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Niels Lohmann
4d46bce4e1 Fix CI on develop (#5750)
* Fix CI configuration broken by recent merges and tool updates

- gcc_flags.cmake: drop -Wexperimental-fmv-target, which GCC 16 accepts
  only on aarch64; amd64 rejects it, so every GCC job failed while
  checking the compiler.
- ci_get_cmake: add VERBATIM so the checksum pipeline is passed to the
  shell intact (the unescaped `$'` broke the generated Makefile and
  build.ninja, failing ci_cmake_flags and ci_module_cpp20); match the
  SHA-256 entry case-insensitively, as CMake 3.5.0 lists the archive as
  "Linux-x86_64"; and unpack with --strip-components, as that archive's
  top-level directory is spelled "Linux" too.
- ci_single_binaries: compile json.hpp's TU without IWYU's --error, as
  the comment above the gate already intends.
- tests: restore -Wno-deprecated-declarations for all non-MSVC compilers
  (#5737 kept it for GCC only), as several tests call deprecated
  functions on purpose; include thirdparty/fifo_map as SYSTEM.
- .clang-tidy: set misc-use-internal-linkage.AnalyzeTypes to false;
  clang-tidy 22.1 extended the check to classes and enums and flagged
  100 test helper types.

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

* Fix library warnings and a JSON_DIAGNOSTICS parent bug

- binary_reader: pass integers to sax->number_integer() through
  conditional_static_cast<number_integer_t>, making the existing
  narrowing for a narrow number_integer_t explicit (MSVC C4244 and GCC
  -Wconversion/-Warith-conversion with the int16_t test from #5694);
  mark two Infer DEAD_STORE false positives with @infer-ignore.
- to_json: set the parents of an array built from a C++20 range view
  after all elements are in place; a reallocating push_back moved the
  earlier elements and left their parent pointers stale, failing the
  JSON_DIAGNOSTICS invariant assertion.
- json.hpp: suppress MSVC C4127 for the new is_ordered_map check in
  diff(), like the three existing ones; spell out std::formatter::parse's
  return and iterator types for clang-tidy 22.1.
- number_parse: make the Eisel-Lemire digit counter unsigned
  (GCC -Wstrict-overflow).
- string_utils: take encode_utf8's callable by const reference
  (cppcoreguidelines-missing-std-forward) and drop a \u from its doc
  comment (-Wdocumentation-unknown-command).
- ordered_map: include <memory> for std::allocator (cpplint).

Ran make amalgamate.

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

* Fix tests failing in CI on develop

- unit-allocator: skip the #5640 test under MSVC STL iterator debugging,
  where containers allocate a debug proxy in noexcept move constructors
  and a failing allocation terminates; move a decrement out of an if
  condition (bugprone-inc-dec-in-conditions).
- unit-conversions: expect the "(/0)" path with JSON_DIAGNOSTICS;
  compare strict enums via get<>() rather than through the noexcept
  operator==(ScalarType, json), which bugprone-exception-escape flags.
- unit-alt-string: suppress -Wexit-time-destructors for the strict enum
  macro and misc-use-internal-linkage for its enum.
- unit-bjdata: call the static lookup functions through the type and
  pass unsigned char (-Wsign-conversion on amd64).
- Mark Infer false positives with @infer-ignore in unit-diagnostics,
  unit-pointer_access, unit-udt, and unit-conversions.
- Smaller clang-tidy 22.1 findings in unit-class_parser,
  unit-constructor2, unit-custom-base-class, unit-locale-cpp, and
  unit-noexcept.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-02 11:23:55 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
e5a89d671f Fix lint debt: enum-macro NOLINTs, doctest as SYSTEM, no-op analyzer (#5737)
* Drop stale LCOV_EXCL_LINE from the json_pointer out_of_range.410 throw

The comment said the size_type overflow check in array_index() is only
triggered on special platforms like 32-bit, and the throw was excluded
from coverage. On 64-bit platforms the check is true for SIZE_MAX
itself, and unit-json_pointer.cpp has asserted that case four times
since #5395, so the line is executed in the coverage job. Reword the
comment and remove the exclusion marker so the coverage report notices
if the tests stop reaching it.

Part of #5725

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

* Name all three C-array check aliases in the enum-macro NOLINTs

NLOHMANN_JSON_SERIALIZE_ENUM(_STRICT) suppressed the c-array warning
under modernize-avoid-c-arrays only, but clang-tidy emits the same
diagnostic under the aliases cppcoreguidelines-avoid-c-arrays and
hicpp-avoid-c-arrays too. Any user running those checks got a false
positive at every macro expansion, and our own tests needed a local
NOLINT at each call site to work around it.

Name all three aliases in the four macro comments instead, and drop
the now-redundant c-array names from the five test call-site NOLINTs.
Comment-only change; behavior, the public API, and the ABI do not
change. Ran make amalgamate.

Part of #5725

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

* Include doctest as a SYSTEM directory instead of disabling warnings for all tests

test_main added -Wno-deprecated and -Wno-float-equal as PUBLIC compile
options for every non-MSVC compiler, so they were applied to every
translation unit, library headers included, and silenced the CI
warnings meant to check the library's own -Wfloat-equal pragmas. The
only code that actually needed the suppression was the vendored
doctest.h, which was included as a normal (non-SYSTEM) directory.

Include thirdparty/doctest as SYSTEM for test_main, matching what
tests/abi/CMakeLists.txt already does, and drop the two suppressions
from both targets. Verified locally that unit-comparison,
unit-conversions and unit-constructor1 compile clean with
-Werror -Weverything and doctest as -isystem, and that CMake still
configures with JSON_BuildTests=ON.

Part of #5725

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

* Remove the no-op ci_clang_analyze target

ci_clang_analyze configured the build with the real compiler and only
then wrapped ninja with scan-build. scan-build intercepts compiles by
overriding CC/CXX, but build.ninja already had the compiler path baked
in from the configure step, so every run bypassed the analyzer: CI
logs show "No bugs found" after a normal build, never an analysis.
The job also used Debian's frozen clang-tools-14 rather than the
image's own clang, and CLANG_ANALYZER_CHECKS still named three
valist.* checkers that current clang merged into security.VAList.

ci_clang_tidy already runs every clang-analyzer-* check (via
.clang-tidy's "Checks: '*'") with warnings as errors, so nothing is
lost by removing the dead job. Delete ci_clang_analyze,
CLANG_ANALYZER_CHECKS and the SCAN_BUILD_TOOL lookup from
cmake/ci.cmake, drop it from the ubuntu.yml ci_static_analysis_clang
matrix, and drop the now-unused clang-tools apt package (iwyu stays
for ci_single_binaries). Reword quality_assurance.md and
assurance_case.md, which described the dead job as a working control,
to say the Clang Static Analyzer checks run through clang-tidy.

Verified that `cmake -DJSON_CI=ON` still configures cleanly and that
ci_clang_analyze no longer appears in the generated build or in any
CMake/workflow file.

