JSON for Modern C++  3.0.1

◆ unflatten()

template<template< typename, typename, typename... > class ObjectType = std::map, template< typename, typename... > class ArrayType = std::vector, class StringType = std::string, class BooleanType = bool, class NumberIntegerType = std::int64_t, class NumberUnsignedType = std::uint64_t, class NumberFloatType = double, template< typename > class AllocatorType = std::allocator, template< typename, typename=void > class JSONSerializer = adl_serializer>
basic_json nlohmann::basic_json::unflatten ( ) const
inline

The function restores the arbitrary nesting of a JSON value that has been flattened before using the flatten() function. The JSON value must meet certain constraints:

  1. The value must be an object.
  2. The keys must be JSON pointers (see RFC 6901)
  3. The mapped values must be primitive JSON types.
Returns
the original JSON from a flattened version
Note
Empty objects and arrays are flattened by flatten() to null values and can not unflattened to their original type. Apart from this example, for a JSON value j, the following is always true: j == j.flatten().unflatten().
Complexity Linear in the size the JSON value.
Exceptions
type_error.314if value is not an object
type_error.315if object values are not primitive
Example The following code shows how a flattened JSON object is
unflattened into the original nested JSON object.
1 #include <iostream>
2 #include "json.hpp"
3 
4 using json = nlohmann::json;
5 
6 int main()
7 {
8  // create JSON value
9  json j_flattened =
10  {
11  {"/answer/everything", 42},
12  {"/happy", true},
13  {"/list/0", 1},
14  {"/list/1", 0},
15  {"/list/2", 2},
16  {"/name", "Niels"},
17  {"/nothing", nullptr},
18  {"/object/currency", "USD"},
19  {"/object/value", 42.99},
20  {"/pi", 3.141}
21  };
22 
23  // call unflatten()
24  std::cout << std::setw(4) << j_flattened.unflatten() << '\n';
25 }
basic_json<> json
default JSON class
Definition: json.hpp:14379

Output (play with this example online):
{
    "answer": {
        "everything": 42
    },
    "happy": true,
    "list": [
        1,
        0,
        2
    ],
    "name": "Niels",
    "nothing": null,
    "object": {
        "currency": "USD",
        "value": 42.99
    },
    "pi": 3.141
}

The example code above can be translated with
g++ -std=c++11 -Isrc doc/examples/unflatten.cpp -o unflatten 
See also
flatten() for the reverse function
Since
version 2.0.0

Definition at line 13881 of file json.hpp.