
mode, so mixing translation units silently picked one definition. Encode
it in the inline namespace as `_bics`, as JSON_USE_LEGACY_DISCARDED_VALUE_COMPARISON
does with `_ldvcmp`. The macro is new in the unreleased 3.13.0, so no
existing namespace name changes.

- Move the macro's default into abi_macros.hpp so json_fwd.hpp computes
  the same namespace, and keep it defined under JSON_TEST_KEEP_MACROS.
- Check the tag in the ABI config tests and in the unit test.
- List `_bics` (and the missing `_dp`) in the namespace docs and in the
  natvis generator; regenerate nlohmann_json.natvis.
- Replace the "define it consistently" warning with an ABI note.

Suggested by @gregmarr in the review of #5544.

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

* Fix the cppcheck, clang-tidy and legacy-comparison CI failures

- to_json_tuple_impl() moved the element in both branches of a ternary;
  only one runs, but cppcheck reported accessMoved. Use if/else.
- The ABI tag test looked for "json_abi_bics", which misses when another
  tag comes first, as in json_abi_ldvcmp_bics; look for "_bics".
- readability-qualified-auto in the items() test.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-24 17:05:37 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 770f62dda9 Point to the clang-tidy check that rewrites implicit conversions (#5563)
The community-maintained clang-tidy check
modernize-nlohmann-json-explicit-conversions rewrites implicit
conversions into explicit get<T>() calls, which is exactly the
preparation the docs ask for ahead of implicit conversions being
switched off by default. Mention it on the JSON_USE_IMPLICIT_CONVERSIONS
page and in the migration guide, as promised in discussion #4610.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-24 17:02:48 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 918da64657 Keep BJData ndarray annotations that would not survive a round trip as objects (#5542)
write_bjdata_ndarray() encoded a JData-annotated object as a BJData
ND-array whenever its dimensions' product matched _ArrayData_.size(),
which lost information in two ways:

- _ArrayData_ was never required to be an array. null has size 0, any
  other scalar has size 1, and iterating an object visits its values, so
  e.g. {"_ArraySize_":[1],"_ArrayData_":5} was written as the array [5],
  and an object _ArrayData_ came back as an array.

- The reader only restores an annotated object from an ND-array with at
  least two non-zero dimensions that is not a 1xN row vector; an empty,
  1-D, row-vector, or zero-sized shape is read back as a plain array. The
  writer nonetheless emitted ND-array headers for these shapes, so the
  annotation was silently dropped.

OSS-Fuzz issue 563659413 hit this in parse_bjdata_fuzzer: an empty binary
_ArraySize_ is written as a plain object and read back as an empty array,
after which {"_ArrayType_":"int16","_ArraySize_":[],"_ArrayData_":null}
was encoded as the ND-array header "[$I#[]" and re-read as [], failing the
harness's value-stability check.

Such objects now fall back to a plain object encoding, which round-trips.
Genuine ND-arrays (two or more positive dimensions, not a 1xN row vector)
are encoded exactly as before. Existing fallback tests that used 1-D
shapes are moved to 2-D shapes so they keep exercising the check they
were written for, and the BJData documentation is updated.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-24 17:01:31 +02:00
Niels Lohmann f3768d6868 Match ABI tag order in namespace tests to abi_macros.hpp (#5551)
* Match ABI tag order in namespace tests to abi_macros.hpp

NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAGS concatenates the tags as _diag, _ldvcmp, _dp,
but the default and noversion ABI tests expected _diag, _dp, _ldvcmp.
The tests therefore failed whenever both JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS and
JSON_USE_LEGACY_DISCARDED_VALUE_COMPARISON were enabled, a combination
CI never exercises. Reorder the expectations to match the header.

Also document the _dp tag in the namespace feature page, which listed
only _diag and _ldvcmp.

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

* Test the ABI namespace with all ABI tags enabled

Build the default and noversion ABI config tests a second time with
JSON_DIAGNOSTICS, JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS and
JSON_USE_LEGACY_DISCARDED_VALUE_COMPARISON all set, so the expected tag
order is checked on every test run instead of depending on which CMake
options a CI job happens to enable.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-24 17:01:19 +02:00
Niels LohmannandClaude Sonnet 5 56b3ee566c Fix stack overflow when copying a deeply nested value (#5387) (#5389)
* Bound the descent of the copy constructor

basic_json's copy constructor copied objects and arrays by handing the
container to its own copy constructor, which copy-constructs every element
and so reaches this constructor again, once per nesting level. A value
nested deeply enough exhausted the call stack and terminated the process
with a segmentation fault - no exception, nothing the caller could catch.
Parsing such a value works, as the parser is iterative, and so does
destroying one, as #1436 made destruction iterative.

Bound how far the copy descends rather than take the call stack away from
it. The first levels are copied exactly as they were - the containers copy
their own elements, which is by far the fastest way to fill them - and only
once the copy has descended 128 levels is the value below it finished
without the call stack, through an explicit worklist. Copying can therefore
no longer exhaust the stack, however deeply a value is nested, while a value
nested less deeply than the bound - all but a vanishing minority - is copied
by the very same code as before and pays only for one counter.

That counter lives in thread_local storage, as one shared between threads
would be raced. JSON_NO_THREAD_LOCAL switches it off for toolchains without
thread_local; copying then goes through the worklist right away, which
yields the same values but is measurably slower.

The deferred values are completed before the copy they belong to returns, so
a value copied while another copy is going on - by a custom base class, say -
is unaffected by the copy it is nested in.

operator= takes its argument by value, so copy assignment is fixed as well.

Copying is as fast as it was, within measurement noise (medians of 9
interleaved runs, clang -O3): -1.3% for an array of strings, +0.0% for a
flat object, +0.1% for a flat array of numbers, +0.3% for nested arrays,
+0.6% for nested objects and +1.2% for a twitter-like document. Copying a
three-key object costs about ten nanoseconds more, the counter. Deferring
every level instead, rather than only those below the bound, measured
between 3% and 9% slower depending on the shape of the value.

This fixes #5387 for the copy constructor. dump() is still recursive.

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

* Test the copy constructor's iterative path in CI

The copy constructor descends into 128 levels before it finishes a value
without the call stack, so the iterative path is otherwise only reached
by the few tests that nest deeper than that.

