JSON for Modern C++  2.1.1
template<template< typename U, typename V, typename...Args > class ObjectType = std::map, template< typename U, typename...Args > class ArrayType = std::vector, class StringType = std::string, class BooleanType = bool, class NumberIntegerType = std::int64_t, class NumberUnsignedType = std::uint64_t, class NumberFloatType = double, template< typename U > class AllocatorType = std::allocator, template< typename T, typename SFINAE=void > class JSONSerializer = adl_serializer>
iterator nlohmann::basic_json::begin ( )
inlinenoexcept

Returns an iterator to the first element.

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Illustration from cppreference.com
Returns
iterator to the first element
Complexity
Constant.
Requirements
This function helps basic_json satisfying the Container requirements:
  • The complexity is constant.
Example
The following code shows an example for begin().
1 #include <json.hpp>
2 
3 using json = nlohmann::json;
4 
5 int main()
6 {
7  // create an array value
8  json array = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
9 
10  // get am iterator to the first element
11  json::iterator it = array.begin();
12 
13  // serialize the element that the iterator points to
14  std::cout << *it << '\n';
15 }
iter_impl< basic_json > iterator
an iterator for a basic_json container
Definition: json.hpp:1088
basic_json<> json
default JSON class
Definition: json.hpp:12369
Output (play with this example online):
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The example code above can be translated with
g++ -std=c++11 -Isrc doc/examples/begin.cpp -o begin 
See also
cbegin() – returns a const iterator to the beginning
end() – returns an iterator to the end
cend() – returns a const iterator to the end
Since
version 1.0.0

Definition at line 4670 of file json.hpp.