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json/docs/mkdocs/docs/examples/basic_json_document__set.cpp
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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#include <iostream>
#include <nlohmann/json_view.hpp>
using json = nlohmann::json;
using json_editable_document = nlohmann::json_editable_document;
using json_editable_view = nlohmann::json_editable_view;
int main()
{
// a configuration file, as it might be read from disk -- "price" is
// written with a trailing zero that has no effect on its value
const std::string text = R"({
"name": "cache",
"host": "db1",
"port": 6379,
"price": 19.90,
"replicas": ["db2", "db3"],
"timeout": 30
})";
json_editable_document doc = json_editable_document::parse(text);
doc.set(doc.root()["port"], 6380); // (1) replace a value
doc.set(doc.root(), "region", "us-east"); // (2) add a member
doc.set(doc.root()["replicas"], 0, "db4"); // (3) assign an element
doc.set(json::json_pointer("/timeout"), 45); // (4) via a JSON pointer
// members stay in document order (the new one at the end), and a number
// that was not itself edited keeps its exact spelling
std::cout << doc.root().dump(2, ' ', false, json_editable_view::number_format::source) << "\n\n";
// the same edits on a plain json value: object_t is a std::map, so
// parsing already sorted the keys, and dump() rewrites every number to
// its shortest form, even "price", which was never touched
json plain = json::parse(text);
plain["port"] = 6380;
plain["region"] = "us-east";
plain["replicas"][0] = "db4";
plain[json::json_pointer("/timeout")] = 45;
std::cout << plain.dump(2) << '\n';
}