JSON_NO_THREAD_LOCAL switches the descent off, which sends every value
down that path. Running the whole test suite that way covers it with
every object type, string type, allocator, and base class the suite
already exercises. The new ci_test_no_thread_local target does that; the
macro had no build coverage at all before.

Copying a nested value also has to carry over what the element-wise copy
constructor would have copied: the parents that JSON_DIAGNOSTICS relies
on, and the positions that JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS reports. Both are
now checked on either side of the descent bound, for objects and arrays.
Neither was tested before, and dropping either one makes the new tests
fail.

Also quantify what JSON_NO_THREAD_LOCAL costs a copy instead of calling
it "measurably slower".

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

* Split the regression tests so that they keep linking

Linking test-regression2 fails with "relocation truncated to fit:
IMAGE_REL_AMD64_REL32 against `.rdata'" once its object grows past what
the MinGW linker copes with, and the copy constructor's helpers push it
over: the object grows by 6.3%, from 4,654,128 to 4,944,920 bytes at -O0,
and develop links at the smaller of the two.

Building the tests optimized shrinks the object enough to link, but the
binaries clang 11.0.1 and clang 18.1.8 then produce crash before doctest
prints its first line - 39 of 102 tests on clang 18 - so the objects have
to become smaller rather than denser.

Moving the test cases that follow "regression tests 2" into a file of
their own brings that object to 4,687,888 bytes, which is 0.7% above the
size that links today rather than 6.3%. Both files still build for C++11,
C++17 and C++20, and run the same 9 test cases and 135 assertions as
before, now spread over two binaries.

New regression tests belong in unit-regression3.cpp from here on, which
is what CONTRIBUTING.md now says.

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

* Do not use thread_local storage with Clang targeting MinGW

Every test that copies a value segfaults there - 42 of 105 on clang
11.0.1, 39 of 102 on clang 18.1.8 - while the same tests pass with GCC
targeting MinGW, with Clang targeting MSVC, and with every other
toolchain the library is tested on. The counter that bounds the copy
constructor's descent is the library's first use of thread_local, so
that job had never exercised it before.

JSON_NO_THREAD_LOCAL already covers toolchains without thread_local
storage, and copying yields the same values with it, only more slowly.
Define it for this one automatically.

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

* Balance the warning suppression the split separated

unit-regression2.cpp opens a DOCTEST_CLANG_SUPPRESS_WARNING_PUSH block at
the top and closed it at the very bottom, which the split moved into
unit-regression3.cpp: one file was left with a push and no pop, the other
with a pop and no push, which clang reports as an error.

Give each file the pair it needs.

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

* Check both shapes without a C-style array

clang-tidy rejects the array the two shapes were iterated over
(cppcoreguidelines-avoid-c-arrays). The array only existed because astyle
reformats a range-for over a braced initializer list into something
unreadable; naming the two cases avoids both.

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

* Split the regression tests far enough to leave room

The first split left unit-regression2.cpp 0.7% below the size develop
links at, which the comparison change in the follow-up immediately used
up: the MinGW linker fails on test-regression2_cpp20 again, naming
copy_shallow and to_partial_ordering among the relocations it cannot fit.

Move the sections from "issue #2067" on, and the helper types they use,
so that the file stops being the one that decides whether the tests can
be linked at all. At -O0 and C++20, unit-regression2.cpp is now 2,964,944
bytes against develop's 4,708,248, and 3,070,568 bytes with the follow-up
applied - roughly a third smaller either way, rather than a fraction of a
percent larger.

The 135 assertions are the same ones as before, now spread over three
test cases in two files.

Also silence the clang-tidy findings the deep-nesting tests draw: the
copies they make are what is being tested, and the reserve() computation
gets its parentheses.

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

* Move the #4804 alias to the file that uses it

The split left the json_4804 alias behind in unit-regression2.cpp while
the test case that uses it went to unit-regression3.cpp, which does not
build for C++17 and C++20 as a result.

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

* Include <span> where the split moved its only use

The #2546 test case guards itself with __has_include(<span>), but the
include itself sat in unit-regression2.cpp's preamble and stayed behind,
so the section compiled without a declaration wherever the guard passed -
which nvhpc reported and libc++ builds do not, as they skip the section
altogether.

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

* Keep the descent bookkeeping in one place

Copying carried a depth count, a depth limit and a guard of its own, and
the comparison in the follow-up added a second set beside them. Neither
operation needs its own: they are never nested inside one another by the
library - copying a value does not compare one, and comparing two values
does not copy them - and where user code nests them anyway, sharing the
count only ends a descent sooner than it had to.

So there is now one nesting_depth(), one nesting_depth_limit() and one
nesting_depth_guard, which the follow-up uses instead of adding its own.
Inverting the test in copy_structured leaves the too-deep case and the
no-thread-local case as the same code.

The guard takes the count rather than looking it up, because the caller
has looked it up already to test it against the limit, and reaching
thread-local storage twice on the path that is taken almost every time is
worth avoiding.

The switch that copies the value of anything that is not an object or an
array was written twice - once in the copy constructor, once in
copy_shallow - so that adding a value_t meant editing both, and missing
one would have been silent. It is copy_leaf_value now, and inlined: both
callers have already sorted the containers out, and folding that test into
the switch is what keeps a value made mostly of numbers copying as fast as
it did.

Copying canada.json, citm_catalog.json and twitter.json is within 0.6% of
what it was before, measured as a paired ratio over 18 interleaved rounds
against a run-to-run spread of 0.3%.

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

* Check that an abandoned copy can still be destroyed

Copying a value without the call stack builds the copy from the top down,
and every value whose own copy has not been made yet stays a null value
until it is. That is what lets a copy be abandoned half-built: the
destructor finds nothing but complete values and null ones.

Nothing tested it. Failing an allocation part-way through a copy of a
deeply nested value does, with the allocator the file already has for
exactly this kind of test.

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

* Name the test's locals so Flawfinder stops matching them

The code scanning job reports CWE-362 - "check when opening files" - for
a test that opens no files: Flawfinder matched a local variable called
open. Rename it and its partner.

