* Review and extend the documentation, and check it in CI
A review of all documentation pages found factual errors, dead links,
missing cross-references, and gaps in examples. This fixes them and adds
checks so the same problems are caught automatically.
Fixes:
- wrong signatures and version histories (operator!= C++20 member,
binary() subtype type, get<PointerType>(), JSON_NO_THREAD_LOCAL, ...)
- stale descriptions (number parsing since #5283, UBJSON table, SAX
example that no longer compiled, tsl::ordered_map advice)
- dead internal and external links; repology.org badges (the domain is
suspended) replaced by badges that query the registries directly
- deprecation notes link the migration guide; the guide itself fixed
Additions:
- "See also" sections, cross-references, 25 runnable examples, 12
Mermaid diagrams, new API pages for json_pointer::operator<=> and
byte_container_with_subtype::operator==/!=
- landing page, guides for untrusted input and performance
- "unreleased" badge after versions newer than the latest release
Checks:
- strict documentation build (broken links/anchors fail it); CI and
the publish workflow fetch the full history the build needs
- weekly external link check, Mermaid syntax check in CI
- check_structure.py: example titles, heading levels, alt texts,
header links, docset index coverage; its unused-example check works
again
- all examples produce the same output on every platform
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* Keep the customer links that could not be fixed
A dead link on the customers page is still the evidence of where the
use of the library was documented. Keep the original URLs of the entries
without a working replacement (Marne, Cisco Webex Desk Camera, Philips
Hue, CyberArk) and exclude exactly these URLs from the link check.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* Correct the duplicate-key recipe's claim about SAX positions
The SAX interface's key() receives no position either; only parse_error()
does. Also note that the recipe does not report the path to the repeated
key (see discussion #5085).
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* Say the library is available as a single header and mention json_fwd.hpp
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* Correct documentation errors found while hunting for bugs
- patch/patch_inplace: list the JSON pointer errors parse_error.106-109
and out_of_range.402/404, and quote the actual parse_error.105 message.
- unflatten: list parse_error.106/107/108 and out_of_range.404.
- to_bson: list out_of_range.415 (binary subtype above 255) and note
that 412 and 415 are new in 3.13.0.
- to_string: state that string_t must be convertible to std::string, also
in the StringType requirements table.
- JSON Lines: a `while (input >> j)` loop also throws after the last value
for concatenated JSON values; show a loop that works for both.
- BON8: a string gets 0xFF only if nothing follows it in the message; a
string at the end of an array or object is ended by 0xFE.
- custom_string_type.hpp: add operator+=(char), which the "Always
required" list asks for (json_pointer::to_string, flatten, unflatten,
and diff did not compile), and an ADL int_to_string for diff and items.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* Cache the release headers with functools.lru_cache
Codacy (Pylint) flagged the mutable default argument that header() used
as its cache. functools.lru_cache keeps the same memoization without it.
The script's output is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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* 📝 Fix stale 3.12.x placeholder in operator_ne.md version history
PR #5253 (removing the hand-written operator!= to fix #3868/P2468R2)
merged after the earlier 3.12.x -> 3.13.0 global sweep, so its new
version-history entries were written with the stale placeholder.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* 🐛 Fix stale twitter.com link in docset.json
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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* Fix#3868: Remove operator!= to enable P2468R2 rewritten candidate synthesis
Under C++20 P2468R2, a hand-written operator!= suppresses the compiler's
rewritten-candidate synthesis for operator==, preventing heterogeneous
comparisons like `std::string s; json j; s == j;` from compiling.
Fix by removing the hand-written operator!=, allowing the compiler to
synthesize != as !(a==b) in all language modes (C++20 member functions
and pre-C++20 friend functions).
Behavior change: operator!= now returns !(a==b) unconditionally, including
for special values like NaN and discarded. This means:
- NaN != NaN now returns true (matches IEEE-754 semantics)
- discarded != x now returns true for any x (matches !(discarded == x))
This also fixes underlying defects in previously-working code:
- Restores direct == comparison for views vs json (reverts std::ranges::equal
workaround added in PR #3950 to dodge this bug)
- Re-enables std::string == json comparisons (uncomments check in
unit-constructor1.cpp)
Fixes: #3868, #3979
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* 🚨 fix warning
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* 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
