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Niels Lohmann a47170346a docs: new design for the documentation site (#5934)
* docs: new design for the documentation site

Apply the brand to the Material for MkDocs site: Inter and JetBrains Mono
served by the site (upright and real italic), brand colours, blue header band
with the syntax pattern, wordmark in the header, new home page (hero, cards,
animated feature tour), 404 page, polish for tabs, search, footer, focus
rings, tables and code blocks, and theme features (code copy, previous/next
footer, TOC follow, search suggestions).

Draw the number railroad diagram, the parser callback events and the iterator
illustrations as inline SVGs that follow the light and dark scheme. The
generator scripts are in docs/mkdocs/scripts/figures; the feature slideshow
(json-light.svg, json-dark.svg, replacing json.gif on the home page) is built
by docs/mkdocs/scripts/slideshow. Decision nodes in five flowcharts become
hexagons, which need far less room.

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* docs: add figures, table captions and a macro chooser

- Figures with numbered captions: SAX stepper, json_view layout and edit
  stepper, exception map, JSON pointer and patch walkers, QA pipeline,
  scaling and binary size charts, roadmap lanes, release timeline,
  integration decision tree and namespace builder
- Table captions (nj-table-caption) on 9 pages
- Compile times: modules and PCH charts, filesystem section, re-measured
  Figure 1, links between features/modules.md and compile_times.md
- Interactive macro chooser for features/arbitrary_types.md
- Link check: exclude URLs that answer the plugin with 400/401/419 or are
  dead (customers.md)

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* docs: macro chooser generates adl_serializer for non-default-constructible types

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* docs: cross-link concept pages and API pages in See also sections

Add See also links in both directions between the concept pages (features,
home, integration) and the API pages, write API links in code font, give every
entry a comment after a dash, and show the callback event figure on the parser
callbacks page.

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* docs: address review comments on the new design

- Home: add a "Latest release" button
- Sponsors: update the list and group it by tier
- Features: list all feature pages on the index page
- Releases: add highlights per release, link the 4.0 roadmap, add the first commit to the timeline
- Exceptions: prefix all example messages with the exception name
- API: no code font for format names in the See also links of the to_/from_ pages
- Merge Patch: show the document before, the patch, and the result
- Replace "--" with typographic dashes, mark external links with an icon, center Mermaid diagrams

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2026-10-27 07:41:42 +01:00
Niels Lohmann 4cdfa6d0f4 json_view: no save() and load() on big-endian targets (#5920)
The image format is little-endian only. Instead of throwing
type_error.320 at runtime, save_image(), load_image() and the members
save() and load() do not exist on a big-endian target, so a call fails to
compile, like set() on a read-only document. type_error.320 remains for
saving a discarded document.

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2026-10-26 20:13:30 +01:00
Niels Lohmann 731f1b5bfb json_view: view_mode enum instead of bool Editable, node_kind for node::kind (#5919)
* json_view: view_mode enum instead of bool Editable, node_kind for node::kind

basic_json_document and basic_json_view take a view_mode (read_only, the
default, or editable) instead of a bool: basic_json_document<json, true>
did not say what true means. The shortcut aliases are unchanged.

The kind of a node is a node_kind (the value_t values plus link, 10 as
before), which removes the static_cast<std::uint8_t>(value_t::...) of
every comparison. The node and image layouts are unchanged.

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* json_view: node_kind in the node writers, spell out read_only, comment fixes

The builder and the edit functions take and store a node_kind instead of
casting a value_t; the numbering assertions and the comments now speak of
node_kind, and the link kind notes that it follows value_t::discarded.
The read-only aliases name view_mode::read_only like the editable ones.
view_mode.md says the mode is a compile-time property of the type.

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* json_view: views of read-only documents convert to editable views

A read-only document has no edits, so a view of it reads correctly as a
view of an editable document before its first edit. The implicit
conversion lets a function taking a json_editable_view accept the views
of both modes. There is no conversion the other way: a read-only view of
an editable document would read wrong values after the next edit.

The mode comparisons in the cross-mode operator==/!= use an
is_other_mode trait, which astyle keeps compact.