Part of #5725

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

* Re-enable portability-template-virtual-member-function; remove redundant forwards

.clang-tidy disabled three checks "to get the CI going" (#4489,
2024-11-13): portability-template-virtual-member-function,
bugprone-use-after-move and its alias hicpp-invalid-access-moved.

portability-template-virtual-member-function only flagged
output_stream_adapter::write_character/write_characters; annotate
both with NOLINT and re-enable the check.

bugprone-use-after-move flagged several double forwards that have no
effect at runtime:
- from_json.hpp calls std::forward<BasicJsonType>(j).at(Idx) inside
  pack expansions; at() has no ref-qualified overloads and always
  returns an lvalue reference, so the forward is a no-op. Replace with
  plain j.at(Idx) in all four places.
- the move constructor forwards the whole object to its base class
  and then reads other's members. That is item 9 of #5724 (together
  with its cppcheck suppressions) and is left to that change.
- input_adapters.hpp forwards the container twice on purpose, so the
  begin/end iterator types match adapter_type; annotate with NOLINT
  and a comment instead of changing behavior.

The check still flags the move constructor (see above) and two sites
in at(KeyType&&) (both overloads, json.hpp, in the throw's
string_t(std::forward<KeyType>(key)) after
find(std::forward<KeyType>(key))). Open PR #5689 rewrites that hunk,
so bugprone-use-after-move (and hicpp-invalid-access-moved)
stay disabled for now, with a comment explaining why; re-enable them
once #5689 and the #5724 move-constructor change have landed.

Also resolve the portability-avoid-pragma-once TODO: single_include
never has #pragma once (amalgamate.py strips it) and every supported
compiler accepts it in include/, so keep it disabled with an
explanatory comment instead of a TODO. Fix the stale "json.hpp,
around line 1265" comment in unit-class_parser.cpp, which now points
at the move constructor's actual line.

Behavior, the public API and the ABI do not change. Verified with
clang-tidy 22.1.8 that portability-template-virtual-member-function
now reports nothing, that bugprone-use-after-move/
hicpp-invalid-access-moved report only the known at(KeyType&&) and
move-constructor sites, and that unit-custom-base-class, unit-constructor1,
unit-conversions, unit-element_access2, unit-class_parser and
unit-diagnostic-positions (JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS=1) compile
under ASan/UBSan and pass with the same assertion counts as before.
Ran make amalgamate.

Part of #5725

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

* Fix stale and malformed NOLINT comments

json_sax.hpp named "-warnings-as-errors" in the NOLINT list on the two
JSON_ASSERT(false) lines; that is the suffix clang-tidy appends to a
diagnostic tag under WarningsAsErrors, not a check name, and every
other JSON_ASSERT(false) omits it.

unit-capacity.cpp carried 30 "// NOLINT(misc-const-correctness)"
comments on "json j = ...;" declarations that are all used with
non-const members afterwards, so the check has nothing to report
there.

unit-constructor2.cpp used a blanket "// NOLINT: access after move is
OK here" on a use-after-move that hides every check on the line;
naming bugprone-use-after-move and hicpp-invalid-access-moved keeps
the intent once those checks are re-enabled (#5724).

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

#5725 item 10

* Remove stale .clang-tidy entries

-google-runtime-references disabled a check that neither clang-tidy
22.1.8 nor 23.1.2 lists under --list-checks -checks='*'; it was
removed upstream. The commented-out HeaderFilterRegex line has been
unused since the active HeaderFilterRegex was introduced in #2561
(2021).

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

#5725 item 11

* Remove the GCC C++20 -Wignored-attributes pragma in json.hpp

The pragma (added in #5164) claimed to work around the C++ modules
redefinition errors of #5103, but #5103 is about hard errors (e.g.
"redefinition of std::__is_constant_evaluated()", conflicting
std::integral_constant) that ignoring a warning cannot suppress; they
are traced to GCC PR 124430 and reproduce with <map> or <string>
instead of json.hpp too. A GCC 16.2 -std=gnu++20 -fmodules build
following #5103's repro steps still fails with the pragma in place,
and a build of all test TUs with GCC_CXXFLAGS (which enable
-Wignored-attributes) and the pragma removed produces no such
warning. The block only hid a warning class from GCC C++20 users
while suggesting #5103 was handled.

Overlaps #5610, whose hunks touch the closing half of this pragma to
insert the json_literals.hpp include.

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

#5725 item 9

* Fix stale doxygen comments hidden by the -Wdocumentation pragma

macro_scope.hpp ignores -Wdocumentation and -Wdocumentation-unknown-command
for the whole library, which also hides genuine documentation mistakes:

- detail::unescape() documented "@return unescaped string" but returns
  void and unescapes its argument in place; reworded to
  "@param[in,out] s string to unescape in place" and dropped the
  bogus @return.
- basic_json::get()'s copy-conversion overload wrote "converted to
  @tparam ValueType" inside @return, which Doxygen and Clang parse as
  a second, malformed @tparam; changed to "@a ValueType", matching the
  two other get() overloads a few lines above that already use it.

This narrows the gap the -Wdocumentation pragma needs to cover; fully
replacing the Doxygen-only commands it also hides (item 2c) is left
for after #5267.

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

#5725 item 2

* Fix -Wextra-semi-stmt at its actual source, not assert()

clang_flags.cmake blamed the global -Wno-extra-semi-stmt on assert(),
but assert() expands to an expression under glibc and libc++ and does
not trigger this warning. unit-assert_macro.cpp overrides JSON_ASSERT
with "{if (!(x)) ++assert_counter; }", a bare block followed by a
semicolon at every JSON_ASSERT(...) call site in the library; that
was the actual source of 151 of the 208 -Wextra-semi-stmt sites found
in a Clang 22 -Weverything sweep of the test suite with the flag
removed. Switched to the standard do/while(false) macro idiom, which
does not expand to a statement-plus-semicolon, and corrected the
comment to name the remaining source instead: vendored Doctest's
CAPTURE(x) shim, which already ends in a semicolon.

Verified with clang++ -Wextra-semi-stmt (plus the file's other CI
ignores) that unit-assert_macro.cpp now compiles without any
-Wextra-semi-stmt diagnostic.

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

#5725 item 8 (step 1 of 2; step 2 covers the CAPTURE() call sites)

* Drop the redundant semicolon from CAPTURE() call sites; remove -Wno-extra-semi-stmt

doctest_compatibility.h defines CAPTURE(x) as DOCTEST_CAPTURE(x); (with
a trailing semicolon baked into the macro), specifically so call sites
do not need to add one themselves; most of the ~267 call sites already
follow that convention. The remaining 64 call sites across 20 files
wrote "CAPTURE(x);" anyway, turning into a statement plus an empty
statement and triggering -Wextra-semi-stmt. Dropped the redundant
semicolon at each of those sites.