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

* Keep the descent guard's bookkeeping self-contained

nesting_depth_limit() and nesting_depth_guard were only used inside
the JSON_NO_THREAD_LOCAL-guarded branch of copy_structured(), but were
defined unconditionally. Move them inside the #ifndef, and have the
guard look up the depth and test it against the limit itself (via
okay()) instead of making the caller do it - the caller no longer
needs to touch nesting_depth() at all. Also shrink the thread-local
counter to std::uint8_t, matching what its own doc comment already
argued.

Addresses gregmarr's review comments on #5389.

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

* Make nesting_depth_guard usable regardless of JSON_NO_THREAD_LOCAL

nesting_depth_limit() and nesting_depth() stay behind #ifndef
JSON_NO_THREAD_LOCAL, since a descent cannot be bounded without a
per-thread count. But the guard itself now always exists, becoming a
no-op that is never okay() under that macro - the same way the bound
is already reached on every call without one. copy_structured() no
longer needs to know which case it is in.

This is what lets #5390 reuse the guard for comparison, which cannot
test JSON_NO_THREAD_LOCAL where the macro-based operators use it: the
guard now carries that distinction itself instead of requiring every
caller to.

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

* Silence VS2015's C4503 for the custom-base-class test

The deep-copy support added for #5387 lengthened the mangled name of
std::allocator_traits<...>::construct for the test's map type past
VS2015's limit, which /WX turns into a build failure even though the
name is only used for (now-truncated) debug info.

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

* Remove dead unused-parameter casts from copy_metadata()

@gregmarr asked whether the static_cast<void> pair in the
JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS-off branch was needed for an empty
json_base_class_t. It isn't: src and dst are already referenced
unconditionally by the base-class copy above, so no -Wunused-parameter
warning fires either way (checked with -Wall -Wextra
-Wunused-parameter, JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS 0 and 1).

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

* Fix CI: build custom array types without a fill constructor, re-amalgamate

copy_array_level() built the destination array with the fill
constructor array_t(count, value), which is not part of the array
container interface the library otherwise assumes (e.g. custom
ArrayTypes that only provide a default and an iterator-pair
constructor, as covered by unit-custom-array-type.cpp). Default-
construct the array and resize() it instead, matching how the rest
of the codebase already grows array_t.

Also re-run the amalgamation, which had fallen out of sync with
include/nlohmann/json.hpp.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 17:01:15 +02:00
Niels LohmannandClaude Sonnet 5 ed513715a8 Document that a NUL byte in the input is treated as end of input (#5534)
* docs: document that a NUL byte in the input is treated as end of input

A NUL byte anywhere in the input - trailing, or embedded ahead of more
otherwise well-formed JSON - is currently treated the same as genuine
end of input, so parsing silently stops there instead of raising the
parse_error.101 any other unexpected byte triggers. This mirrors the
NUL-terminated-C-string convention already used when no explicit input
length is given (json::parse(const char*) already stops at strlen()),
just applied uniformly rather than only when a length is genuinely
unavailable.

This behavior predates this change and is not being altered here -
changing it would be an observable, backwards-incompatible behavior
change for any caller that (knowingly or not) depends on it, which is
not something to do silently in a patch. Documenting the current,
verified behavior as a new FAQ entry instead, so it's an intentional
and discoverable part of the contract rather than a surprise.

Fixes #5530.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <niels.lohmann@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N4RQ1Ahan5YAGbnAQGjZTY

* Add JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING opt-in macro for issue #5530

A NUL byte anywhere in the input is currently treated the same as real
end of input, rather than raising parse_error.101 like any other
unexpected byte (documented in the previous commit's FAQ entry). A full
unconditional fix was tried in PR #5532 but rejected as too risky to
ship by default: any caller could depend on the current behavior, even
unknowingly (e.g. a zero-padded buffer). On PR #5534, gregmarr proposed
a compile-time opt-in flag instead, and the maintainer agreed, wanting
it available now and defaulting to the corrected behavior in 4.0.0.

This mirrors the existing JSON_BRACE_INIT_COPY_SEMANTICS precedent as
closely as sensible:
- JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING defaults to 0 (off); the three lexer sites
  that treat '\0' as EOF/comment-terminator are gated with
  `#if !JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING` so the default-off behavior is
  byte-for-byte identical to today's.
- input_adapters.hpp's `T (&array)[N]` overload additionally trims a
  single trailing '\0' from a `char` array (e.g. a string literal like
  `json::parse("123")`) when the macro is on, so that case keeps
  working; every other element type (unsigned char, std::uint8_t, ...)
  always keeps its full extent. This intentionally does *not* reuse the
  existing strlen()-based pointer overload via SFINAE-excluding `char`
  from the array overload, as originally sketched for this change: that
  approach is ambiguous against the newer generic container overload
  added since PR #5532, and even where it compiles, strlen()-scanning a
  `char` array that is not NUL-terminated within its bounds reads past
  the end of the array (confirmed with AddressSanitizer). Trimming only
  a single trailing byte, without scanning, avoids both problems.
- Documented via docs/mkdocs/docs/api/macros/json_strict_nul_handling.md,
  linked from the macros index/nav/features page, the FAQ entry, and
  the parse/accept/operator>> reference pages.
- Tested in unit-class_parser.cpp and unit-deserialization.cpp, default
  state unguarded and opt-in state guarded. Since the library itself
  #undefs the macro at the end of json.hpp (as JSON_BRACE_INIT_COPY_SEMANTICS
  already does), a plain `#if defined(JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING)` guard
  after the include never actually triggers; the tests instead capture
  the command-line value into a test-local macro before including the
  header. A few pre-existing fixtures elsewhere (std::array<uint8_t, N>
  sized one larger than their literal, relying on value-initialization
  to silently add a trailing zero byte) needed the same one-byte
  adjustment to keep passing under the opt-in behavior.

Unlike the precedent, this adds a proper `JSON_StrictNulHandling` CMake
option (rather than a raw -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS injection) and wires its
ci_test_strict_nul_handling target into the ci_cmake_options job matrix
in .github/workflows/ubuntu.yml, so the opt-in build is actually
exercised in CI -- closing the one gap in the precedent's own CI setup
(ci_test_brace_init_copy_semantics is defined but never referenced by
any workflow, so it has never actually run).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Clarify where JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING does not reject NUL bytes

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 06:55:21 +02:00
dependabot[bot] 06b0452189 Bump mkdocs-git-revision-date-localized-plugin in /docs/mkdocs (#5537)
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- [Release notes](https://github.com/timvink/mkdocs-git-revision-date-localized-plugin/releases)
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2026-09-23 20:32:31 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 0b20b7e622 Reject MessagePack/BSON binary subtypes that don't fit their wire format (#5469)
* Reject MessagePack/BSON binary subtypes that don't fit their wire format

Both formats store byte_container_with_subtype's subtype (a uint64_t)
in a single byte. The writers cast to std::int8_t/std::uint8_t without
a range check, so subtypes above 255 were silently truncated modulo
256 instead of raising an error. Throw out_of_range.413 instead when
the subtype exceeds the representable range of 0-255.

