- Make the iterator range illustrations legible in dark mode (prefers-color-scheme
rules inside the SVGs).
- Add a "Byte layout" section with a color-coded byte table to each binary format
page (BJData, BON8, BSON, CBOR, MessagePack, UBJSON), and highlight the smallest
size per file in the comparison table.
- Add "See also" sections to the overview pages that lacked one.
- Split the release notes into one page per release, grouped by minor version on
the overview page, with an "API changes" section per release generated from the
API pages' version histories (hooks/api_changes.py).
- Fact-check the release notes and version histories against the release tags and
correct wrong or misleading entries (e.g., json_serializer 2.1.0, merge_patch
3.1.0, items, count, operator[], to_bjdata, std::string_view key support).
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* Handle numbers that do not fit narrow number types in the binary readers
With custom number types narrower than the values in a binary document,
for example basic_json<..., std::int32_t, std::uint32_t, float>, every
binary reader (CBOR, MessagePack, UBJSON, BJData, BSON, BON8) passed the
decoded number to the SAX interface with an implicit conversion: the
integer 5000000000 silently became 705032704, and a finite double such as
1e300 became infinity. The lexer handles the same values in JSON text: an
integer that fits neither integer type is stored as number_float_t, and a
finite number that overflows number_float_t is rejected with
out_of_range.406.
Pass every number read from binary input through three helpers that
apply the lexer's rules:
- emit_signed(): number_integer_t, else number_unsigned_t for a
non-negative value, else number_float_t
- emit_unsigned(): number_unsigned_t, else number_float_t
- emit_float(): out_of_range.406 if a finite value overflows
number_float_t; infinity and NaN are passed on
For consistency, a CBOR negative integer below the range of
number_integer_t is now stored as number_float_t, like a too small
integer in JSON text, instead of being rejected with parse_error.112.
With the default number types, this is the only change in behavior.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* Fix MSVC and clang 3.5 in the narrow number type test
MSVC types 3000000000 and 5000000000 as unsigned long, so
json(-3000000000) triggered C4146 (unary minus on an unsigned type),
which /WX turns into an error. Use LL literals, as elsewhere in the
tests.
clang 3.5 cannot convert the lambdas in the braced initializer of the
format table to function pointers. Use named functions instead.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* Check integer-to-float fallbacks for overflow in the binary readers
emit_signed, emit_unsigned, and the CBOR negative integer fallback now
pass their number_float_t fallback through emit_float, so a value that
overflows number_float_t is rejected with out_of_range.406 like a
floating-point value, instead of silently becoming infinity. This only
matters for a number_float_t that cannot represent 2^64, such as a
half-precision type. The CBOR value -1 - n is computed as long double so
that emit_float sees a finite value.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* Use the input_format member instead of passing the format to binary_reader helpers
The helpers (get_number, get_to, get_string, get_binary, get_bytes,
emit_signed, emit_unsigned, emit_float, unexpect_eof, exception_message)
are members of binary_reader, which already stores the format it was
constructed with, so the parameter was redundant.
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* Review and extend the documentation, and check it in CI
A review of all documentation pages found factual errors, dead links,
missing cross-references, and gaps in examples. This fixes them and adds
checks so the same problems are caught automatically.
Fixes:
- wrong signatures and version histories (operator!= C++20 member,
binary() subtype type, get<PointerType>(), JSON_NO_THREAD_LOCAL, ...)
- stale descriptions (number parsing since #5283, UBJSON table, SAX
example that no longer compiled, tsl::ordered_map advice)
- dead internal and external links; repology.org badges (the domain is
suspended) replaced by badges that query the registries directly
- deprecation notes link the migration guide; the guide itself fixed
Additions:
- "See also" sections, cross-references, 25 runnable examples, 12
Mermaid diagrams, new API pages for json_pointer::operator<=> and
byte_container_with_subtype::operator==/!=
- landing page, guides for untrusted input and performance
- "unreleased" badge after versions newer than the latest release
Checks:
- strict documentation build (broken links/anchors fail it); CI and
the publish workflow fetch the full history the build needs
- weekly external link check, Mermaid syntax check in CI
- check_structure.py: example titles, heading levels, alt texts,
header links, docset index coverage; its unused-example check works
again
- all examples produce the same output on every platform
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* Keep the customer links that could not be fixed
A dead link on the customers page is still the evidence of where the
use of the library was documented. Keep the original URLs of the entries
without a working replacement (Marne, Cisco Webex Desk Camera, Philips
Hue, CyberArk) and exclude exactly these URLs from the link check.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* Correct the duplicate-key recipe's claim about SAX positions
The SAX interface's key() receives no position either; only parse_error()
does. Also note that the recipe does not report the path to the repeated
key (see discussion #5085).
