basic_json::dump

string_t dump(const int indent = -1,
              const char indent_char = ' ',
              const bool ensure_ascii = false,
              const error_handler_t error_handler = error_handler_t::strict) const

Serialization function for JSON values. The function tries to mimic Python's json.dumps() function, and currently supports its indent and ensure_ascii parameters.

Parameters

indent (in): If indent is nonnegative, then array elements and object members will be pretty-printed with that indent level. An indent level of 0 will only insert newlines. -1 (the default) selects the most compact representation.
indent_char (in): The character to use for indentation if indent is greater than 0. The default is (space).
ensure_ascii (in): If ensure_ascii is true, all non-ASCII characters in the output are escaped with \uXXXX sequences, and the result consists of ASCII characters only.
error_handler (in): how to react on decoding errors; there are three possible values: strict (throws and exception in case a decoding error occurs; default), replace (replace invalid UTF-8 sequences with U+FFFD), and ignore (ignore invalid UTF-8 sequences during serialization; all bytes are copied to the output unchanged).

Return value

string containing the serialization of the JSON value

Exception safety

Strong guarantee: if an exception is thrown, there are no changes to any JSON value.

Complexity

Linear.

Notes

Binary values are serialized as object containing two keys:

"bytes": an array of bytes as integers
"subtype": the subtype as integer or #!json null if the binary has no subtype

Example

The following example shows the effect of different indent, indent_char, and ensure_ascii parameters to the result of the serialization.

--8<-- "examples/dump.cpp"

Output:

--8<-- "examples/dump.output"

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