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Niels Lohmann 9856da2561 Document values and JSON pointers of json_view
- API pages for get, get_to, get_string, number_token, and value of
  basic_json_view; JSON pointer overloads of operator[], at, and
  contains; links both ways with the basic_json pages
- the feature page describes which conversions copy nothing
- the examples show when the view helps: strings without copies, numbers
  exactly as written, and paths into a large text

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-29 14:02:53 +02:00

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#include <iostream>
#include <nlohmann/json_view.hpp>
using json_document = nlohmann::json_document;
using json_view = nlohmann::json_view;
int main()
{
// a price and an order id from an incoming order -- both need to be
// reproduced exactly, e.g. for an invoice or an audit log
json_document doc = json_document::parse(R"(
{"price": 19.90, "order_id": 1234567890123456789012345, "quantity": 3}
)");
const json_view order = doc.root();
// number_token() returns the number exactly as written in the source
std::cout << order["price"].number_token() << '\n';
std::cout << order["order_id"].number_token() << '\n';
// get<double>() converts it instead -- the exact source text is gone:
// "19.90" becomes the double closest to 19.9, printed without the
// trailing zero, and the 25-digit order id -- far beyond any 64-bit
// integer -- can only be approximated as a double
std::cout << order["price"].get<double>() << '\n';
std::cout << order.materialize()["order_id"].dump() << '\n';
// an ordinary quantity has nothing to lose either way
std::cout << order["quantity"].number_token() << " == " << order["quantity"].get<int>() << '\n';
}