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* Say the library is available as a single header and mention json_fwd.hpp
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* Correct documentation errors found while hunting for bugs
- patch/patch_inplace: list the JSON pointer errors parse_error.106-109
and out_of_range.402/404, and quote the actual parse_error.105 message.
- unflatten: list parse_error.106/107/108 and out_of_range.404.
- to_bson: list out_of_range.415 (binary subtype above 255) and note
that 412 and 415 are new in 3.13.0.
- to_string: state that string_t must be convertible to std::string, also
in the StringType requirements table.
- JSON Lines: a `while (input >> j)` loop also throws after the last value
for concatenated JSON values; show a loop that works for both.
- BON8: a string gets 0xFF only if nothing follows it in the message; a
string at the end of an array or object is ended by 0xFE.
- custom_string_type.hpp: add operator+=(char), which the "Always
required" list asks for (json_pointer::to_string, flatten, unflatten,
and diff did not compile), and an ADL int_to_string for diff and items.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* Cache the release headers with functools.lru_cache
Codacy (Pylint) flagged the mutable default argument that header() used
as its cache. functools.lru_cache keeps the same memoization without it.
The script's output is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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* Name the key type when rejecting non-string CBOR/MessagePack map keys
CBOR and MessagePack allow map keys of any type, but JSON object keys
are always strings, so such maps are rejected. The error so far was the
one for a malformed string (e.g. "expected length specification
(0xA0-0xBF, 0xD9-0xDB); last byte: 0xC0" for a nil key), which does not
tell the user what went wrong. Report the type of the key instead:
syntax error while parsing MessagePack object key: only string keys
are supported, but found nil; last byte: 0xC0
The exception id (parse_error.113) and type are unchanged. Malformed
string keys and a missing key keep their previous messages. Document
the restriction on the CBOR and MessagePack pages.
Refs #2766, #3381
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* Point the MessagePack key note to the spec's profile section
The note linked to "Serialization: type to format conversion", which says nothing about key types. Restricting map keys to strings is only mentioned in the "Profile" section (under "Future discussion") as an example of a JSON-compatible profile, so link there and describe it as such instead of as a permission.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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When using cbor_tag_handler_t::store, tags 0xD8-0xDB previously assumed
that the tagged item was a byte string, unconditionally attempting to
parse binary data and failing on valid CBOR documents containing tags
applied to integers, strings, arrays, or objects (such as self-describe
tag 55799).
Check whether the tagged data item is a byte string (0x40-0x5B or 0x5F).
If it is a byte string, store the subtype on the binary value as before.
Otherwise, iteratively process the tagged value in the driver loop using
item_read so that chained tags do not consume native stack space.
Part of #5316.
Signed-off-by: ReturnKartikey <kartikeynegi2000.work@gmail.com>
* 🐛 fix BSON conformance issue
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* 🐛 fix BSON conformance issue
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* 🐛 reject ill-formed UTF-8 in CBOR/MessagePack/BSON text strings at decode time (#5531)
from_cbor()/from_msgpack()/from_bson() copied the raw bytes of a decoded
text string into the resulting json value without any UTF-8 validation,
even though RFC 8949 §3.1 (CBOR) and the MessagePack/BSON specifications
all require text strings to be valid UTF-8. Malformed input only failed
later, if the value was dump()'d, with a type_error.316 - so the
allow_exceptions=false pattern used specifically to get a discarded
sentinel instead of an exception did not discard this category of
malformed input, unlike every other kind of malformed binary input this
library rejects at decode time (see #5529).
Fix this at the single choke point shared by BSON/CBOR/MessagePack/UBJSON
string reads, binary_reader::get_string(): validate the bytes with the
UTF-8 DFA right after they are read, and report failures the same way as
every other binary_reader error (parse_error.113), so allow_exceptions
and strict discarding behave consistently. get_binary()/binary blob reads
are untouched and still accept arbitrary bytes, since only text strings
are required to be UTF-8.