With item 6 having already made vendored Doctest a SYSTEM include, and
this the last known source of -Wextra-semi-stmt findings, removed the
flag from clang_flags.cmake entirely.

Verified with clang++ -Wextra-semi-stmt (plus the file's other CI
ignores) that all 20 touched files, plus a file with no CAPTURE() use
(unit-json_pointer.cpp), compile without any -Wextra-semi-stmt
diagnostic.

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

#5725 item 8 (step 2 of 2)

* Switch ci_static_analysis_clang off the frozen LLVM 22 dev image

ubuntu.yml pinned the clang-tidy/clang-tidy-sanitizer/single-binaries
job to silkeh/clang:dev, a tag last pushed 2026-02-18 that reports
"clang version 22.0.0 (...+20251015...)", a pre-release snapshot from
before the LLVM 22 release; the maintainer now updates dev-unstable,
22, and latest instead. Switched to silkeh/clang:22, matching the
other clang jobs on :latest.

Verified with clang-tidy 22.1.8 (the image's actual version) against
this repository's .clang-tidy and library headers what the release
image newly reports compared to :dev:

- readability-redundant-typename fires at ~250 sites across the
  _cpp20-relevant conversion/to_chars headers; the library targets
  C++11 and keeps the typenames, so the check is disabled in
  .clang-tidy, matching how the file already handles checks that
  don't fit a C++11 codebase.
- misc-anonymous-namespace-in-header fires on the two anonymous
  namespaces in from_json.hpp and to_json.hpp; added the alias to
  their existing NOLINT (cert-dcl59-cpp, fuchsia-header-anon-namespaces,
  google-build-namespaces).
- bugprone-std-namespace-modification fires on every addition to
  namespace std: the std::hash, std::formatter and std::swap
  overloads in json.hpp, and the std::tuple_size/std::tuple_element
  specializations in iteration_proxy.hpp (this last file is not named
  in #5725's item 5, found by actually running clang-tidy 22.1.8
  against the current tree). All six are legal, deliberate additions
  to namespace std (explicit/partial specializations of std types, or
  the pre-C++20 std::swap overload); annotated each with the check
  name next to its existing cert-dcl58-cpp NOLINT.
- modernize-avoid-c-style-cast reported nothing new.

Also added clang++-22/21, clang-tidy-22/21, g++-16 and gcov-16 to the
find_program search lists in ci.cmake so a local "maximal warnings"
configure prefers the current toolchain version over an older one on
PATH.

#5725 item 5

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

* Regenerate cmake/gcc_flags.cmake for GCC 16.2.0

GCC_CXXFLAGS was generated for GCC 15.1.0, but ci_test_gcc and
ci_test_gcc_cxx{11..26} now run in gcc:latest, currently GCC 16.2.0,
so the "maximal warnings" job was missing warnings introduced since
15.1.0 while carrying entries GCC 16 treats as duplicates or no-ops.

Regenerated with https://github.com/nlohmann/gcc_flags (patched
locally to not crash on an option whose "-x c++ <opt> -" probe fails
before it reads stdin, e.g. -Wabi=; the tool otherwise raises
BrokenPipeError instead of recording the option as an error) run
against g++ 16.2.0 in the official gcc:16 Docker image, keeping the
documented -Wno-* exclusions and the same alphabetical placement
scheme as before.

Also added three GCC 16 warnings the generator cannot discover on its
own because it only probes value ranges/lists it finds in the -Q
option name itself, not in the enum choices --help=warnings documents
separately:

- -Wbidi-chars=any, -Wleading-whitespace=spaces: manually verified
  these compile cleanly with g++ 16.2.0.
- -Wstrict-flex-arrays: deliberately NOT added, unlike the other two.
  Without -fstrict-flex-arrays (which the library does not enable, as
  it would change codegen for flexible array members), GCC prints
  "'-Wstrict-flex-arrays' is ignored when '-fstrict-flex-arrays' is
  not present" on every translation unit, and under our -Werror that
  note itself aborts the build. This differs from the harmless
  no-op warnings already kept in the file (-Whsa, -Wsynth,
  -Wunreachable-code, -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations), which emit
  nothing; #5725 item 7 named -Wstrict-flex-arrays as one of the
  flags GCC 16 adds, but did not anticipate this failure mode.

Verified: compiled the library header and a representative set of
test translation units (including ones touched by items 1, 3, 8, 9,
10 of this issue) with the regenerated GCC_CXXFLAGS plus -Werror
under g++ 16.2.0 at -std=c++11 through -std=c++26, with zero warnings;
ran the full local test suite (129/129 passing, unrelated to this
compiler) as a regression check. CI must still confirm the actual
ci_test_gcc / ci_test_standards_gcc targets end to end, since this was
verified with direct g++ invocations rather than through the CMake/
CXXFLAGS environment-variable plumbing in ci.cmake.

#5725 item 7

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

* Avoid std::basic_string<CharType> for non-character output_adapter CharType

output_adapter<CharType, StringType> defaulted StringType to
std::basic_string<CharType>, and (with JSON_NO_IO undefined) always
declared a std::basic_ostream<CharType>&-taking constructor. For
CharType with no non-deprecated std::char_traits specialization (only
std::uint8_t is ever used this way, by the binary writers), simply
naming either type - as an unused default template argument, or as an
unused, never-called constructor's parameter type - instantiates
std::char_traits<CharType> merely to name it, which some standard
libraries mark deprecated: with the library-wide -Wdocumentation
pragma (item 2's other half, left for a later commit) temporarily
removed, an Apple clang 21 / libc++ TU calling json::to_cbor(j, vec)
with std::vector<std::uint8_t>& got one -Wdeprecated-declarations
warning per binary writer at the old output_adapters.hpp:193.

Replaced the eager std::basic_string<CharType> / std::basic_ostream
<CharType> defaults with a bool-tagged partial specialization (not
std::conditional, which requires naming both branches' types up
front regardless of which is selected, reproducing the same warning)
that only ever names std::basic_string<CharType> / std::basic_ostream
<CharType> when CharType is actually one of char, wchar_t, char16_t,
char32_t, or (with __cpp_lib_char8_t) char8_t. For any other
CharType, output_adapter's StringType and ostream-constructor
parameter fall back to two distinct empty placeholder types, kept
distinct so the two constructor overloads do not collide into a
single redeclaration.

Public API / behavior: passing a std::basic_string<std::uint8_t>& or
std::basic_ostream<std::uint8_t>& directly to a binary writer's
output_adapter now fails to compile instead of compiling with a
deprecation warning; this was neither documented nor tested. All
documented uses (std::vector<CharType>, std::basic_ostream<CharType>
and StringType for character CharType) are unaffected.