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2026-10-26 20:13:30 +01:00
Niels Lohmann 4971200b54 Add images of json_documents: save() and load() (#5632)
* Add images of json_documents: save() and load()

An image is a document stored so that loading it needs no
parsing: save() writes the node index, the text and the decoded
strings; the static load() reads an image written by save().

load() takes a pointer and size, a borrowed vector, or an owned
rvalue vector; the nodes are copied so they are aligned and can
be edited, while the text and decoded strings stay in the image.

image_check controls how much load() trusts the input: full
checks structure, bounds, strings and numbers, the parser's own
guarantees; bounds checks structure and bounds only; none skips
all checks, for images from a trusted source.

Layout is little-endian only ("NJVI" header, nodes, text, decoded
strings), following the idea of zero-copy formats such as
FlatBuffers and YaFF; the check follows FlatBuffers' Verifier.

New errors: parse_error.116 for a malformed image or a failed
check, type_error.320 for a discarded document or a big-endian
target.

A dedicated fuzzer and 6,000 seeded corruptions, checked under
ASan/UBSan, found and fixed two gaps: unchecked reserved header
fields, and unbounded null/boolean offsets that could make
dump() throw std::length_error.

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* Fix MSVC errors in image test and add image_check doc anchor

Move the raw string literal out of the CHECK macro (MSVC preprocessor),
cast 64-bit header fields to std::size_t (C4244 on 32-bit), and give the
image_check section in load.md a real anchor for the mkdocs strict build.

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* Check each distinct string and float range once in the full image check

The full check scanned the contents of every string node and every float token over its own range, so many nodes pointing to one large range made load() quadratic. The structural walk now only collects the ranges; after it, each kind is sorted and checked once per distinct range. Ranges of one kind that overlap without being identical are rejected, as save() never writes them (nodes that share a value share the whole range). The cost is linear in the size of the image plus sorting the ranges.

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* Adapt the image tests to named documents and last-wins lookups

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* Test that the targets of links never reach an image

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* Test lookups in loaded images with duplicate and colliding keys

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* Release the list of large objects once load() has built the indexes

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* Test that invalid UTF-8 of a loaded image is not copied into an editable document

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* Document that editable documents refuse invalid UTF-8 copied from a loaded image

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* Expect first-wins lookups in the image tests

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* Avoid useless casts of header fields in the image tests

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* Fix clang-tidy 22 findings in unit-json_view_image.cpp and image.hpp

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* Fix MSVC C4244 and C2017 in the image test

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* Fix the indentation of a loop in the image test

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* Make json_view.hpp pass include-what-you-use

ci_single_binaries runs IWYU with --error on every header. For json_view.hpp
it suggested adding <array> (std::array is used), the headers that json.hpp
already provides (abi_config, abi_macros, input_adapters, json_pointer,
cpp_future, string_concat, value_t, json_fwd), and <version> for
std::nullptr_t, and removing <cstddef>.

- include <array>
- keep <cstddef> (nullptr_t, size_t; IWYU attributes them to <version> and <cstring>)
- tell IWYU not to suggest the headers that json.hpp provides: the amalgamated
  json_view.hpp only includes json.hpp, so including them here would duplicate
  their definitions
- drop edit_storage.hpp, which edit.hpp includes

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* Silence a clang-tidy C++17 finding in the image test

bugprone-suspicious-stringview-data-usage flags data() of the source view
under C++17, although the length is passed and checked by the REQUIRE
before it.

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* Build the image link test without exceptions

load_result() exists only with exceptions; with JSON_NOEXCEPTION the test
loads the image with the check directly (a failed check aborts).

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* Regenerate the amalgamated headers

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* Follow the renames from the review of the view builder

The review of #5620 renamed document_data's tape/tape_size/tape_cap to
nodes/node_count/node_capacity and made the decode arena a
std::vector<char>; adapt the code of this change to it.

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* Rename the emit lambda in the image writer for Qt compatibility

Qt defines emit as an empty macro, so a Qt header included before
json_view.hpp broke the lambda's declaration (see #5865). The slots
variables in the image tests are renamed as well.

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* Address the review of json_document images

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* Regenerate the amalgamated headers

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2026-10-21 10:21:29 +02:00