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Niels Lohmann f23b3c63a2 Add AST-based public API checker and fix documentation gaps it found (#3691)
Adds tools/api_checker/: extract_api.py derives the public API surface directly
from the libclang AST (independent of documentation status), check_docs.py flags
public entries missing @sa links (and @sa on non-public ones), diff_api.py does
an overload-aware breaking/feature diff between two refs, check_macros.py cross-
checks documented macros against #define sites, and snapshot_release.py backfills
immutable per-release surface snapshots into tools/api_checker/history/ (v3.1.0
through v3.12.0) so diff_api.py can compare releases without live extraction.
POLICY.md documents what counts as public API and what stability is guaranteed.

Running this tooling against the current tree found and fixed a real documentation
backlog: ~25 new API doc pages (ordered_map's methods, json_sax's ctor/dtor/
operator=, byte_container_with_subtype's comparison operators, several orphaned
type aliases), each with a compiled and output-verified example, plus missing
@sa comments and stale/incorrect Version History entries on several existing
pages (found by diffing consecutive release pairs and checking whether the
resulting change was actually reflected in the target page's history section).

Also adds docs/home/api_changes.md, a per-release, per-function reference of
public API changes (v3.1.0 through v3.12.0) generated from the history/
snapshots, complementing (not replacing) the existing release notes.

Along the way, found and fixed several extractor bugs by testing against real
release tags rather than trusting the algorithm in isolation -- most notably an
identity-key scheme based on libclang's USR that encoded the enclosing class
template's own arity, and a since-renamed ABI inline-namespace pattern
(json_v3_11_0 vs. today's json_abi_v3_11_2) that neither of two earlier regex
attempts stripped correctly. Both are documented in extract_api.py's docstrings
and tools/api_checker/history/README.md so the failure mode doesn't recur
silently.

.github/workflows/check_api_docs.yml runs extract_api.py + check_docs.py in CI,
advisory-only for now (documented backlog may not be at zero for entities this
PR didn't touch), plus a blocking drift check on the committed
tools/api_checker/api_surface.json.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-07-11 18:59:00 +02:00

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# <small>nlohmann::</small>ordered_json
```cpp
using ordered_json = basic_json<ordered_map>;
```
This type preserves the insertion order of object keys.
## Iterator invalidation
The type is based on [`ordered_map`](ordered_map/index.md) which in turn uses a `std::vector` to store object elements.
Therefore, adding object elements can yield a reallocation in which case all iterators (including the
[`end()`](basic_json/end.md) iterator) and all references to the elements are invalidated. Also, any iterator or
reference after the insertion point will point to the same index, which is now a different value.
## Examples
??? example
The example below demonstrates how `ordered_json` preserves the insertion order of object keys.
```cpp
--8<-- "examples/ordered_json.cpp"
```
Output:
```json
--8<-- "examples/ordered_json.output"
```
## See also
- [ordered_map](ordered_map/index.md)
- [Object Order](../features/object_order.md)
## Version history
Since version 3.9.0.