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

* Move the new binary-subtype regression test out of unit-regression2.cpp

unit-regression2.cpp is already at the edge of what the MinGW linker
can relocate; adding this test's ~26 lines tips test-regression2_cpp20
(clang, Windows) over into "relocation truncated to fit:
IMAGE_REL_AMD64_REL32 against `.rdata'" (see 8ce64b9c1 / b82717c8a for
the same failure mode). Split the test along format lines instead:
MessagePack assertions move to unit-msgpack.cpp, BSON assertions to
unit-bson.cpp. The CBOR round-trip guard is dropped as redundant --
unit-cbor.cpp's "Tagged values" section already round-trips subtypes
up to 8589934590, far past the 70000 checked here.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-22 21:52:32 +02:00
Niels Lohmann d2c1a6a272 Reject array insert(pos, first, last) iterators not pointing into an array (#5468)
The array-range insert() overload checked that pos fits the current
value and that first/last share the same owning value, but never
verified that value is itself an array. Passing iterators from an
object, a primitive, or null handed value-initialized (singular)
std::vector iterators straight to array_t::insert(), which is
undefined behavior. Add the missing is_array() check, mirroring the
equivalent check already present in the object-range insert()
overload.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-22 21:52:31 +02:00
Niels LohmannandClaude Opus 5 c72f37a40d Support custom object/array types and improve template parameter handling (#5443)
* docs: document the implicit requirements on basic_json's template parameters

The requirements that basic_json places on its eleven template parameters
were only implied by how the library uses the resulting object_t, array_t,
string_t, etc. Consumers had to discover them by trial and error.

Add "Template Parameter Requirements" collecting them, split into what is
always required and what is only required when a particular part of the API
is instantiated. Notable findings that were previously undocumented:

- ObjectType must provide a key_compare member type (actual_object_comparator
  names object_t::key_compare in both arms of a std::conditional), and its
  third template parameter is used as a comparator, so std::unordered_map
  cannot be used without a wrapper.
- ArrayType must provide capacity() -- push_back(), emplace_back(),
  operator+=(), and operator[](size_type) call it unconditionally -- and
  needs random-access iterators, so std::deque and std::list do not work.
- StringType needs contiguous, null-terminated data(), a one-byte value_type,
  and either assignability from std::to_string or an ADL int_to_string().
- NumberFloatType must be float, double, or long double for parsing and
  serialization; the integer types must satisfy std::is_integral.
- AllocatorType must be stateless, support incomplete types, and use plain
  pointers.
- BooleanType and the number types are union members and must be trivial.

Link the new page from the basic_json overview, the types feature page, and
the individual type alias pages, and correct the container examples given for
ObjectType (std::unordered_map) and ArrayType (std::list), which do not work.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018hxZxz8svM54c6ATEvXp5E
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Fix object_comparator_t for object types without key_compare

detail::actual_object_comparator selected between object_t::key_compare and
default_object_comparator_t with std::conditional. Both type arguments of
std::conditional are named eagerly, so object_t::key_compare had to exist
regardless of the condition, and the has_key_compare guard added in 3.11.0
never took effect: any ObjectType without a key_compare member type failed to
compile while instantiating basic_json itself.

Use detected_or_t instead, which resolves through a SFINAE partial
specialization and only names object_t::key_compare when it exists. The
selected type is unchanged for every object type that compiled before, so
object_comparator_t -- a public member type -- keeps its meaning and ABI.

has_key_compare had no other users and is removed.

Add a regression test using an adapter around std::unordered_map, which has no
key_compare; it fails to compile without this change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018hxZxz8svM54c6ATEvXp5E
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* docs: list the types that are known to work for each template parameter

Follow up on the template parameter requirements page: state, for every
template parameter, which concrete types work and where they stop working.
Each entry was verified by compiling and running a common workload (DOM
access, dump, parse, CBOR/MessagePack round-trip, flatten, hash) against that
instantiation.

Findings worth calling out:

- ObjectType no longer needs a key_compare member type, so the std::unordered_map
  adapter only has to restore the template argument order. A hash-ordered
  ObjectType works everywhere except unflatten(), which reconstructs an array
  only when it meets the reference token 0 before the other indices.
- ArrayType: std::deque works when wrapped to add capacity(); std::list does not.
- StringType: std::pmr::string and std::basic_string with a custom allocator
  compile for the DOM, dump, and parse, but not for the binary readers, flatten,
  or diff, because the library assigns std::string values to string_t and
  int_to_string cannot be overloaded for a type in namespace std.
- NumberFloatType: long double works for dump and parse but not for the binary
  formats, which have no encoding for it.
- BinaryType: std::vector<std::byte> supports assignment, get, and the binary
  formats, but neither dump nor std::hash<basic_json>.

Also record the object_comparator_t fix in its version history.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018hxZxz8svM54c6ATEvXp5E
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Fix unflatten and binary dumping for non-default configurations

unflatten() decided between array and object by looking at the first reference
token it happened to see for a node: it started an array only when that token
was 0. With a sorted object type the token 0 always arrives first, so the
result was correct by accident; with an object type whose iteration order is
unspecified, {"/c/2":3,"/c/1":2,"/c/0":1} unflattened to an object with the
keys "0", "1", and "2" instead of an array.

Collect the pointer prefixes that have a reference token 0 among their children
before building the result, and let get_and_create() consult that set. The
outcome is now independent of the iteration order and matches, for every input,
what a sorted object type produced before: a value is restored as an array if
and only if one of its keys is 0. Iterating the flattened object in a different
order would have been simpler, but it would have changed the key order of the
result for insertion-ordered object types.

