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json/docs/mkdocs/docs/examples/basic_json_view__contains.cpp
Niels Lohmann 2f087c6b73 Document element access, lookup, and iteration of json_view
- API pages for operator[], at, front, back, find, contains, count,
  begin, end, cbegin, cend, items, and type_name of basic_json_view,
  linked both ways with the basic_json pages
- the feature page and size() describe document order and duplicate
  keys
- the examples show when the view helps: reading a few fields of a large
  text, probing optional members, and members in source order

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-30 15:08:00 +02:00

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#include <iostream>
#include <nlohmann/json_view.hpp>
using json_document = nlohmann::json_document;
int main()
{
// count how many of many incoming records carry an optional "retry_of"
// field -- contains() only walks the flat index, so scanning a large
// batch like this never builds a single nlohmann::json value
json_document batch = json_document::parse(R"(
[
{"id": 1},
{"id": 2, "retry_of": 1},
{"id": 3},
{"id": 4, "retry_of": 3}
]
)");
const auto records = batch.root();
std::size_t retries = 0;
for (std::size_t i = 0; i < records.size(); ++i)
{
if (records[i].contains("retry_of"))
{
++retries;
}
}
std::cout << retries << " of " << records.size() << " records are retries\n";
}