Verified with Apple clang 21 / libc++, with the two -Wdocumentation*
"ignored" pragma lines in macro_scope.hpp temporarily removed and
-std=c++11/c++20 plus the project's -Weverything flag set: calling
to_cbor/to_msgpack/to_ubjson/to_bjdata/to_bson/to_bon8 on a
std::vector<std::uint8_t> now produces no char_traits<unsigned char>
(or any other) deprecation warning, while the char-based string- and
ostream-adapter paths, and a to_cbor/from_cbor round trip, still
compile and run correctly; also verified with GCC 16.2.0. Ran the
full local test suite, including the binary-format unit tests
(unit-cbor, unit-msgpack, unit-ubjson, unit-bjdata, unit-bson,
unit-bon8, unit-binary_writer_sinks, unit-binary_formats,
unit-custom-binary-type): 129/129 passing.

#5725 item 2 (step a)

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

* Remove the library-wide -Wdocumentation pragma; fix what it hid

macro_scope.hpp / macro_unscope.hpp pushed and popped a Clang
diagnostic region over the entire library that ignored -Wdocumentation
and -Wdocumentation-unknown-command. Removed both pragmas and fixed
every finding a full -Wdocumentation (which implies
-Wdocumentation-unknown-command and -Wdocumentation-deprecated-sync)
build reports, so the library now compiles clean under Clang's
documentation checks without a blanket suppression. Overlaps #5267,
which is still open and edits a nearby doc block (json.hpp's
get()/get_impl() @return, already fixed in the item 2 step (b) commit
of this branch); this commit does not touch that block again.

Unknown Doxygen alias commands (Doxyfile removed in #3071, so these
were never rendered by anything) rewritten as plain prose, keeping the
same information:
- @requirement REQ-JSON-01 / REQ-JSON-02 (iter_impl.hpp,
  json_reverse_iterator.hpp): now "This class satisfies the following
  concept requirements (REQ-JSON-0N):".
- @liveexample{prose,example-id} (three sites in json.hpp): kept the
  prose, dropped the command wrapper and the trailing example-id
  (docs/mkdocs/docs/examples/*.cpp still exist and are used directly
  by the rendered docs, not through this in-header alias) and
  unescaped the "\," commas that were only needed for the old alias's
  comma-separated argument syntax.
- @complexity X (json.hpp x4, json_pointer.hpp x2, serializer.hpp x1):
  now "Complexity: X".

Backslash sequences Clang's comment lexer tried to parse as commands,
escaped to render as literal backslashes:
- lexer.hpp get_codepoint(): two `\u` occurrences.
- binary_reader.hpp get_bson_cstr() / get_bson_cstr_bulk(): two
  `\x00` occurrences.
- serializer.hpp: three `\uXXXX` occurrences (constructor @param,
  append_codepoint_to_string_buffer() @brief, and the ensure_ascii
  member comment).

One finding remained after all of the above: Clang reports
"declaration is marked with '@deprecated' command but does not have a
deprecation attribute" on the deprecated sax_parse(span_input_adapter&&, ...)
overload, even though JSON_HEDLEY_DEPRECATED_FOR does expand to
__attribute__((deprecated(...))) for Clang. Several isolated
reproductions of this exact declaration shape - doc comment,
template<>, two stacked __attribute__ macros, an overload set sharing
the name - did not reproduce the warning, so this looks like a
Clang comment/declaration-association quirk specific to this overload
inside the much larger basic_json class template, not an actual
documentation defect. Rather than keep the pragma library-wide for one
Clang false positive, added a tightly scoped
-Wdocumentation-deprecated-sync push/pop around just that overload.

Verified with Apple clang 21 and the project's actual -Weverything
flag set (cmake/clang_flags.cmake) on the full header at -std=c++11
and -std=c++20: zero -Wdocumentation* diagnostics. Also compiled
clean with GCC 16.2.0 (the pragmas are already __clang__-gated, so
this only confirms no unrelated breakage). Ran make check-amalgamation
and the full local test suite: 129/129 passing.

#5725 item 2 (step c)

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

* Take the JSON value by const reference in the array and tuple from_json paths

Review feedback on #5737 (gregmarr): once the no-op std::forward calls
are gone, the forwarding references have no purpose. from_json_fn
passes the value as const BasicJsonType&, so these functions were only
ever instantiated with a const lvalue anyway.

The std::array, std::pair and std::tuple overloads of from_json and
their helpers now take const BasicJsonType& and pass j on unchanged.
Because the deduced BasicJsonType is now the plain type, tuple_type and
the static_assert name const BasicJsonType& explicitly, so the
reference checks are unchanged: get<std::tuple<const std::string&>>()
still works, and get<std::tuple<std::string&>>() still fails the same
static_assert. from_json_tuple_get_impl keeps its forwarding reference,
since tuple_type calls it through std::declval.

Behavior, the public API and the ABI do not change. unit-conversions,
unit-constructor1, unit-udt, unit-udt_macro, unit-regression1/2/3,
unit-deserialization, unit-noexcept, unit-items, unit-allocator,
unit-custom-object-type, unit-ordered_json2 and
unit-brace-init-copy-semantics pass at C++11, C++17 and C++20 with
unchanged assertion counts. Ran make amalgamate.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-01 07:37:47 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
7fd6895788 Hide a discarded container's content from the parser callback (#5706)
When a parser callback rejects an object's or array's start event,
json_sax_dom_callback_parser kept calling it for everything inside
that container anyway: nested keys, values, and the start/end events
of containers below it. This contradicts parser_callback_t's own
documentation, which promises that discarding a container at its
start event also hides its content from the callback.

The same code path also kept a full copy of every key inside such a
discarded container in key_stack until the whole parse finished,
because the early return for values that are not stored skipped the
matching pop. Filtering out a large subtree is the main reason to use
a callback, so this made peak memory during the parse scale with the
size of the very subtree the callback was trying to skip.

Fix start_object(), start_array(), and key() so that a container
whose own start event was discarded, or that is nested inside one, is
never handed to the callback, and no longer pushes onto the key
stacks. A container whose start event was accepted but whose key was
rejected still gets its content reported, as documented ("the
callback is still called for the associated value, but its return
value has no further effect"); only its own bookkeeping is skipped
since it will not be stored.

Fixes #5643.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-30 20:07:48 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
4bb1b14b06 Trim the compiler-appended NUL from wide/UTF string literals too (#5702)
With JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING defined to 1, parsing a wide, UTF-16,
UTF-32, or (C++20) UTF-8 string literal (e.g. json::parse(L"[1]"))
failed with parse_error.101 at the terminating NUL of the literal,
and accept() returned false. The array overload of input_adapter()
only dropped the compiler-added trailing '\0' for arrays of char,
so for wchar_t, char16_t, char32_t, and char8_t arrays that
terminator was passed to the parser as data, which the macro then
rejected.

Broaden the trimming to every character type that a string literal
can use (char, wchar_t, char16_t, char32_t, and, since C++20,
char8_t). Arrays of any other element type (unsigned char,
std::uint8_t, ...), as used for CBOR/MessagePack, are unaffected: a
trailing zero byte there is still read as genuine data.

