// (1)
template<typename InputType>
static basic_json parse(InputType&& i,
const parser_callback_t cb = nullptr,
const bool allow_exceptions = true,
const bool ignore_comments = false);
// (2)
template<typename IteratorType>
static basic_json parse(IteratorType first, IteratorType last,
const parser_callback_t cb = nullptr,
const bool allow_exceptions = true,
const bool ignore_comments = false);-
Deserialize from a compatible input.
-
Deserialize from a pair of character iterators
The
value_typeof the iterator must be an integral type with size of 1, 2 or 4 bytes, which will be interpreted respectively as UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32.
InputType
: A compatible input, for instance:
- an `std::istream` object
- a `FILE` pointer (must not be null)
- a C-style array of characters
- a pointer to a null-terminated string of single byte characters
- a `std::string`
- an object `obj` for which `begin(obj)` and `end(obj)` produces a valid pair of iterators.
IteratorType
: a compatible iterator type, for instance.
- a pair of `std::string::iterator` or `std::vector<std::uint8_t>::iterator`
- a pair of pointers such as `ptr` and `ptr + len`
i (in)
: Input to parse from.
cb (in)
: a parser callback function of type parser_callback_t which is used to control the
deserialization by filtering unwanted values (optional)
allow_exceptions (in)
: whether to throw exceptions in case of a parse error (optional, #!cpp true by default)
ignore_comments (in)
: whether comments should be ignored and treated like whitespace (#!cpp true) or yield a parse error
(#!cpp false); (optional, #!cpp false by default)
first (in)
: iterator to start of character range
last (in)
: iterator to end of character range
Deserialized JSON value; in case of a parse error and allow_exceptions set to #!cpp false, the return value will be
value_t::discarded. The latter can be checked with is_discarded.
Strong guarantee: if an exception is thrown, there are no changes in the JSON value.
- Throws
parse_error.101in case of an unexpected token. - Throws
parse_error.102if to_unicode fails or surrogate error. - Throws
parse_error.103if to_unicode fails.
Linear in the length of the input. The parser is a predictive LL(1) parser. The complexity can be higher if the parser
callback function cb or reading from (1) the input i or (2) the iterator range [first, last] has a
super-linear complexity.
(1) A UTF-8 byte order mark is silently ignored.
!!! danger "Runtime assertion"
The precondition that a passed `#!cpp FILE` pointer must not be null is enforced with a
[runtime assertion](../../features/assertions.md).
??? example "Parsing from a character array"
The example below demonstrates the `parse()` function reading from an array.
```cpp
--8<-- "examples/parse__array__parser_callback_t.cpp"
```
Output:
```json
--8<-- "examples/parse__array__parser_callback_t.output"
```
??? example "Parsing from a string"
The example below demonstrates the `parse()` function with and without callback function.
```cpp
--8<-- "examples/parse__string__parser_callback_t.cpp"
```
Output:
```json
--8<-- "examples/parse__string__parser_callback_t.output"
```
??? example "Parsing from an input stream"
The example below demonstrates the `parse()` function with and without callback function.
```cpp
--8<-- "examples/parse__istream__parser_callback_t.cpp"
```
Output:
```json
--8<-- "examples/parse__istream__parser_callback_t.output"
```
??? example "Parsing from a contiguous container"
The example below demonstrates the `parse()` function reading from a contiguous container.
```cpp
--8<-- "examples/parse__contiguouscontainer__parser_callback_t.cpp"
```
Output:
```json
--8<-- "examples/parse__contiguouscontainer__parser_callback_t.output"
```
??? example "Parsing from a non null-terminated string"
The example below demonstrates the `parse()` function reading from a string that is not null-terminated.
```cpp
--8<-- "examples/parse__pointers.cpp"
```
Output:
```json
--8<-- "examples/parse__pointers.output"
```
??? example "Parsing from an iterator pair"
The example below demonstrates the `parse()` function reading from an iterator pair.
```cpp
--8<-- "examples/parse__iterator_pair.cpp"
```
Output:
```json
--8<-- "examples/parse__iterator_pair.output"
```
??? example "Effect of allow_exceptions parameter"
The example below demonstrates the effect of the `allow_exceptions` parameter in the ´parse()` function.
```cpp
--8<-- "examples/parse__allow_exceptions.cpp"
```
Output:
```json
--8<-- "examples/parse__allow_exceptions.output"
```
- accept - check if the input is valid JSON
- operator>> - deserialize from stream
- Added in version 1.0.0.
- Overload for contiguous containers (1) added in version 2.0.3.
- Ignoring comments via
ignore_commentsadded in version 3.9.0.
!!! warning "Deprecation"
Overload (2) replaces calls to `parse` with a pair of iterators as their first parameter which has been
deprecated in version 3.8.0. This overload will be removed in version 4.0.0. Please replace all calls like
`#!cpp parse({ptr, ptr+len}, ...);` with `#!cpp parse(ptr, ptr+len, ...);`.
You should be warned by your compiler with a `-Wdeprecated-declarations` warning if you are using a deprecated
function.