The serializer, std::hash, and the UBJSON writer converted the elements of a
binary value to an integer implicitly, which does not compile for a BinaryType
whose value type is std::byte, and which made dump() write the bytes of a
signed value type as negative numbers. Convert to std::uint8_t explicitly in
all three places, so every byte type dumps as 0..255. The default
std::vector<std::uint8_t> configuration is unaffected.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018hxZxz8svM54c6ATEvXp5E
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* docs: note which Abseil containers can be used as template arguments

Checked against Abseil release 20250127.0 with the same workload as the other
entries on the page (DOM access, dump, parse, CBOR/MessagePack/UBJSON
round-trip, flatten, hash), with and without JSON_DIAGNOSTICS.

absl::flat_hash_map and absl::node_hash_map work as ObjectType through an
adapter that restores the template argument order and makes erase(iterator)
return the following iterator, which Abseil's returns as void. The page now
carries that adapter, and notes that absl::flat_hash_map does not keep
references to the mapped values valid across insertions while
absl::node_hash_map does. Both have a capacity() member, so JSON_DIAGNOSTICS
already refreshes the parent pointers conservatively for them.

absl::btree_map and absl::InlinedVector cannot be used at all: object_t and
array_t are formed while basic_json is still incomplete, and both inspect
their value type at class scope. std::map and std::vector are required by the
standard to tolerate this, third-party containers generally are not, so the
page states the constraint on its own rather than only per container.

absl::InlinedVector does work as BinaryType, where it is instantiated with a
complete type. absl::FixedArray and absl::Cord are not usable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018hxZxz8svM54c6ATEvXp5E
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Relax the ArrayType and ObjectType requirements

Two requirements forced users of otherwise suitable containers to write a
wrapper, and neither was load-bearing.

array_t::capacity() was read in push_back(), emplace_back(), operator+=(), and
operator[](size_type), but set_parent() only looks at the value under
JSON_DIAGNOSTICS; without diagnostics it was computed and discarded. Read it
through array_capacity(), which reports unknown_size() when diagnostics are off
or when the array type has no capacity() at all, and treat an unknown capacity
as "the elements may have moved" so the parent pointers are refreshed
conservatively. std::deque now works as ArrayType, in both builds, and
capacity() is no longer named at all in a default build. Since the capacity is
now only meaningful for array insertions, it moves out of set_parent() into
set_parent_after_array_insert().

basic_json::erase(iterator) assigned the object's erase() return value, which
requires the container to return the following iterator. Abseil's hash maps
return void to avoid computing a successor the caller may not need. Detect that
and compute the successor before erasing; containers that return an iterator,
including the vector-backed ordered_map where a precomputed successor would be
wrong, keep the existing path.

Together these leave an Abseil hash map needing only an alias that restores the
template argument order, and no adapter at all for std::deque.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018hxZxz8svM54c6ATEvXp5E
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Do not require string_t to be convertible from std::string

Three places built a std::string and handed it to something expecting a
string_t: the UBJSON high-precision number reader, which every binary reader
instantiates, and the BSON writer's array element size calculation and write.
That silently required string_t to be implicitly convertible from std::string,
which std::string itself and types with a string_view conversion satisfy, but
many string types do not.

Construct the string_t explicitly from the data and size, which the
requirements already cover. This makes boost::container::string, eastl::string,
std::pmr::string, and std::basic_string with a custom allocator work as
StringType, none of which could previously be used with any binary format.

Add binary format coverage to the alt_string test, which had none, including a
UBJSON high-precision number -- the case that goes through the reader path.
BSON stays uncovered there: it additionally needs string_t::find(value_type),
which alt_string does not provide.

Also record which containers from Boost, Abseil, and EASTL work for each
template parameter, and correct two claims: std::pmr::string is usable after
this change, and tsl::ordered_map is not usable at all, because its iterators
expose the mapped value as const while basic_json modifies it in place.

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

* docs: record compatibility for the common header-only hash maps

ankerl::unordered_dense (map and segmented_map), phmap (flat_hash_map and
node_hash_map), and robin_hood::unordered_flat_map all work as ObjectType
through the same adapter as Abseil's and Boost's hash maps, which only has to
restore the template argument order.

phmap::btree_map and robin_hood::unordered_node_map do not: like the other
btree containers they require a complete value type.

Note that none of these hash maps defines key_compare, so every one of them
depends on object_comparator_t falling back to default_object_comparator_t.

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

* docs: record Folly and the remaining vector replacements

Folly works, with the caveat that its headers need C++20: folly::fbstring as
StringType, folly::fbvector and folly::small_vector as ArrayType,
folly::fbvector<std::uint8_t> as BinaryType, and folly::F14NodeMap as
ObjectType through the usual argument-order adapter. folly::F14FastMap is the
exception and requires a complete value type.

For ArrayType, boost::container::devector, boost::container::static_vector
(within its fixed capacity), and std::pmr::vector work as well.

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

* docs: cover fifo_map, gtl, folly::sorted_vector_map, and Qt

nlohmann::fifo_map works through the adapter that has always been documented
for it, and preserves the insertion order. Restore its mention in the object
order page, which was dropped together with the tsl::ordered_map one: unlike
ordered_map it keeps a lookup index, so it is the insertion-ordered option
without the quadratic cost.

gtl::flat_hash_map and folly::sorted_vector_map work as well, the latter
through an alias that drops the allocator, whose value type it disagrees on.
gtl::btree_map does not, for the same reason as the other btree containers.

None of the Qt containers can be used, each for its own reason: QMap has no
value_type, QHash iterators yield the mapped value rather than a pair, QList
has no max_size(), QByteArray spells empty() as isEmpty(), and QString is
UTF-16.

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

* docs: qualify the std::pmr::string support claim

Listing std::pmr::string as fully supported was an overclaim: it was only ever
checked with the default memory resource, which is not what PMR is for.

basic_json cannot be given an allocator or a memory resource, so a pmr string
inside a value always allocates from std::pmr::get_default_resource(), and
assigning an arena-backed string into a value silently drops its resource,
because polymorphic_allocator does not propagate on copy construction. Passing
polymorphic_allocator as AllocatorType does not compile either. Only the
process-global set_default_resource() redirects these allocations.

Say so, and separate the row from std::basic_string with a custom stateless
allocator, which is unaffected.

