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Niels Lohmann e8907a55dc Add element access, iteration, values, and JSON pointers to json_view
Give basic_json_view the read-only access functions of basic_json:
operator[] and at() with keys and indices, front()/back(), find(),
contains(), count(), begin()/end() and cbegin()/cend(), items()
with structured bindings from C++17 on, and type_name().

Exceptions have the ids and messages of the const functions of
basic_json. Where basic_json has undefined behavior the view
answers safely: operator[] with a missing key or an out-of-range
index returns a discarded view, and front()/back() of an empty
container throw invalid_iterator.214. Objects are iterated in
document order, and all members are visited; duplicate-key lookups
find the first member (as yyjson and simdjson do), while parse(),
materialize(), and the map conversions keep the last value, as
parse() does. Keys of up to 16 bytes are compared with two
overlapping loads.

Add value conversions: get<T>()/get_to() for arithmetic types,
bool, nullptr_t, strings (std::basic_string copied,
string_view_t without a copy), BasicJsonType, views, std::vector,
and maps with string keys; get_string() for the string without a
copy; number_token() for the number exactly as written in the
source; value() with keys and JSON pointers; and operator[]/at()/
contains() with JSON pointers. Everything else, including types
with from_json(), goes through materialize() of that subtree.
get<T>() of arithmetic types is inlined down to the conversion, so
reading an integer needs no call.

detail::json_pointer_access exposes a pointer's reference tokens
to code outside basic_json.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-11 11:30:33 +02:00

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nlohmann::basic_json_view::number_token

string_view_t number_token() const;

Returns the number exactly as it appears in the source text, without parsing or rounding it.

Return value

The number's token text, as a string_view_t into the document's source() text -- for example #!cpp "1.50", #!cpp "1E2", #!cpp "-0", or an integer literal with more digits than any number type holds (such as a 30-digit integer, which get<T>() and materialize() can only represent approximately, as a number_float_t).

Exception safety

Strong exception safety: if an exception is thrown, there are no changes to the view or the document it refers to.

Exceptions

Throws type_error.302 if the value is not a number; example: "type must be number, but is string".

This exception does not carry a JSON_DIAGNOSTICS path: the view has no BasicJsonType value to point at, so the exception is created without one, even if BasicJsonType was built with JSON_DIAGNOSTICS enabled.

Complexity

Constant.

Notes

BasicJsonType has no counterpart to this function: once a number is parsed into number_integer_t, number_unsigned_t, or number_float_t, its original textual form (leading zeros aside, which are already rejected by the grammar; trailing zeros in the fraction; the case and sign of the exponent; ...) is gone. number_token() is useful precisely where that form must survive -- a price or an identifier that must be reproduced exactly, or a number too large for any of BasicJsonType's number types to hold without loss.

The returned string_view_t always points into the document's source() text -- numbers are never decoded into the document's separate string buffer -- and is valid exactly as long as that text is, see the validity rules of basic_json_view.

Examples

??? example

The example below keeps a price and an order ID exactly as they were written in an incoming order, where
converting them with [`get<T>()`](get.md) would lose information: the price picks up floating-point rounding, and
the order ID -- more digits than a 64-bit integer holds -- can only be approximated as a `#!cpp double` once
`#!cpp materialize()`d.

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

Output:

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

See also

Version history

  • Added in version 3.13.0.