nlohmann / nlohmann/json

[GLD Serializer Benchmark] C++ nlohmann_bson 3.12.0 — spec compliance misses

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Description

Hi — this is a friendly report from the GLD Serializer Benchmark, an independent multi-language suite that times serializers and checks them against the published format specs (RFC 8259, YAML 1.2, …).

We measured nlohmann_bson 3.12.0 on C++. The suite recorded spec-profile misses for this pin. The catalog is report-only: a miss is not a CI failure, and some cases are older or stricter profiles (for example RFC 4627 vs RFC 8259) rather than a crash.

Compliance results (please start here)

This link opens the live heatmap on C++ with nlohmann_bson already selected (All standards). Click a scored cell for each FAIL and the cited spec paragraph:

https://leo-gan.github.io/GLD.SerializerBenchmark/dashboard/#compliance/cpp/nlohmann_bson

How the catalog is built, and how to read a FAIL line:

I am not pasting the case list here so you can use the Dashboard (filters, heatmap, and spec links) rather than a static dump.

Optional: one standard family only — #compliance/cpp/nlohmann_bson/json (or yaml, cbor, …).

Benchmark timings (same pin)

The same suite also publishes encode / decode time and payload size for this library on C++:

https://leo-gan.github.io/GLD.SerializerBenchmark/dashboard/?lang=cpp&data=document@n=1&mode=bytes#dashboard

Details table (this library pre-selected):

https://leo-gan.github.io/GLD.SerializerBenchmark/dashboard/?lang=cpp&ser=nlohmann_bson&data=document@n=1&mode=bytes#detailed-analytics

That page is the live L1 snapshot, not a claim that one library is “best.”

Ask

Please look at the Compliance view for nlohmann_bson. If a miss is a real decoder/encoder bug you want to fix, great. If it is an intentional default (accepting NaN, YAML 1.1 bools, …), a short note here is enough — we will keep the catalog as-is unless the library’s documented contract changes.

Thanks for the library.

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with the Compliance dashboard for C++ nlohmann_bson and click each FAIL cell to inspect its cited specification paragraph. Read the compliance overview and reading-results guide, then determine whether each miss is a real defect or an intentional default; done means documenting that decision or identifying a concrete fix and regression coverage.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
backend-api-design
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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