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Niels Lohmann c6ee5a64be Add editable json_documents: set, push_back, insert, and erase
basic_json_document gets a second template parameter, Editable
(false by default), plus the aliases json_editable_document,
json_editable_view, ordered_json_editable_document and
ordered_json_editable_view.

Editable documents can change values and structure without
rewriting the source text: set()/push_back() on values, keys,
array indices and JSON pointers; insert() before an array
element; erase() of an object key, array index or JSON pointer.

New values and element sequences go into edit storage that the
document owns and never moves, so views keep referring to their
value across edits and a parsed node never moves. Read-only
documents walk the plain node array and are unaffected.

Strings are checked for UTF-8 on entry, so dump() of an editable
document never throws type_error.316. Binary values cannot be
stored (type_error.319).

A seeded differential test applies random edits to an editable
document and to the equivalent ordered_json and compares both
after every step.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-07 16:42:38 +02:00

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nlohmann::ordered_json_editable_document

Defined in header <nlohmann/json_view.hpp>

using ordered_json_editable_document = basic_json_document<ordered_json, true>;

This type is an editable basic_json_document of the ordered_json specialization: set and push_back change values after parsing, as for json_editable_document, and materialize() preserves the document order of object members -- including members set added -- instead of sorting them like json_editable_document does.

Examples

??? example

The example below edits a document with `set`, then shows that `materialize()` keeps the member order of the
source text (with the new member at the end) for `ordered_json_editable_document`, where it would sort the
members alphabetically for [`json_editable_document`](json_editable_document.md).

```cpp
--8<-- "examples/ordered_json_editable_document.cpp"
```

Output:

```json
--8<-- "examples/ordered_json_editable_document.output"
```

See also

Version history

Since version 3.13.0.