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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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nlohmann::basic_json_view::cbegin

iterator cbegin() const noexcept;

Returns an iterator to the first element, in document order. Equivalent to begin(): a view is always read-only, so #!cpp const_iterator and #!cpp iterator are the same type, and cbegin() exists only so that generic code that expects a cbegin()/cend() pair works with a view too.

Return value

Iterator to the first element; identical to what begin() returns.

Exception safety

No-throw guarantee: this function never throws exceptions.

Complexity

Constant.

Examples

??? example

The example below sums many measurements with `std::accumulate`, using `cbegin()`/[`cend()`](cend.md) as the
range -- the same way it would for any standard container -- without ever materializing the whole array into a
`BasicJsonType` value.

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

Output:

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

See also

  • begin - returns an iterator to the first element
  • cend - returns a const iterator to one past the last element
  • BasicJsonType::cbegin - the corresponding function of basic_json

Version history

  • Added in version 3.13.0.