Fixes #5658.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-30 20:07:37 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
1e101ecac1 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.

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

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

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

* 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)

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

* Amalgamate

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

* 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

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

* Link the BON8 functions from the other binary format pages

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

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

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

* 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.

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

* 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>
2026-09-27 16:56:21 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
1e44262091 Make JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING part of the ABI tag (#5560)
* Make JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING part of the ABI tag

JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING (#5534) changes the bodies of inline functions:
the lexer's handling of '\0' and input_adapter() for char arrays. So
translation units compiled with and without it define the same functions
differently, an ODR violation - the case the ABI tag exists for, as with
JSON_BRACE_INIT_COPY_SEMANTICS (_bics). It now appends _snul to the inline
namespace. The macro is new in 3.13.0, so no existing namespace changes.

Its default moves to abi_macros.hpp, and it is only #undef'd without
JSON_TEST_KEEP_MACROS, as for the other ABI macros. The ABI config tests,
the namespace docs, the macro's docs and the Natvis file cover the new tag.

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

* Amalgamate

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-25 21:54:11 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
ed513715a8 Document that a NUL byte in the input is treated as end of input (#5534)
* docs: document that a NUL byte in the input is treated as end of input

A NUL byte anywhere in the input - trailing, or embedded ahead of more
otherwise well-formed JSON - is currently treated the same as genuine
end of input, so parsing silently stops there instead of raising the
parse_error.101 any other unexpected byte triggers. This mirrors the
NUL-terminated-C-string convention already used when no explicit input
length is given (json::parse(const char*) already stops at strlen()),
just applied uniformly rather than only when a length is genuinely
unavailable.

This behavior predates this change and is not being altered here -
changing it would be an observable, backwards-incompatible behavior
change for any caller that (knowingly or not) depends on it, which is
not something to do silently in a patch. Documenting the current,
verified behavior as a new FAQ entry instead, so it's an intentional
and discoverable part of the contract rather than a surprise.

Fixes #5530.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <niels.lohmann@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N4RQ1Ahan5YAGbnAQGjZTY

* Add JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING opt-in macro for issue #5530

A NUL byte anywhere in the input is currently treated the same as real
end of input, rather than raising parse_error.101 like any other
unexpected byte (documented in the previous commit's FAQ entry). A full
unconditional fix was tried in PR #5532 but rejected as too risky to
ship by default: any caller could depend on the current behavior, even
unknowingly (e.g. a zero-padded buffer). On PR #5534, gregmarr proposed
a compile-time opt-in flag instead, and the maintainer agreed, wanting
it available now and defaulting to the corrected behavior in 4.0.0.

This mirrors the existing JSON_BRACE_INIT_COPY_SEMANTICS precedent as
closely as sensible:
- JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING defaults to 0 (off); the three lexer sites
  that treat '\0' as EOF/comment-terminator are gated with
  `#if !JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING` so the default-off behavior is
  byte-for-byte identical to today's.
- input_adapters.hpp's `T (&array)[N]` overload additionally trims a
  single trailing '\0' from a `char` array (e.g. a string literal like
  `json::parse("123")`) when the macro is on, so that case keeps
  working; every other element type (unsigned char, std::uint8_t, ...)
  always keeps its full extent. This intentionally does *not* reuse the
  existing strlen()-based pointer overload via SFINAE-excluding `char`
  from the array overload, as originally sketched for this change: that
  approach is ambiguous against the newer generic container overload
  added since PR #5532, and even where it compiles, strlen()-scanning a
  `char` array that is not NUL-terminated within its bounds reads past
  the end of the array (confirmed with AddressSanitizer). Trimming only
  a single trailing byte, without scanning, avoids both problems.
- Documented via docs/mkdocs/docs/api/macros/json_strict_nul_handling.md,
  linked from the macros index/nav/features page, the FAQ entry, and
  the parse/accept/operator>> reference pages.
- Tested in unit-class_parser.cpp and unit-deserialization.cpp, default
  state unguarded and opt-in state guarded. Since the library itself
  #undefs the macro at the end of json.hpp (as JSON_BRACE_INIT_COPY_SEMANTICS
  already does), a plain `#if defined(JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING)` guard
  after the include never actually triggers; the tests instead capture
  the command-line value into a test-local macro before including the
  header. A few pre-existing fixtures elsewhere (std::array<uint8_t, N>
  sized one larger than their literal, relying on value-initialization
  to silently add a trailing zero byte) needed the same one-byte
  adjustment to keep passing under the opt-in behavior.

Unlike the precedent, this adds a proper `JSON_StrictNulHandling` CMake
option (rather than a raw -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS injection) and wires its
ci_test_strict_nul_handling target into the ci_cmake_options job matrix
in .github/workflows/ubuntu.yml, so the opt-in build is actually
exercised in CI -- closing the one gap in the precedent's own CI setup
(ci_test_brace_init_copy_semantics is defined but never referenced by
any workflow, so it has never actually run).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Clarify where JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING does not reject NUL bytes

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <niels.lohmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 06:55:21 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
f92024b317 De-duplicate the swap() diagnostic-positions characterization test (#5540) 2026-09-23 07:48:21 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
663013ce64 Fix incorrect diagnostic-positions test assertion for swap() (#5539)
The characterization test added in #5482 asserted that basic_json::swap()
does NOT exchange start_position/end_position, based on a misreading of
the code cited for #5420. In fact swap() (json.hpp, around line 3637)
does swap start_position/end_position along with the value, consistent
with copy-assignment. The test's assumption was backwards, so it failed
on every CI job across every branch/PR since the commit landed. Correct
the assertions to match the actual (and correct) behavior: positions are
exchanged together with values.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-22 21:35:00 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
29ba5973b6 Add missing diagnostic-positions test coverage (lifetime, input adapters, SAX) (#5482)
* Add missing diagnostic-positions test coverage (lifetime, input adapters, SAX)

Building on the merged unit-class_parser.cpp from #5417, add
characterization tests (regression protection for existing behavior, not a
behavior change) for JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS:

- value lifetime: copy ctor copies positions recursively, move ctor resets
  the moved-from value to npos, and mutating a parsed document (operator[],
  push_back, erase) leaves the parent's stale span and siblings' positions
  untouched while new values get npos.
- input adapters: wide-string input positions count transcoded UTF-8 bytes
  (not wide characters), BOM-prefixed input's start_pos() reflects the
  skipped 3-byte BOM, istringstream/ifstream/iterator-pair inputs report
  consistent (non-npos) positions, and binary formats (CBOR, MessagePack,
  UBJSON, BSON) always report npos.
- a user-constructed json_sax_dom_parser with no lexer (as used when driving
  json::sax_parse() directly) reports npos for every value, since it has no
  m_lexer_ref to source positions from.

