examples/error_handler_t.cpp

#include <iostream>
#include <nlohmann/json.hpp>

using json = nlohmann::json;

int main()
{
    // create JSON value with invalid UTF-8 byte sequence
    json j_invalid = "ä\xA9ü";
    try
    {
        std::cout << j_invalid.dump() << std::endl;
    }
    catch (const json::type_error& e)
    {
        std::cout << e.what() << std::endl;
    }

    std::cout << "string with replaced invalid characters: "
              << j_invalid.dump(-1, ' ', false, json::error_handler_t::replace)
              << "\nstring with ignored invalid characters: "
              << j_invalid.dump(-1, ' ', false, json::error_handler_t::ignore)
              << "\nstring with the invalid byte kept as is (" << j_invalid.dump(-1, ' ', false, json::error_handler_t::keep).size()
              << " bytes, not valid UTF-8 itself)\n";
}