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    Copyright (c) 2019 Vinnie Falco (vinnie.falco@gmail.com)
    Copyright (c) 2020 Krystian Stasiowski (sdkrystian@gmail.com)

    Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying
    file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

    Official repository: https://github.com/cppalliance/json
]

[section Overview]
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Boost.JSON is a portable C++ library which provides containers and
algorithms that implement
[@https://json.org/ JavaScript Object Notation], or simply "JSON",
a lightweight data-interchange format. This format is easy for humans to
read and write, and easy for machines to parse and generate. It is based
on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language
([@https://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/10.0/index.html Standard ECMA-262]).
JSON is a text format that is language-independent but uses conventions
that are familiar to programmers of the C-family of languages, including
C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and many others. These
properties make JSON an ideal data-interchange language.

This library focuses on a common and popular use-case: parsing
and serializing to and from a container called __value__ which
holds JSON types. Any __value__ which you build can be serialized
and then deserialized, guaranteeing that the result will be equal
to the original value. Whatever JSON output you produce with this
library will be readable by most common JSON implementations
in any language.

The __value__ container is designed to be well suited as a
vocabulary type appropriate for use in public interfaces and
libraries, allowing them to be composed. The library restricts
the representable data types to the ranges which are almost
universally accepted by most JSON implementations, especially
JavaScript. The parser and serializer are both highly performant,
meeting or exceeding the benchmark performance of the best comparable
libraries. Allocators are very well supported. Code which uses these
types will be easy to understand, flexible, and performant.

Boost.JSON offers these features:

* Fast compilation
* Require only C++11
* Fast streaming parser and serializer
* Constant-time key lookup for objects
* Options to allow non-standard JSON
* Easy and safe modern API with allocator support
* Optional header-only, without linking to a library

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[section Requirements]

* Requires only C++11
* Link to a built static or dynamic Boost library, or use header-only (see below)
* Supports -fno-exceptions, detected automatically

The library relies heavily on these well known C++ types in
its interfaces (henceforth termed ['standard types]):

* __string_view__
* __memory_resource__, __polymorphic_allocator__
* __error_category__, __error_code__, __error_condition__, __system_error__

[heading Header-Only]

To use as header-only; that is, to eliminate the requirement to
link a program to a static or dynamic Boost.JSON library, simply
place the following line in exactly one new or existing source
file in your project.
```
#include <boost/json/src.hpp>
```

[heading Embedded]

Boost.JSON works great on embedded devices. The library uses local
stack buffers to increase the performance of some operations. On
Intel platforms these buffers are large (4KB), while on non-Intel
platforms they are small (256 bytes). To adjust the size of the
stack buffers for embedded applications define this macro when
building the library or including the function definitions:
```
#define BOOST_JSON_STACK_BUFFER_SIZE 1024
#include <boost/json/src.hpp>
```

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[section Supported Compilers]

Boost.JSON has been tested with the following compilers:

* clang: 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
* gcc: 4.8, 4.9, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
* msvc: 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3

[h3 Quality Assurance]

The development infrastructure for the library includes
these per-commit analyses:

* Coverage reports
* Benchmark performance comparisons
* Compilation and tests on Drone.io, Azure Pipelines, Appveyor
* Fuzzing using clang-llvm and machine learning

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[section Security Review (Bishop Fox)]

As part of our commitment to producing the very finest C++ libraries that
application developers can trust, the C++ Alliance has commissioned Bishop
Fox to perform a security audit of the Boost.JSON library. The report
is linked here:

[@https://cppalliance.org/pdf/C%20Plus%20Plus%20Alliance%20-%20Boost%20JSON%20Security%20Assessment%202020%20-%20Assessment%20Report%20-%2020210317.pdf C Plus Plus Alliance - Boost JSON Security Assessment 2020 - Assessment Report - 20210317]

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[h1 Credits]

This library wouldn't be where it is today without the help of
[@https://github.com/pdimov Peter Dimov]
for design advice and optimization assistance.

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