There were two independent implementations of a UTF-8 validator: the
lexer's streaming scanner, and the serializer's Hoehrmann DFA used by
dump_escaped_impl(). Rather than write a third, the serializer's decode()
function, its utf8d table and the UTF8_ACCEPT/UTF8_REJECT constants are
extracted into detail/string_utils.hpp (a low-level header already
included before both detail/input/ and detail/output/), alongside a new
is_valid_utf8() helper built on the same decode() step. serializer.hpp's
dump_escaped_impl() now calls the shared decode(), so there is exactly
one UTF-8 validator in the codebase; dump()'s exact type_error.316
messages and byte-index reporting are unchanged (see the added
regression-guard test in unit-serialization.cpp).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N4RQ1Ahan5YAGbnAQGjZTY
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* ⚡ validate only newly read bytes of binary-format strings
get_string() validated the whole result after each call, but get_bytes()
appends to it and CBOR indefinite-length strings collect all chunks in
the same result, so every chunk re-validated everything read before it.
An input of many small chunks took quadratic time (80000 one-byte chunks,
160 KB of input, took about 7 seconds). Only the newly read bytes are
validated now, which also matches RFC 8949's requirement that every
chunk is valid UTF-8 on its own.
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Fix CBOR tag handlers not recognizing tags 0-5 and 21-23
The tagged-item switch in binary_reader::parse_cbor_internal() only handled
head bytes 0xC6-0xD4 and 0xD8-0xDB. Bytes 0xC0-0xC5 (tags 0-5: date/time,
epoch, bignum, decimal, bigfloat) and 0xD5-0xD7 (tags 21-23: base64url,
base64, base16 conversion hints) fell through to the default case and were
reported as invalid bytes, even under cbor_tag_handler_t::ignore and ::store,
despite being valid CBOR major-type-6 tags per RFC 8949.
Add the missing case labels so the full 0xC0-0xDB range is handled
uniformly. Extend the "Tagged values" test in unit-cbor.cpp to cover
0xC0-0xD7, and update the CBOR docs to state the corrected tag range.
Fixes#5315
Signed-off-by: sahilkamate03 <45514385+sahilkamate03@users.noreply.github.com>
* Fix stale CBOR tag docs and add store-mode binary-payload test
The "Incomplete mapping" warning still listed tags 0-5 (date/time,
bignum, decimal fraction, bigfloat) and 21-23 (expected conversions)
as unsupported, even though they now parse correctly under
cbor_tag_handler_t::ignore/store, same as 0xC6..0xD4/0xD8..0xDB.
Remove those five bullets and cross-reference the "Tagged items"
warning below, matching the equivalent docs fix landed independently
in PR #5367.
Also add a cbor_tag_handler_t::store test that wraps a binary
payload (not just a string) for every byte in 0xC0..0xD7, confirming
these tags are unwrapped the same way as 0xC6..0xD4 rather than
mistaken for the 0xD8..0xDB binary-subtype marker syntax, per review
feedback on #5331.
Signed-off-by: sahilkamate03 <45514385+sahilkamate03@users.noreply.github.com>
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Signed-off-by: sahilkamate03 <45514385+sahilkamate03@users.noreply.github.com>
* 📝 Fix documentation gaps for 3.13.0 release (todos 138-142)
- Todo 138: Add "Known issues" section to modules.md with compiler-specific troubleshooting (GCC redefinition, MSVC symbol export). Add pointer note to quality_assurance.md.
- Todo 139: Document CBOR/MessagePack half-precision float encoding for NaN/Infinity (0xF9/0xCA with exact byte sequences). Explain pre-3.13.0 double-precision bug mechanism without issue citations.
- Todo 140: Document CBOR negative-integer-overflow rejection (parse_error.112) for magnitudes exceeding int64_t range (already implemented in rev 1).
- Todo 141: Update version history in value.md and operator[].md with behavior-change details, removing issue citations per citation policy (prose is self-contained).
- Todo 142: Global sed replace of 3.12.x → 3.13.0 placeholder across all 20 documentation files.
Revision 2 incorporates feedback to reduce changelog-like issue citations. Only citations that add unique troubleshooting value are retained (#5103 for GCC workaround, #3970 for MSVC symbol export). "Known issues" section follows PR #5252's visual pattern (info admonition with bold-bullet format).
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
* 📝 Document integer type selection, type_name() invalid value, and std::optional get() fix
- number_handling.md: clarify that positive/negative integers select
unsigned/signed storage based on the leading minus sign (todo 143).
- type_name.md: document the new "invalid" return value for corrupted
JSON values (todo 145).
- get.md: note that get<std::optional<T>>() was unreachable in every
configuration prior to 3.13.0 due to an internal macro-guard bug,
unrelated to JSON_USE_IMPLICIT_CONVERSIONS's actual effect (todo 144).
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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