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

* docs: remove a duplicated StringType compatibility section

The StringType section carried two 'Compatible types' tables and two copies of
the reference-implementation tip. The second table was a stale copy from before
the binary format string fixes and still listed std::pmr::string and
std::basic_string with a custom allocator as unusable, contradicting the
corrected table a few lines above it, and it dragged along the old explanation
that blamed int_to_string.

Drop the stale copy and put the surviving table before the notes, so the
'see below' in the std::pmr::string row points forwards.

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

* docs: correct the template parameter requirements after independent verification

Every claim on the page was re-checked by compiling and running it, including
the rows that say a type cannot be used, which were checked to fail for the
documented reason and not merely to fail. Twenty-four claims were wrong.

The most consequential: the incomplete-type constraint applies to ObjectType
only. object_t is instantiated inside the class definition, because it is
probed for key_compare; array_t is only named there and is not instantiated
until basic_json is complete. So eastl::vector, QList and QVector are not
excluded by incomplete types at all -- they simply have no max_size() -- and
absl::InlinedVector is excluded for a subtler reason of its own.

Further corrections: ObjectType does not need erase(key), which has a fallback,
but does need at(key) for UBJSON output; only == and < are used, or == and <=>
under C++20, not all six; the documented adapter does not fit ankerl or
robin_hood. ArrayType needs no initializer-list insert, and value_type, the
(count, value) constructor and swappability are per-function, not always.
BinaryType needs a range insert for CBOR indefinite-length byte strings and
does not need push_back. StringType needs append(const StringType&)
unconditionally, and does not need operator!= or operator== against const
char*; empty(), resize(n) and reserve(n) are per-subsystem; int_to_string is
needed by diff, items and std::hash rather than by JSON Pointer or flatten.
BooleanType must be implicitly convertible from bool, and JSONSerializer's
second parameter need not carry a default.

std::pmr::string was wrong in the other direction this time: a moved-in string
does keep its memory resource, and later growth allocates from it. Only copies
land on the default resource.

Five requirement violations are not caught at compile time rather than the two
the page claimed; they are now listed together up front. Split every
compatibility table into what works and what does not, as the reasons in the
second half are the useful part.

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

* Reduce the string_t and array_t members the library requires

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>

* docs: record the reduced string_t and array_t requirements

Drop c_str(), back(), find(str, pos), replace(), and substr() from the
StringType requirements and at(size_type) from the ArrayType ones, and
note the string assignment the JSON pointer code performs. Streaming a
json_pointer no longer needs assignability from a std::string.

Add the non-null-terminated data() to the list of violations that are not
diagnosed at compile time -- it was described in the StringType section
but missing from the summary at the top -- and correct the QString row,
which no longer fails for the c_str() it lacks.

JSON_CATCH_USER no longer wraps a catch of std::out_of_range: the last one
went away with array_t::at(). Describe what the library actually catches.

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

* Use character literals for the signed BinaryType test

MSVC rejects char(0xFF) with C4310 (cast truncates constant value),
which the Windows workflow treats as an error. The character literals
carry the same byte values without a narrowing cast.

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

* Do not instantiate a hash map with an incomplete basic_json in the tests

object_t is probed for key_compare inside the definition of basic_json, so
it is instantiated while basic_json is still incomplete. Whether a hash map
survives that depends on the standard library: libstdc++ 9 needs the size of
the mapped type to instantiate std::unordered_map's node type and rejects
the adapter, which broke the GCC 9 builds.

The test now derives its no-key_compare object type from std::map -- which
does cope -- and shadows the inherited key_compare member type with an
entity that is not a type, so the library's probe finds none, exactly as for
a hash map. The unflatten() order-independence checks in unit-json_pointer
already cover the behaviour that the unordered object type was there for.
The limitation is documented for std::unordered_map.

Also address two Clang-Tidy findings the earlier commits introduced:
erase_from_object() declares its iterator with auto, and at(size_type) checks
the type first and then falls through to the return instead of throwing from
an else branch.

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

* Keep diagnostic key paths null-terminated

Building the token from data() and size() kept an embedded null byte in the
key, and since what() hands out a C string, that truncated the whole message
rather than just the key: to_bson() on a key containing U+0000 reported
"[json.exception.out_of_range.409] (/en" instead of the full explanation.
This broke test-bson under JSON_DIAGNOSTICS.

Constructing from data() alone stops at the first null byte, which is what
c_str() did before, so the message is unchanged -- without requiring
string_t to provide c_str().

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

* Do not parse the value in the array-at() test

JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS adds the byte range of the value to the exception
message, which a parsed value has and an in-memory one does not, so the two
message checks failed in that configuration. Build the array in memory
instead of parsing it; the test is about at(size_type) not needing
array_t::at(), and the byte range is beside the point.

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

* Move the custom BinaryType tests into their own translation unit

The two sections added to unit-regression2.cpp brought a third full
basic_json instantiation into a translation unit that was already large.
With Clang on MinGW that pushed the object over the reach of a 32-bit
relocation and test-regression2_cpp20.exe failed to link:

    relocation truncated to fit: IMAGE_REL_AMD64_REL32 against `.rdata'

unit-regression2.cpp is restored to exactly what it was before, and the
coverage moves to unit-custom-binary-type.cpp, next to the object and array
type tests it belongs with. The signed value type is now also covered in
C++11, where std::byte is not available.

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

* Do not require the container iterators to be nothrow move constructible

iter_impl declared its defaulted move operations noexcept. The exception
specification a defaulted function gets implicitly follows from its members,
here internal_iterator, which holds the object and array iterators. libstdc++
gives std::deque's iterator a user-provided copy constructor without noexcept
before version 11, so the implicit specification is noexcept(false) and does
not match the declared one. That deletes the function -- and with g++ 4.8,
which predates CWG 1778, it is an error outright:

    error: function 'iter_impl<basic_json<std::map, std::deque> >::iter_impl(
    iter_impl&&)' defaulted on its first declaration with an
    exception-specification that differs from the implicit declaration

So std::deque, which this branch documents as a usable array type, could not
be used with an older standard library. Leaving the specification to be
computed cannot mismatch; iteration_proxy_value already spells out the same
condition next door.

The default configuration is unaffected: json::iterator, json::const_iterator
and ordered_json::iterator stay nothrow move constructible and move
assignable, which the test now checks so it cannot regress unnoticed.

