JSON for Modern C++  3.8.0

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bool nlohmann::basic_json::contains ( const json_pointer &  ptr) const
inline

Check whether the given JSON pointer ptr can be resolved in the current JSON value.

Note
This method can be executed on any JSON value type.
Parameters
[in]ptrJSON pointer to check its existence.
Returns
true if the JSON pointer can be resolved to a stored value, false otherwise.
Postcondition
If j.contains(ptr) returns true, it is safe to call j[ptr].
Exceptions
parse_error.106if an array index begins with '0'
parse_error.109if an array index was not a number
Complexity
Logarithmic in the size of the JSON object.
Example
The following code shows an example for contains().
1 #include <iostream>
2 #include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
3 
4 using json = nlohmann::json;
5 
6 int main()
7 {
8  // create a JSON value
9  json j =
10  {
11  {"number", 1}, {"string", "foo"}, {"array", {1, 2}}
12  };
13 
14  std::cout << std::boolalpha
15  << j.contains("/number"_json_pointer) << '\n'
16  << j.contains("/string"_json_pointer) << '\n'
17  << j.contains("/array"_json_pointer) << '\n'
18  << j.contains("/array/1"_json_pointer) << '\n'
19  << j.contains("/array/-"_json_pointer) << '\n'
20  << j.contains("/array/4"_json_pointer) << '\n'
21  << j.contains("/baz"_json_pointer) << std::endl;
22 
23  try
24  {
25  // try to use an array index with leading '0'
26  j.contains("/array/01"_json_pointer);
27  }
28  catch (json::parse_error& e)
29  {
30  std::cout << e.what() << '\n';
31  }
32 
33  try
34  {
35  // try to use an array index that is not a number
36  j.contains("/array/one"_json_pointer);
37  }
38  catch (json::parse_error& e)
39  {
40  std::cout << e.what() << '\n';
41  }
42 }

Output (play with this example online):
true
true
true
true
false
false
false
The example code above can be translated with
g++ -std=c++11 -Isingle_include doc/examples/contains_json_pointer.cpp -o contains_json_pointer 
See also
contains(KeyT &&) const – checks the existence of a key
Since
version 3.7.0

Definition at line 20837 of file json.hpp.

nlohmann::basic_json::parse_error
detail::parse_error parse_error
exception indicating a parse error
Definition: json.hpp:16641
nlohmann::json
basic_json<> json
default JSON class
Definition: json.hpp:2933