While characterizing swap(), found that basic_json::swap() (and the friend
swap() that forwards to it) does not swap start_position/end_position,
unlike copy-assignment's operator=(basic_json), which does as part of its
copy-and-swap implementation. This looks like a real inconsistency/bug, but
per the scope of this test-only change it is only pinned (not fixed) here;
see the comment at the "swap() does NOT exchange positions" section.

Fixes #5420

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

* Fix MSVC source-encoding portability in the wide-string position test

Use é escapes instead of a literal UTF-8-encoded 'é' inside the L""
literal, so the wide string's content does not depend on the compiler's
assumed source character set (MSVC without /utf-8 decodes raw non-ASCII
source bytes using the system code page rather than as UTF-8, which was
producing a wstring of unexpected length/content and failing the
ws.size()/end_pos() assertions on Windows CI).

Also reworded a comment that unintentionally embedded the literal
substring "TODO check", which clang-tidy's google-readability-todo check
flags regardless of quoting context.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-16 20:16:40 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
c0b2878a44 Swap diagnostic positions in basic_json::swap() (#5493)
basic_json::swap() (and the friend swap() that forwards to it) only
exchanged m_data.m_type/m_data.m_value, leaving start_position/end_position
untouched under JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS. This is inconsistent with
copy-assignment's operator=(basic_json), which swaps positions as part of
its copy-and-swap implementation, so after swap(a, b) each value ended up
with the other value's content but its own original position.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-13 17:43:59 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
1dc1d09fc6 Do not search a container for the value the callback rejected (#5457)
When a parser callback rejects a value, the placeholder stored for it has to
be removed from its parent again. remove_discarded_value() found it by
scanning the parent from the beginning, so filtering a container cost one
scan per rejected member - quadratic in the number of members of a single
container.

A rejected value can only ever be the one most recently added to its parent:
the last element of an array, or the placeholder key() stored under the
current key in an object. Record that key alongside the existing
key_keep_stack, and for a container record it again alongside ref_stack so
end_object()/end_array() can find it in the parent. Removal is then O(1) for
an array and O(log n) for an object, and finding nothing there means nothing
was stored, so there is nothing to remove.

The key for a container is read before handle_value() may consume it, so it
is also correct when the callback rejects the container at its start event
and it never reaches its parent at all.

Discarding half the members of one object, before -> after:

     members     value rejected    container rejected at start
      16 000    392 ms -> 3.7 ms      803 ms ->  8.2 ms
      64 000   6238 ms -> 14.6 ms   12651 ms -> 32.2 ms
     128 000  25339 ms -> 30.6 ms

Results are unchanged: 48 000 randomized documents parsed under 12 different
filtering callbacks - covering duplicate keys, empty keys, rejected keys and
containers rejected at both their start and end events - produce byte
identical output before and after.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-11 08:22:50 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
35cdd5f408 De-duplicate the diagnostic-positions test files via define-based recompilation (#5474)
tests/src/unit-class_parser_diagnostic_positions.cpp and
tests/src/unit-diagnostic-positions-only.cpp were maintained as near-copies
of unit-class_parser.cpp and unit-diagnostic-positions.cpp respectively, and
had drifted: trailing-comma handling, the #5342 filter-array/filter-value
sections, and the cross-input-adapter diagnostics test were never ported to
the positions-enabled copy.

Fold the position-specific assertions into the base files, guarded by
file a second time with the relevant macro set via CMake COMPILE_DEFINITIONS
(mirroring the existing test-comparison_legacy pattern) instead of
maintaining a separate source file. This removes the duplication and, as a
side effect, closes the coverage gaps above since the full test file now
compiles under JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS=1 as well.

Fixes #5417

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-11 08:18:43 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
c9f1d2d646 Broaden JSON_HEDLEY_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT coverage to pure query functions (#5477)
* Broaden JSON_HEDLEY_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT coverage to pure query functions

Add JSON_HEDLEY_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT to the unambiguous, const,
side-effect-free observer functions whose return value is the entire
purpose of the call:

- dump()
- type(), type_name()
- all is_* predicates (is_primitive, is_structured, is_null,
  is_boolean, is_number, is_number_integer, is_number_unsigned,
  is_number_float, is_object, is_array, is_string, is_binary,
  is_discarded)
- empty(), size(), max_size()
- count(...) (both overloads) and contains(...) (all overloads,
  including the deprecated json_pointer<BasicJsonType> overload)

This mirrors the direction the standard library has taken with
[[nodiscard]] on the analogous std::vector/std::map members, and
catches real bugs such as `j.empty();` (meant `j.clear();`) or
`j.contains(k);` with the result thrown away.

Deliberately out of scope (left for a separate, later policy
decision, per the issue): at(), value(), get*(), flatten(),
unflatten(), patch(), merge_patch(), begin()/end(), comparison
operators, erase(), and emplace().

Compiling the full test suite (tests/src/unit-*.cpp) with
-Wunused-result -Werror uncovered one real hit: a regression test in
unit-regression2.cpp called dump() purely to check it does not throw,
discarding the result. Fixed by explicitly casting to void, since the
call is intentionally result-less there.

Fixes #5410

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

* Fix discarded nodiscard results across the test suite for GCC's warn_unused_result

A plain (void) cast on a call expression suppresses the C++17 [[nodiscard]]
warning but not GCC's warning for functions annotated via the GNU
__attribute__((warn_unused_result)) form -- which is what
JSON_HEDLEY_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT expands to on GCC. Several existing tests
that call a newly-annotated function (dump(), empty()) purely to check
that it throws/does not throw, discarding the result via (void), newly
warned (and failed -Werror builds) once the annotation was broadened.
Route those discards through a small ignore_return_value() helper
instead, which actually consumes the value and suppresses the warning
on both attribute forms.

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

* Use utils::ignore_return_value() for the issue #1445 dump() discard too

Addresses review feedback from @gregmarr on PR #5477: this call site was
still using the older "capture in a variable, then (void) it" pattern
from before this PR introduced utils::ignore_return_value(), instead of
the helper now used at every other discarded-nodiscard-result call site
this PR touches.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-09 09:50:39 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
6d86cc0f6b Speed up whitespace skipping in the lexer (#5490)
* Speed up whitespace skipping in the lexer

lexer::skip_whitespace() called get() for every whitespace byte, and
get() checks the (almost always false, once past the first character)
next_unget flag on every call. skip_whitespace() now reads its first
character with get() (needed to honor a pending unget() left over from
finishing the previous token, e.g. scan_number() always ungets the
character that terminated the number) and every further whitespace
character with a new get_ignoring_pending_unget() variant that skips
that branch, since nothing in the loop calls unget().