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

* Address two Clang-Tidy findings the custom container tests exposed

Both come from instantiating basic_json with containers other than the
default ones, and neither shows up with the Clang-Tidy version available
outside CI:

- insert(const_iterator, basic_json&&) forwards its by-value iterator to
  the const-reference overload. performance-unnecessary-value-param asks
  for the copy to be a move; it only fires for an iterator that is not
  trivially copyable, as std::deque's is not. The NOLINT on the function
  does not cover it, because the finding is reported where the parameter
  is used rather than where it is declared. Move it, which is what the
  check asks for and is a (very small) improvement in its own right.

- cppcoreguidelines-use-enum-class rejects the unnamed enum that shadowed
  the inherited key_compare member type. An enum class would not do, since
  it declares a type of that name and the probe would find it again; a
  member function declaration hides the name just as well.

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

* Assert the iterators' exception specification relative to the container

The test pinned that nlohmann::json's iterators stay nothrow movable after
iter_impl's defaulted move operations lost their declared noexcept. That is
not a property of the library, though: the exception specification is now
computed from the container iterators, so it holds only for standard library
implementations whose iterators are themselves nothrow movable.

MSVC's checked iterators before VS2017 are not -- _Iterator_base12 registers
the iterator with the container's debug proxy in a copy constructor that
carries no noexcept -- so the assertions fail on a Visual Studio 2015 debug
build, which is the one debug configuration in the AppVeyor matrix and has no
counterpart in the GitHub Actions matrix.

Assert what the change actually guarantees instead: the iterators are nothrow
movable exactly when the object and array iterators they are built from are.
That still pins the default configuration against a silent regression, and it
is true whatever the standard library provides.

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

* Detect a void-returning erase() through a named trait

erase_from_object() distinguished its two overloads with a decltype of a
member call written inline in a default template argument. Every other
detection in the library goes through the detector machinery in detected.hpp
instead -- has_erase_with_key_type is the same question about the same member
function -- and the inline form is the one shape older compilers are least
reliable about.

Express it the same way: detect_erase_with_iterator plus is_detected_exact,
both of which the library already relies on elsewhere. No behaviour changes.

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

* Give the custom container types only the constructors the library uses

The three container types in the new tests inherited every constructor of
their base with using Base::Base. That asks for more than the test needs: the
library builds an object or an array by default construction, by copy or move,
and -- when converting between two basic_json types or from an initializer
list -- from an iterator range. Declaring those directly makes the requirement
visible in the test, and keeps object types out of a corner where a compiler
has to declare std::map's whole constructor set for a derived class while
basic_json is still incomplete.

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

* Temporarily disable the new custom container tests

AppVeyor is the only CI that builds MSVC 2015 and 2017, and it has now
rejected three heads of this branch. Its build log is not reachable from
where this is being worked on, so the verdict is a single bit and the cause
has to be narrowed down by bisection.

Everything else stays: the library changes, the reduced alt_string, and the
unflatten() tests. If AppVeyor passes with these three translation units
disabled, the cause is one of the six basic_json instantiations they add; if
it fails, it is in the library. Either way this commit is reverted.

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

* Guard the disabled tests with a macro rather than #if 0

Clang-Tidy's readability-avoid-unconditional-preprocessor-if rejects a literal
#if 0. Use a macro that is never defined instead, which the check does not
look at. Still temporary, and reverted together with the previous commit.

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

* Re-enable the array and binary container tests

AppVeyor passed with all three new translation units disabled, so the library
changes, the reduced alt_string, and the unflatten() tests are fine on MSVC
2015 and 2017; the cause is one of the six basic_json instantiations the new
tests add.

Bring back two of the three. If AppVeyor passes again, the cause is in
unit-custom-object-type.cpp, which is the one still disabled; if it fails, it
is in one of these two and needs one more split. Still temporary.

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

* Diagnose two silently violated template parameter requirements

Both were on the list of requirements that are not caught at compile time and
corrupt values rather than failing, and both are a plain size comparison:

- A BinaryType whose value_type is wider than one byte, which the readers and
  writers reinterpret as raw bytes anyway.
- A NumberUnsignedType too narrow to hold the absolute value of every
  NumberIntegerType value, which makes basic_json(INT64_MIN).dump() yield -0
  for std::int64_t with std::uint32_t.

Neither static_assert rejects a configuration that worked before: both only
fire where the result was already wrong. Also add the two comments the review
asked for, in write_bson_string() and calc_bson_array_size(), matching the
ones their counterparts already carry.

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

* Align the template parameter tables and record what is now diagnosed

Every table in the page is reformatted so each column is exactly as wide as
its widest cell, which is what the review asked for in a dozen places: the
separator rows that ran two dashes long, the stray spaces, and the columns
padded well past their content.

The row listing six containers that require a complete mapped type is split
in two so that one cell no longer sets the width of the whole table.

Content changes: NumberUnsignedType is described as any unsigned integer type
at least as wide as NumberIntegerType rather than any unsigned integer type;
the two requirements that are now static_asserts move out of the list of
violations that are not caught at compile time; and the two places that
require a non-const operator[] say why data() will not do (std::string has no
non-const data() before C++17).

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

* Bisect the other way: only the object container tests

The previous head touched only docs/, which AppVeyor's only_commits filter
skips, so it produced no build and no status at all -- the pull request looked
green without ever having been built on MSVC 2015 or 2017.

Swap the guards instead of repeating that step: unit-custom-object-type.cpp is
enabled and the array and binary translation units are disabled. AppVeyor
already passed with all three disabled, so a failure here pins the cause on
no_key_compare_json or void_erase_json, and a pass pins it on the array or
binary file. Still temporary.

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

* Split the two object types apart

AppVeyor failed with only unit-custom-object-type.cpp enabled and passed with
all three new translation units disabled, so the cause is one of the two
object types in this file and not the array or binary ones.

Guard out void_erase_map and leave no_key_compare_map, which separates the two
constructs under suspicion: shadowing the inherited key_compare member type
with an entity that is not a type, and hiding the inherited erase with a
void-returning overload. A failure here points at the first, a pass at the
second. Still temporary.

