Niels Lohmann af23f07f8c Fix parse(container, function) for plain functions as callback ...

Passing a plain function or function pointer as parser callback, as in json::parse(std::string("[1,2]"), cb), stopped compiling in C++11/14/17. The iterator+sentinel overloads added for C++20 ranges are constrained by can_compare_ne, i.e. whether `first != last` is well-formed. The callback's parameter types make basic_json an associated class, so ADL finds the friend operator!=(const_reference, ScalarType): the container converts to basic_json and the function pointer is a scalar. The sentinel overload was thereby selected and failed hard in its body.

can_compare_ne now excludes function pointers and functions as sentinel type, since a callback is never a sentinel. This shared constraint guards parse, accept, sax_parse and all from_* overloads. Checking IteratorType via std::iterator_traits was avoided on purpose: it would instantiate iterator_traits for every two-argument call, which is a hard error on standard libraries with a non-SFINAE-friendly iterator_traits.

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

2026-11-11 09:24:05 +01:00

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Fix parse(container, function) for plain functions as callback

2026-11-11 09:24:05 +01:00