This is a narrower fix than the full contiguous-buffer bulk-skip
suggested in the issue (scan a run of whitespace directly in the
adapter's buffer and update position counters once per run). That
approach depends on bulk-scan adapter infrastructure
(supports_bulk_scan/bulk_data()/bulk_skip()) introduced by the open,
unmerged parser-performance PR #5283, which this change intentionally
does not depend on or replicate. Building new bulk-scan adapter
infrastructure from scratch was judged out of scope/riskier than
warranted here, so this change is limited to the safe, always-correct
improvement of removing redundant per-character bookkeeping from the
existing byte-at-a-time loop; full bulk-skipping is left as future
work once #5283 (or equivalent adapter support) lands.

Line/column/byte-offset bookkeeping is untouched and verified
bit-for-bit identical before and after this change, including for
pretty-printed (dump(4)) input with embedded newlines.

Fixes #5412

Stacked on top of the PR for #5411 (branch
issue-5411-lexer-skip-conversion).

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

* Fix codegen regression in skip_whitespace() from #5490

Benchmarking found the get()/get_ignoring_pending_unget() split in
skip_whitespace() made long whitespace runs (e.g. indentation in
pretty-printed JSON) 1.75x-3.2x SLOWER instead of faster, reproducible
with both Apple Clang and GCC.

Root cause: rewriting the loop from a plain do-while into an initial
get() followed by a while-loop defeated the compiler's ability to keep
the input adapter's read/end pointers in registers across iterations;
both compilers instead reloaded them from memory on every character.
The function split itself was not the problem (it still fully
inlines); the loop's control-flow shape was.

The fix keeps the same two-function structure but restores a
do-while shape (guarded by an if for the "first char not whitespace"
case), which lets both compilers hoist the pointers back into
registers, matching or beating pre-#5490 performance.

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

* Share the position-counter bump between get() and get_ignoring_pending_unget()

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

* Extract current_is_whitespace() to deduplicate skip_whitespace()'s two whitespace checks

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

* Use a raw string literal for the multi-line error-position test input

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

* Fix clang-tidy raw-string-literal finding and guard a new test against JSON_NOEXCEPTION

The issue #5412 whitespace-skipping test added a check_error() helper that
relies on catching json::parse_error to verify the exception message; under
JSON_NOEXCEPTION, JSON_THROW aborts instead of throwing, which crashed
ci_test_noexceptions (and cascaded into the other ci_cmake_options jobs).
Guard the whole section with #if !defined(JSON_NOEXCEPTION), matching the
existing pattern used by sibling tests in this file.

Also switch one escaped string literal to a raw string literal to satisfy
clang-tidy's modernize-raw-string-literal check.

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-09 09:46:26 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
faa35cc647 Skip integer conversion in accept()/SAX validation when the value is unused (#5484)
* Skip integer conversion in accept()/SAX validation when the value is unused

lexer::scan_number() always converted every numeric token with
strtoull()/strtoll() before returning, even though accept() (and any
consumer using json_sax_acceptor) immediately discards the converted
value. For value_unsigned/value_integer tokens whose digit count
already guarantees the value fits into 64 bits, the conversion cannot
change the accept/reject decision (such tokens are always finite and
unconditionally accepted), so scan_number() can skip strtoull()/
strtoll() entirely in that case when the caller signals it does not
need the value. Numbers with more digits keep using the exact,
unmodified conversion path, so overflow reclassification to
value_float (and the finiteness check on it) is unaffected.

parse() and value_float handling are completely unchanged.

Fixes #5411

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

* Document why the digit-count fast path is safe regardless of number_unsigned_t/number_integer_t width

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

* Avoid temporary-string concatenation flagged by clang-tidy in the differential test

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-09 09:46:26 +02:00
Angadi56
68f0722a19 remove discarded array from parent object in end_array (#5342)
* remove discarded array from parent object in end_array

Signed-off-by: Angadi Yashaswini <angadi@digiscrypt.com>

* remove discarded scalar value from parent object in handle_value

Signed-off-by: Angadi Yashaswini <angadi@digiscrypt.com>

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Signed-off-by: Angadi Yashaswini <angadi@digiscrypt.com>
2026-08-03 19:13:31 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
eed1587000 Reconstruct lexer diagnostics lazily for seekable input (#120) (#5234)
`lexer::get()` copied every scanned character into `token_string` on the
whole successful-parse hot path, yet that buffer is consumed only by
`get_token_string()` when rendering the "last read" fragment of a parse
error. On well-formed input the per-byte copy (plus the `unget()` pop)
is pure overhead that is always discarded.

For seekable input adapters - random-access, single-byte iterators such
as those backing `std::string`, `const char*`, and `std::vector<char>` -
the offending token is now reconstructed on demand from the input when
an error is reported, using a saved start offset, and the eager copy is
skipped. Streaming adapters (file, istream, wide-string, and user-defined
adapters) keep the eager copy; the strategy is chosen at compile time via
`input_adapter_supports_seek`, so adapters without the capability are
unaffected.

Error messages are byte-for-byte identical across all adapters, verified
by a new parity regression test. Microbenchmark (4 MB mixed JSON, parsed
from a std::string): ~149 -> ~160 MB/s, about +8%.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-05 10:42:48 +02:00
risa2000
fd17b0889e Remove nullptr safety check from sax_parse functions (#5139)
PR #4873 introduced a safety check in sax_parse functions to catch
nullptr passed as SAX parser object, which had been already annotated by
JSON_HEDLEY_NON_NULL macro.

Compilers (e.g. clang) which respected the non-null annotation tended to
eliminate the safety check completely in optimized builds, while
compilers which did not, compiled the safety check in. This led to
different behaviors accross different compilers/platforms  and/or build
types (debug, release).

This commit reverts PR #4873 to remove this discrepancy. Passing null to
non-null annotated parameter is considered to be undefined behavior.

Fixes #5048

Signed-off-by: Richard Musil <risa2000x@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Richard Musil <risa2000x@gmail.com>
2026-05-08 07:55:02 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
515d994acb 📄 adjust year (#5044)
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-01-01 20:00:39 +01:00
Niels Lohmann
54be9b04f0 📄 update REUSE (#4960) 2025-10-23 06:56:36 +02:00
Nikhil
efcf9efb4f Fixes #4854 Explicitly handle nullptr in sax_parse (#4873)
* handle nullptr explicitly

