Add JSON_NO_UDLS to leave out the user-defined string literals

The bodies of operator""_json and operator""_json_pointer call the
parser, so every translation unit including the library instantiates it,
even if it never parses anything. Defining JSON_NO_UDLS leaves the
literals out entirely, which saves 15-35% compile time for such
translation units (#5294). Nothing changes if the macro is not defined.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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// __ _____ _____ _____
// __| | __| | | | JSON for Modern C++ (supporting code)
// | | |__ | | | | | | version 3.12.0
// |_____|_____|_____|_|___| https://github.com/nlohmann/json
//
// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013-2026 Niels Lohmann <https://nlohmann.me>
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
// This translation unit checks JSON_NO_UDLS, which leaves out the user-defined
// string literals operator""_json and operator""_json_pointer entirely (see
// #5294), while the rest of the library keeps working.
#define JSON_NO_UDLS 1
#include "doctest_compatibility.h"
#include <cstddef>
#include <utility>
#include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
using json = nlohmann::json;
// An argument type whose associated namespace is the library namespace, so
// argument-dependent lookup of a literal operator called by its function name
// also searches the inline namespaces nlohmann::literals::json_literals.
NLOHMANN_JSON_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
struct no_udls_probe
{
operator const char* () const // NOLINT(google-explicit-constructor,hicpp-explicit-conversions)
{
return "";
}
};
NLOHMANN_JSON_NAMESPACE_END
namespace
{
// The calls below use a dependent argument, so a literal operator that is not
// declared at all is a substitution failure rather than a hard error: lookup is
// deferred to the point of instantiation, where it considers the declarations
// visible from here (the global using-declarations of JSON_USE_GLOBAL_UDLS) plus
// argument-dependent lookup (the literals in the library namespace).
template<typename T>
using json_udl_t = decltype(operator""_json(std::declval<T>(), std::size_t()));
template<typename T>
using json_pointer_udl_t = decltype(operator""_json_pointer(std::declval<T>(), std::size_t()));
template<typename T>
using has_json_udl = nlohmann::detail::is_detected<json_udl_t, T>;
template<typename T>
using has_json_pointer_udl = nlohmann::detail::is_detected<json_pointer_udl_t, T>;
} // namespace
TEST_CASE("JSON_NO_UDLS")
{
SECTION("literals are not declared")
{
// global namespace (JSON_USE_GLOBAL_UDLS defaults to 1)
CHECK_FALSE(has_json_udl<const char*>::value);
CHECK_FALSE(has_json_pointer_udl<const char*>::value);
// nlohmann::literals::json_literals
CHECK_FALSE(has_json_udl<nlohmann::no_udls_probe>::value);
CHECK_FALSE(has_json_pointer_udl<nlohmann::no_udls_probe>::value);
}
SECTION("the rest of the library keeps working")
{
const json j = json::parse(R"({"foo": {"bar": 42}})");
CHECK(j.dump() == R"({"foo":{"bar":42}})");
const json::json_pointer ptr("/foo/bar");
CHECK(j.at(ptr) == 42);
CHECK(j.contains(ptr));
}
}