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examples/merge_diff.cpp

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+#include <iostream>
+#include <iomanip>
+#include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
+
+using json = nlohmann::json;
+using namespace nlohmann::literals;
+
+int main()
+{
+    // the source document
+    json source = R"(
+        {
+            "title": "Goodbye!",
+            "author": {
+                "givenName": "John",
+                "familyName": "Doe"
+            },
+            "tags": [
+                "example",
+                "sample"
+            ],
+            "content": "This will be unchanged"
+        }
+    )"_json;
+
+    // the target document
+    json target = R"(
+        {
+            "title": "Hello!",
+            "author": {
+                "givenName": "John"
+            },
+            "tags": [
+                "example"
+            ],
+            "content": "This will be unchanged",
+            "phoneNumber": "+01-123-456-7890"
+        }
+    )"_json;
+
+    // create the patch
+    json patch = json::merge_diff(source, target);
+
+    // roundtrip
+    json patched_source = source;
+    patched_source.merge_patch(patch);
+
+    // output patch and roundtrip result
+    std::cout << std::setw(4) << patch << "\n\n"
+              << std::setw(4) << patched_source << std::endl;
+}