Signed-off-by: Nikhil <nikhilreddydev@gmail.com>

* add test

Signed-off-by: Nikhil <nikhilreddydev@gmail.com>

* make amalgamate

Signed-off-by: Nikhil <nikhilreddydev@gmail.com>

* Fix formatting

Signed-off-by: Nikhil <nikhilreddydev@gmail.com>

* move sax parse test to relevant unit test file

Signed-off-by: Nikhil <nikhilreddydev@gmail.com>

* extend exceptions.md to include other_error.502

Signed-off-by: Nikhil <nikhilreddydev@gmail.com>

* Better exception messages

Signed-off-by: Nikhil <nikhilreddydev@gmail.com>

* link sax_parse function

Signed-off-by: Nikhil <nikhilreddydev@gmail.com>

* fix string

Signed-off-by: Nikhil <nikhilreddydev@gmail.com>

* amalgamate

Signed-off-by: Nikhil <nikhilreddydev@gmail.com>

* fix clang-tidy checks

Signed-off-by: Nikhil <nikhilreddydev@gmail.com>

* cover valid handler with no throw

Signed-off-by: Nikhil <nikhilreddydev@gmail.com>

* Add tests for other two overloads

Signed-off-by: Nikhil <nikhilreddydev@gmail.com>

* cover overload with valid sax handler

Signed-off-by: Nikhil <nikhilreddydev@gmail.com>

* pass an rvalue

Signed-off-by: Nikhil <nikhilreddydev@gmail.com>

* ignore -Wtautological-pointer-compare

Signed-off-by: Nikhil <nikhilreddydev@gmail.com>

* ignore clang-analyzer-core.NonNullParamChecker

Signed-off-by: Nikhil <nikhilreddydev@gmail.com>

* ignore gcc -Wnonnull-compare

Signed-off-by: Nikhil <nikhilreddydev@gmail.com>

* ignore undefined-behaviour-sanitizer

Signed-off-by: Nikhil <nikhilreddydev@gmail.com>

* nest directives to ignore sanitizer errors

Signed-off-by: Nikhil <nikhilreddydev@gmail.com>

* use elif

Signed-off-by: Nikhil <nikhilreddydev@gmail.com>

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Signed-off-by: Nikhil <nikhilreddydev@gmail.com>
2025-08-02 21:06:01 +02:00
chirsz
4b17f90f65 Add ignore_trailing_commas option (#4609)
Added examples and modified the corresponding documents and unit tests.

Signed-off-by: chirsz-ever <chirsz-ever@outlook.com>
Co-authored-by: Niels Lohmann <niels.lohmann@gmail.com>
2025-05-22 08:01:46 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
e02de2f971 Update to Doctest 2.4.12 (#4771)
* ⬆️ Doctest 2.4.12

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

* 🚨 fix warnings

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

* 🚨 fix warnings

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

* 🚨 fix warnings

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

* 🚨 fix warnings

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

* 🚨 fix warnings

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

* 🚨 fix warnings

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

* 🚨 fix warnings

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

* 🚨 fix warnings

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

* 🚨 fix warnings

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

* 🚨 fix warnings

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

* 🚨 fix warnings

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

* 🚨 fix warnings

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

* 🚨 fix warnings

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

* 🚨 fix warnings

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

* 🚨 fix warnings

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

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2025-05-15 19:25:27 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
1705bfe914 🔖 set version to 3.12.0 (#4727)
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2025-04-11 10:41:14 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
f06604fce0 Bump the copyright years (#4606)
* 📄 bump the copyright years

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

* 📄 bump the copyright years

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

* 📄 bump the copyright years

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <niels.lohmann@gmail.com>

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <niels.lohmann@gmail.com>
2025-01-19 17:04:17 +01:00
Niels Lohmann
f038ac4c9d Enable modernize-use-integer-sign-comparison check (#4581)
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2025-01-02 13:24:05 +01:00
Sushrut Shringarputale
58f5f25968 json start/end position implementation (#4517)
* 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>
2024-12-18 22:46:14 +01:00
Niels Lohmann
1b9a9d1f21 Update licenses (#4521)
* 📄 update licenses

* 📄 update licenses
2024-11-29 17:38:42 +01:00
laterlaugh
97f0bdaf9a chore: fix some typos in comments (#4345)
chore: fix some typos in comments

Signed-off-by: laterlaugh <manziwenzhai@sina.cn>
2024-04-12 15:20:18 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
c35d260c2f Suppress Clang-Tidy warnings (#4276) 2024-01-28 14:04:07 +01:00
Niels Lohmann
9cca280a4d JSON for Modern C++ 3.11.3 (#4222) 2023-11-28 22:36:31 +01:00
Niels Lohmann
f56c6e2e30 Update documentation for the next release (#4216) 2023-11-26 15:51:19 +01:00
Niels Lohmann
1ce29fa22f Fix CI (#4160) 2023-09-23 17:19:28 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
58bd97e2b1 Add clang-tools to required tools for ci_static_analysis_clang (#3724)
* 💚 add clang-tools to required tools for ci_static_analysis_clang

* 🚨 update Clang-Tidy warning selection

* 🚨 fix Clang-Tidy warnings

* 🚨 fix Clang-Tidy warnings

* 🚨 fix Clang-Tidy warnings

* 🚨 fix Clang-Tidy warnings

* 🚨 fix Clang-Tidy warnings

* 🚨 fix Clang-Tidy warnings

* 🚨 fix Clang-Tidy warnings

* 🚨 fix Clang-Tidy warnings

* 🚨 fix Clang-Tidy warnings

* 🚨 fix Clang-Tidy warnings

* 🚨 fix Clang-Tidy warnings (#3738)

* ⏪ revert fix

* ⏪ revert fix

* 🚨 fix Clang-Tidy warnings (#3739)

Co-authored-by: Florian Albrechtskirchinger <falbrechtskirchinger@gmail.com>
2022-09-13 12:58:26 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
9d69186291 🔖 set version to 3.11.2 2022-08-12 15:04:06 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
f2020da0dd 🔖 set version to 3.11.1 2022-08-01 23:27:58 +02:00
Florian Albrechtskirchinger
cbaf1033be Fix global UDLs (#3646)
* Add ci_test_noglobaludls to CI

* Really default JSON_GLOBAL_UDLS to 1

* Test global UDLs

* Suppress warnings

* Clarify documentation
2022-08-01 22:42:35 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
ce0e13ccea 🔖 set version to 3.11.0 2022-07-31 23:19:06 +02:00
Florian Albrechtskirchinger
9aafcbe965 Move UDLs out of the global namespace (#3605)
* 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
2022-07-31 17:38:52 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
527da54dcb Use REUSE framework (#3546)
* 📄 add licenses

* 👷 add REUSE compliance check

* 📝 add badge for REUSE

Co-authored-by: Florian Albrechtskirchinger <falbrechtskirchinger@gmail.com>
2022-07-20 12:38:07 +02:00
Florian Albrechtskirchinger
6b97599a27 Fix C++20/gcc-12 issues (Part 2) (#3446)
* Add C++20 3-way comparison operator and fix broken comparisons

Fixes #3207.
Fixes #3409.

* Fix iterators to meet (more) std::ranges requirements

Fixes #3130.
Related discussion: #3408

* Add note about CMake standard version selection to unit tests

Document how CMake chooses which C++ standard version to use when
building tests.

* Update documentation

* CI: add legacy discarded value comparison

* Fix internal linkage errors when building a module
2022-05-29 13:08:06 +02:00
Niels Lohmann
b21c345179 Reorganize directories (#3462)
* 🚚 move files
* 🚚 rename doc folder to docs
* 🚚 rename test folder to tests
2022-05-01 09:41:50 +02:00