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Unclear error message: "cannot use operator[] with a string argument with array" #2047

@nickwebha

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@nickwebha
  • Describe what you want to achieve.
    Send array of arrays over a network connection.

  • Describe what you tried.
    On the server:

nlohmann::json jsonMessageOut;
jsonMessageOut[ "action" ] = "updateUnits";

databaseResults R = database.query( "SELECT \"longitude\", \"latitude\" FROM \"units.lonlat\" LIMIT 10;" );
if ( R.size() > 0 ) {
	std::vector< std::pair< double, double > > units;
	for ( const auto& unit : R )
		units.push_back( { unit[ 0 ].as< double >(), unit[ 1 ].as< double >() } );

	jsonMessageOut[ "units" ] = units;
}
else
	jsonMessageOut[ "units" ] = nlohmann::json::array();

[send]

On the client:

while ( ! ( jsonMessageIn = websocketGetMessageInbound() ).empty() ) {	// TODO Look into pushing these into the SDL event queue.
	const std::string action = jsonMessageIn[ "action" ];

	switch ( networkStringValues[ action ] ) {
		...

		case networkActionUpdateUnits: {
			std::vector< std::pair< double, double > > units = jsonMessageIn[ "units" ];

			for ( const auto& unit : units )
				std::cout << unit.first << "x" << unit.second << std::endl;
		}

		...
	}
}
  • Describe what happens instead.
    [[98.02922343358784,-71.97847384808085],[-63.31191659209324,-35.374567995631736],[-110.474999892986,-6.113705884129388],[69.75989939459609,67.16343799507328],[2.3197853267517132,81.05544938056028],[40.16905596844069,80.41366385334712],[-87.83292780117719,-7.74048656814756],[-93.33958934205057,-76.02122165690062],[-23.417427851405677,51.76305532126719],[32.21544673426408,83.85006816965088]] [json.exception.type_error.305] cannot use operator[] with a string argument with array

It seems strange to me that I can see the correct response in the error message but not access it like I would any other array.

  • Describe which system (OS, compiler) you are using.
    Emscripten v1.39.10/Clang v8.0.0-3

  • Describe which version of the library you are using (release version, develop branch).
    Release v3.7.3

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