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examples/ubjson_valueless_elements_per_byte_raised.cpp

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+#include <cstdint>
+#include <iostream>
+#include <vector>
+
+// accept 16 values per byte of input instead of 4; define the macro before the
+// first inclusion of the header, and to the same value in every translation unit
+#define JSON_UBJSON_VALUELESS_ELEMENTS_PER_BYTE 16
+#include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
+
+using json = nlohmann::json;
+
+// the bytes version 3.12.0 wrote for a table of 1100 rows of 1000 null values
+// with to_ubjson(table, true, true): `[$[#I` and the number of rows, then
+// `$Z#I` and the number of elements for every row
+std::vector<std::uint8_t> table_written_by_3_12_0()
+{
+    std::vector<std::uint8_t> bytes = {'[', '$', '[', '#', 'I', 1100 >> 8, 1100 & 0xFF};
+    for (int row = 0; row < 1100; ++row)
+    {
+        bytes.insert(bytes.end(), {'$', 'Z', '#', 'I', 1000 >> 8, 1000 & 0xFF});
+    }
+    return bytes;
+}
+
+int main()
+{
+    // 6607 bytes announce 1,100,000 values, which is below 1,048,576 plus 16
+    // for every byte read
+    json table = json::from_ubjson(table_written_by_3_12_0());
+    std::cout << table.size() << " rows of " << table[0].size() << " values\n";
+
+    // a single container is still limited to 1,048,576 elements
+    const std::vector<std::uint8_t> too_long = {'[', '$', 'Z', '#', 'l', 0x00, 0x10, 0x00, 0x01};
+    try
+    {
+        json j = json::from_ubjson(too_long);
+    }
+    catch (const json::out_of_range& e)
+    {
+        std::cout << e.what() << '\n';
+    }
+}