Closes#3106. set(JSON_Diagnostics ON) before find_package() has no
effect on a package built and installed elsewhere (Homebrew, vcpkg, a
system package, etc.) -- the compile definition is baked into the
exported nlohmann_jsonTargets.cmake at install time and the generated
config script never re-reads that variable. Verified empirically
against the real Homebrew-installed 3.12.0 package: the exported
target carries a fixed $<$<BOOL:OFF>:JSON_DIAGNOSTICS=1>, and the
suggested set(JSON_Diagnostics ON) snippet produces no change in
exception output.
Documents the actual working fix (overriding the imported target's
INTERFACE_COMPILE_DEFINITIONS property after find_package()) and the
multi-target "JSON_DIAGNOSTICS redefined" pitfall reported earlier in
the issue thread.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* 📝 Fix documentation gaps found in a full GitHub Discussions review
Reviewed all 1008 GitHub Discussions (2020-2026) for recurring questions
that better or more visible documentation would have avoided. Adds/expands
documentation for ~26 distinct gaps, including:
- New "Debugging" page collecting natvis, GDB pretty printer, LLDB status,
and JSON_DIAGNOSTICS pointers (previously scattered/undiscoverable)
- Thread-safety and schema-validation FAQ entries
- StringType's char-based requirement (no wstring/u16string/u32string)
- Brace-initialization-yields-arrays warning directly on the constructor
reference page (previously only in the FAQ, missed by users reading
the constructor docs)
- std::any exclusion from get<T>(), with a manual-dispatch example
- Non-string-keyed std::map serializing as an array of pairs
- ordered_json compatibility with NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_* macros
(already worked, was undocumented)
- std::array truncation on size-mismatched conversion (no exception)
- static_cast vs. get<std::optional<T>>() divergence
- Recipe for omitting a std::optional field instead of emitting null
- No built-in nesting-depth limit during parsing + a callback-based
workaround recipe
- Recipe for streaming a large homogeneous array via parser callbacks
- operator>> stream-position semantics for concatenated JSON values
- JSON Pointer array-vs-object creation rule for non-existing paths
- CMake target name (nlohmann_json_modules) needed to link C++20 modules
- ESP-IDF/PlatformIO: no official package, link to a community fork
- get(key, default) as the Python dict.get() equivalent
- reserve() recipe for pre-allocating array capacity
- JSONC as an alias for the existing ignore_comments/ignore_trailing_commas
combination (distinct from the unsupported JSON5)
- items() dereferenced-element type: decltype() idiom + detail-namespace
stability caveat
- Various macro/type-conversion limitations (MSGPACK_DEFINE_ARRAY
equivalent, char-array round-tripping, ADL serializer macro gap)
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* 🎨 fix format
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* Add implementation to retrieve start and end positions of json during parse
* Add more unit tests and add start/stop parsing for arrays
* Add raw value for all types
* Add more tests and fix compiler warning
* Amalgamate
* Fix CLang GCC warnings
* Fix error in build
* Style using astyle 3.1
* Fix whitespace changes
* revert
* more whitespace reverts
* Address PR comments
* Fix failing issues
* More whitespace reverts
* Address remaining PR comments
* Address comments
* Switch to using custom base class instead of default basic_json
* Adding a basic using for a json using the new base class. Also address PR comments and fix CI failures
* Address decltype comments
* Diagnostic positions macro (#4)
Co-authored-by: Sush Shringarputale <sushring@linux.microsoft.com>
* Fix missed include deletion
* Add docs and address other PR comments (#5)
* Add docs and address other PR comments
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Co-authored-by: Sush Shringarputale <sushring@linux.microsoft.com>
* Address new PR comments and fix CI tests for documentation
* Update documentation based on feedback (#6)
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Co-authored-by: Sush Shringarputale <sushring@linux.microsoft.com>
* Address std::size_t and other comments
* Fix new CI issues
* Fix lcov
* Improve lcov case with update to handle_diagnostic_positions call for discarded values
* Fix indentation of LCOV_EXCL_STOP comments
* fix amalgamation astyle issue
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Co-authored-by: Sush Shringarputale <sushring@linux.microsoft.com>
* Move UDLs into nlohmann::literals::json_literals namespace
* Add 'using namespace' to unit tests
* Add 'using namespace' to examples
* Add 'using namespace' to README
* Move UDL mkdocs pages out of basic_json/
* Update documentation
* Update docset index
* Add JSON_GlobalUDLs CMake option
* Add unit test
* Build examples without global UDLs
* Add CI target
