error: std::string is not declared

[margaretselzer]

Description I have a rather complex Arduino project where I use ArduinoJson. When using version 6.19.4 the code compiled without any problems. We have updated now to ArduinoJson 6.21.3 and get build errors. The first build error is "/ArduinoJson/Variant/ConverterImpl.hpp:283:51: error: 'std::string' has not been declared" and then as a result there is a massive number of other errors. The problem can be fixed by including <string> before ArduinoJson.h, however I believe that the ArduinoJson library should be able to manage its own dependencies.

I propose a fix in the "Reproduction Code" section.

Troubleshooter's report

1. The issue happens at compile time
2. The error is not in the list

Environment

• Microcontroller: Arduino Due
• Core/Framework: https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-sam, version: 1.6.12
• IDE: VS Code 1.81.1 / PlatformIO Core, version 6.1.11

Reproduction code

/***********************************************/
/* This is a suggestion for fixing the problem */
/*                                             */
/* Modify Configuration.hpp as per below       */
/***********************************************/

// Support std::string
#ifndef ARDUINOJSON_ENABLE_STD_STRING
#  ifdef __has_include
#    if __has_include(<string>) && !defined(min) && !defined(max)
#      include <string>
#      define ARDUINOJSON_ENABLE_STD_STRING 1
#    else
#      define ARDUINOJSON_ENABLE_STD_STRING 0
#    endif
#  else
#    ifdef ARDUINO
#      define ARDUINOJSON_ENABLE_STD_STRING 0
#    else
#      define ARDUINOJSON_ENABLE_STD_STRING 1
#    endif
#  endif
#endif

Remarks I suggest to do the same for <string_view> and any other STL type used by ArduinoJson.

[bblanchon]

Hi @margaretselzer,

Thank you very much for reporting this bug 👍 It's fixed in the 6.x branch.

Best regards, Benoit

[bblanchon]

The fix was published with ArduinoJson 6.21.4.