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

* Build the no-key_compare object type by composition, not inheritance

The "object type without key_compare" test failed on AppVeyor's MSVC
2017 jobs (/std:c++17): its no_key_compare_map derived publicly from
std::map and shadowed the inherited key_compare type with a same-named
member function, relying on ordinary member hiding to make key_compare
unreachable as a type for the library's detection trait. MSVC 2017
does not honor that hiding for a typename-qualified lookup performed
from outside the class and still resolves key_compare to the base's
comparator type, so object_comparator_t incorrectly picked it up
instead of falling back to default_object_comparator_t.

Wrapping a std::map by composition instead removes the base class
entirely, so there is no key_compare to find under any lookup rule,
on any compiler. Also drops the now-unneeded JSON_BISECT_CUSTOM_CONTAINER_TESTS
guard left over from narrowing this down: the void_erase_map test in
the same file was never the cause and is re-enabled unconditionally.

Verified locally with clang++ and g++ under C++17 and C++20.

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

* Re-enable the array and binary custom-container tests

unit-custom-array-type.cpp and unit-custom-binary-type.cpp were still
guarded behind JSON_BISECT_CUSTOM_CONTAINER_TESTS from bisecting the
AppVeyor failure fixed in 7c39f3227, which was unrelated to either
file. The macro was never defined, so none of these tests actually ran
in CI. Verified locally with clang++ and g++ under C++17 and C++20
before removing the guards.

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

* Fix indentation of custom_object_type per astyle

The one-line function bodies in the composition-based no_key_compare_map
(7c39f3227) do not match the project's Allman brace style, which the
ci_test_amalgamation job enforces with astyle. Reformatted with the
pinned astyle 3.4.13; no functional change.

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

* docs: add compiled reference implementations for the container template parameters

Each of ObjectType, ArrayType, StringType, and BinaryType now links to a
minimal, self-contained header (docs/mkdocs/docs/examples/custom_*_type.hpp)
that wraps the corresponding standard container by composition and satisfies
every "Always required" member listed on that page. Unlike the prose
requirement lists, these are real code: each header has a companion .cpp that
instantiates a basic_json specialization with it and is compiled and run by
the existing ci_test_examples check (docs/Makefile's check_output_portable),
so the reference implementations cannot silently drift from what the library
actually requires. The .output files were generated with that same target.

StringType's existing pointer to tests/src/unit-alt-string.cpp's alt_string
is kept alongside the new header as a more thorough, battle-tested example.

Verified locally: astyle (pinned 3.4.13, project .astylerc) on the new files;
clang++/g++ under C++11/17/20 for each example against the amalgamated
header; `make check_output_portable` in docs/; `mkdocs build --strict` and
scripts/check_structure.py for the page itself.

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

* Declare no_key_compare_map's accessors noexcept

The GCC C++20 job builds with -Wnoexcept and -Werror, and the standard
library takes noexcept(c.begin()) and noexcept(c.end()) in ranges_base.h and
range_access.h. Forwarding to std::map without repeating its noexcept made
those expressions false, which the warning reports as an error:

  error: noexcept-expression evaluates to 'false' because of a call to
         no_key_compare_map<...>::begin()          [-Werror=noexcept]
  note:  but ... does not throw; perhaps it should be declared 'noexcept'

Give the accessors the exception specification of what they forward to.
std::map declares begin, end, cbegin, cend, empty, size, max_size, and clear
noexcept, so the wrapper does too. swap is left alone: std::map's is only
conditionally noexcept, and nothing asks for it.

void_erase_map is unaffected because it still derives from std::map and
inherits accessors that already carry the specification.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018hxZxz8svM54c6ATEvXp5E
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Write out what the defaulted constructor of no_key_compare_map implied

ci_test_gcc builds with -Weffc++, which asks for data to be initialized in a
member initialization list; a defaulted default constructor does not do that:

  error: 'no_key_compare_map<...>::data' should be initialized in the member
         initialization list                              [-Werror=effc++]

Writing the constructor out satisfies that but drops the exception
specification the defaulted one carried, which -Wnoexcept then objects to
where the standard library takes noexcept(construct(...)). Declare it the way
the defaulted constructor was: noexcept when the wrapped map's default
constructor is.

This is the cost of composition -- inheritance carried std::map's exception
specifications and initialization for free, and forwarding by hand has to
restate them.

Checked with the repository's own GCC warning set from cmake/gcc_flags.cmake,
all 346 flags, at C++11, C++17 and C++20: no diagnostics for this file, nor
for the two custom container translation units that were disabled while the
MSVC failure was narrowed down and are built again now.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018hxZxz8svM54c6ATEvXp5E
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Mark no_key_compare_map::swap noexcept

Clang-Tidy rejects a swap that is not:

  error: swap functions should be marked noexcept
         [cppcoreguidelines-noexcept-swap,performance-noexcept-swap]

It was left unmarked on the grounds that std::map::swap is only
conditionally noexcept, so an unconditional promise would be wrong for a
comparator or allocator that can throw while swapping. Both concerns are met
by taking the specification from the wrapped map rather than asserting one:
noexcept(noexcept(data.swap(other.data))). Clang-Tidy accepts that, and no
NOLINT is needed.

Last in the series of specifications that inheritance used to supply and
composition has to write out by hand.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018hxZxz8svM54c6ATEvXp5E
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-15 20:46:37 +02:00
Niels Lohmann 3bfe2b6da7 Stop the privacy plugin from downloading the repology.org badges (#5523)
repology.org refuses requests coming from GitHub Actions runners. The
Material privacy plugin logs the failed download as a warning, but then
raises FileNotFoundError when it reads back the cache entry it never
wrote, so ci_test_build_documentation aborts the whole documentation
build. develop and every open pull request are currently red because of
this.

The badges are fine for readers -- repology only rejects non-browser
clients -- so exclude them from the plugin's asset self-hosting and keep
them as external references. All other external assets (fonts, shields,
CDN files) are still downloaded and self-hosted as before.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-14 21:19:41 +02:00
Niels Lohmann c0b2878a44 Swap diagnostic positions in basic_json::swap() (#5493)
basic_json::swap() (and the friend swap() that forwards to it) only
exchanged m_data.m_type/m_data.m_value, leaving start_position/end_position
untouched under JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS. This is inconsistent with
copy-assignment's operator=(basic_json), which swaps positions as part of
its copy-and-swap implementation, so after swap(a, b) each value ended up
with the other value's content but its own original position.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-13 17:43:59 +02:00