including another file

[RiccardoRossi]

• Describe what you want to achieve.

I would like to include another json file within my json. Is there a way of doing it?

• Describe what you tried.

the schema syntax would be something like

$ref:"/path/to/my/file.json"

• Describe which system (OS, compiler) you are using.
  any

• Describe which version of the library you are using (release version, develop branch).
  latest

[dota17]

This library didn't support Json Reference now, so I'm afraid it can't do that.

[RiccardoRossi]

ok, provided that we implement it within our wrapper around nlohmann (so that is it not an implementation problem) could u hint about what would be the "jsonic" way of achieving what we seek?

I mean, implementing our own special handling of "$ref" would be a good choice or should we go for a different approach to be able to include one json inside the other

[nlohmann]

@dota17 is right, the library does not support this.

[RiccardoRossi]

Dear @nlohmann @dota17 i appreciate that (i also read it in your docs).

We have a wrapper on the top of your lib which allows us to implement extra stuff. I was asking for a hint of what you think should be the best strategy to achieve it, not from a programming point of view but rather from a "json-organizational" point of view.

[nlohmann]

You could do it either inside the parser writing your own SAX interface or you do it as post processing step after parsing. For the former, you may want to have a look at the json_sax_dom_parser (https:/nlohmann/json/blob/develop/include/nlohmann/detail/input/json_sax.hpp#L145) parser. With some work, you should be able to add the required logic to replace $ref values.