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.

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

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* 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)

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* Amalgamate

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* 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

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* Link the BON8 functions from the other binary format pages

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

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* 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.

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* 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>
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Niels Lohmann
2026-09-27 16:56:21 +02:00
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parent f682cd2ef1
commit 1e101ecac1
58 changed files with 3950 additions and 53 deletions

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@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
const auto bjdata_1_size = json::to_bjdata(j).size();
const auto bjdata_2_size = json::to_bjdata(j, true).size();
const auto bjdata_3_size = json::to_bjdata(j, true, true).size();
const auto bon8_size = json::to_bon8(j).size();
const auto bson_size = json::to_bson(j).size();
const auto cbor_size = json::to_cbor(j).size();
const auto msgpack_size = json::to_msgpack(j).size();
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
CHECK(bjdata_1_size == 1112030);
CHECK(bjdata_2_size == 1224148);
CHECK(bjdata_3_size == 1224148);
CHECK(bon8_size == 1055792);
CHECK(bson_size == 1794522);
CHECK(cbor_size == 1055552);
CHECK(msgpack_size == 1056145);
@@ -47,6 +49,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_1_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(53.199));
CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_2_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(58.563));
CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_3_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(58.563));
CHECK((100.0 * double(bon8_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(50.509));
CHECK((100.0 * double(bson_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(85.849));
CHECK((100.0 * double(cbor_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(50.497));
CHECK((100.0 * double(msgpack_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(50.526));
@@ -64,6 +67,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
const auto bjdata_1_size = json::to_bjdata(j).size();
const auto bjdata_2_size = json::to_bjdata(j, true).size();
const auto bjdata_3_size = json::to_bjdata(j, true, true).size();
const auto bon8_size = json::to_bon8(j).size();
const auto bson_size = json::to_bson(j).size();
const auto cbor_size = json::to_cbor(j).size();
const auto msgpack_size = json::to_msgpack(j).size();
@@ -75,6 +79,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
CHECK(bjdata_1_size == 425342);
CHECK(bjdata_2_size == 429970);
CHECK(bjdata_3_size == 429970);
CHECK(bon8_size == 391396);
CHECK(bson_size == 444568);
CHECK(cbor_size == 402814);
CHECK(msgpack_size == 401510);
@@ -86,6 +91,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_1_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(91.097));
CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_2_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(92.089));
CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_3_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(92.089));
CHECK((100.0 * double(bon8_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(83.828));
CHECK((100.0 * double(bson_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(95.215));
CHECK((100.0 * double(cbor_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(86.273));
CHECK((100.0 * double(msgpack_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(85.993));
@@ -103,6 +109,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
const auto bjdata_1_size = json::to_bjdata(j).size();
const auto bjdata_2_size = json::to_bjdata(j, true).size();
const auto bjdata_3_size = json::to_bjdata(j, true, true).size();
const auto bon8_size = json::to_bon8(j).size();
const auto bson_size = json::to_bson(j).size();
const auto cbor_size = json::to_cbor(j).size();
const auto msgpack_size = json::to_msgpack(j).size();
@@ -114,6 +121,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
CHECK(bjdata_1_size == 390781);
CHECK(bjdata_2_size == 433557);
CHECK(bjdata_3_size == 432964);
CHECK(bon8_size == 317879);
CHECK(bson_size == 479430);
CHECK(cbor_size == 342373);
CHECK(msgpack_size == 342473);
@@ -125,6 +133,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_1_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(78.109));
CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_2_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(86.659));
CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_3_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(86.541));
CHECK((100.0 * double(bon8_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(63.538));
CHECK((100.0 * double(bson_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(95.828));
CHECK((100.0 * double(cbor_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(68.433));
CHECK((100.0 * double(msgpack_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(68.453));
@@ -142,6 +151,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
const auto bjdata_1_size = json::to_bjdata(j).size();
const auto bjdata_2_size = json::to_bjdata(j, true).size();
const auto bjdata_3_size = json::to_bjdata(j, true, true).size();
const auto bon8_size = json::to_bon8(j).size();
const auto bson_size = json::to_bson({{"", j}}).size(); // wrap array in object for BSON
const auto cbor_size = json::to_cbor(j).size();
const auto msgpack_size = json::to_msgpack(j).size();
@@ -153,6 +163,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
CHECK(bjdata_1_size == 50710965);
CHECK(bjdata_2_size == 51144830);
CHECK(bjdata_3_size == 51144830);
CHECK(bon8_size == 45942080);
CHECK(bson_size == 56008520);
CHECK(cbor_size == 46187320);
CHECK(msgpack_size == 46158575);
@@ -164,6 +175,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_1_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(96.576));
CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_2_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(97.402));
CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_3_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(97.402));
CHECK((100.0 * double(bon8_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(87.494));
CHECK((100.0 * double(bson_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(106.665));
CHECK((100.0 * double(cbor_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(87.961));
CHECK((100.0 * double(msgpack_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(87.906));
@@ -181,6 +193,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
const auto bjdata_1_size = json::to_bjdata(j).size();
const auto bjdata_2_size = json::to_bjdata(j, true).size();
const auto bjdata_3_size = json::to_bjdata(j, true, true).size();
const auto bon8_size = json::to_bon8(j).size();
// BSON cannot process the file as it contains code point U+0000
const auto cbor_size = json::to_cbor(j).size();
const auto msgpack_size = json::to_msgpack(j).size();
@@ -192,6 +205,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
CHECK(bjdata_1_size == 148695);
CHECK(bjdata_2_size == 150569);
CHECK(bjdata_3_size == 150569);
CHECK(bon8_size == 144477);
CHECK(cbor_size == 147095);
CHECK(msgpack_size == 147017);
CHECK(ubjson_1_size == 148695);
@@ -202,6 +216,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_1_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(88.153));
CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_2_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(89.264));
CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_3_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(89.264));
CHECK((100.0 * double(bon8_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(85.653));
CHECK((100.0 * double(cbor_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(87.205));
CHECK((100.0 * double(msgpack_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(87.158));
CHECK((100.0 * double(ubjson_1_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(88.153));