Adding upstream version 252.22.upstream/252.22

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

1 files changed, 4797 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/shared/json.c b/src/shared/json.c
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+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later */
+
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <locale.h>
+#include <stdarg.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+
+#include "sd-messages.h"
+
+#include "alloc-util.h"
+#include "errno-util.h"
+#include "escape.h"
+#include "fd-util.h"
+#include "fileio.h"
+#include "float.h"
+#include "hexdecoct.h"
+#include "json-internal.h"
+#include "json.h"
+#include "macro.h"
+#include "math-util.h"
+#include "memory-util.h"
+#include "string-table.h"
+#include "string-util.h"
+#include "strv.h"
+#include "terminal-util.h"
+#include "user-util.h"
+#include "utf8.h"
+
+/* Refuse putting together variants with a larger depth than 2K by default (as a protection against overflowing stacks
+ * if code processes JSON objects recursively. Note that we store the depth in an uint16_t, hence make sure this
+ * remains under 2^16.
+ *
+ * The value first was 16k, but it was discovered to be too high on llvm/x86-64. See also:
+ * https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/10738
+ *
+ * The value then was 4k, but it was discovered to be too high on s390x/aarch64. See also:
+ * https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/14396 */
+
+#define DEPTH_MAX (2U*1024U)
+assert_cc(DEPTH_MAX <= UINT16_MAX);
+
+typedef struct JsonSource {
+        /* When we parse from a file or similar, encodes the filename, to indicate the source of a json variant */
+        unsigned n_ref;
+        unsigned max_line;
+        unsigned max_column;
+        char name[];
+} JsonSource;
+
+/* On x86-64 this whole structure should have a size of 6 * 64 bit = 48 bytes */
+struct JsonVariant {
+        union {
+                /* We either maintain a reference counter for this variant itself, or we are embedded into an
+                 * array/object, in which case only that surrounding object is ref-counted. (If 'embedded' is false,
+                 * see below.) */
+                unsigned n_ref;
+
+                /* If this JsonVariant is part of an array/object, then this field points to the surrounding
+                 * JSON_VARIANT_ARRAY/JSON_VARIANT_OBJECT object. (If 'embedded' is true, see below.) */
+                JsonVariant *parent;
+        };
+
+        /* If this was parsed from some file or buffer, this stores where from, as well as the source line/column */
+        JsonSource *source;
+        unsigned line, column;
+
+        /* The current 'depth' of the JsonVariant, i.e. how many levels of member variants this has */
+        uint16_t depth;
+
+        JsonVariantType type:8;
+
+        /* A marker whether this variant is embedded into in array/object or not. If true, the 'parent' pointer above
+         * is valid. If false, the 'n_ref' field above is valid instead. */
+        bool is_embedded:1;
+
+        /* In some conditions (for example, if this object is part of an array of strings or objects), we don't store
+         * any data inline, but instead simply reference an external object and act as surrogate of it. In that case
+         * this bool is set, and the external object is referenced through the .reference field below. */
+        bool is_reference:1;
+
+        /* While comparing two arrays, we use this for marking what we already have seen */
+        bool is_marked:1;
+
+        /* Erase from memory when freeing */
+        bool sensitive:1;
+
+        /* If this is an object the fields are strictly ordered by name */
+        bool sorted:1;
+
+        /* If in addition to this object all objects referenced by it are also ordered strictly by name */
+        bool normalized:1;
+
+        union {
+                /* For simple types we store the value in-line. */
+                JsonValue value;
+
+                /* For objects and arrays we store the number of elements immediately following */
+                size_t n_elements;
+
+                /* If is_reference as indicated above is set, this is where the reference object is actually stored. */
+                JsonVariant *reference;
+
+                /* Strings are placed immediately after the structure. Note that when this is a JsonVariant embedded
+                 * into an array we might encode strings up to INLINE_STRING_LENGTH characters directly inside the
+                 * element, while longer strings are stored as references. When this object is not embedded into an
+                 * array, but stand-alone we allocate the right size for the whole structure, i.e. the array might be
+                 * much larger than INLINE_STRING_LENGTH.
+                 *
+                 * Note that because we want to allocate arrays of the JsonVariant structure we specify [0] here,
+                 * rather than the prettier []. If we wouldn't, then this char array would have undefined size, and so
+                 * would the union and then the struct this is included in. And of structures with undefined size we
+                 * can't allocate arrays (at least not easily). */
+                char string[0];
+        };
+};
+
+/* Inside string arrays we have a series of JsonVariant structures one after the other. In this case, strings longer
+ * than INLINE_STRING_MAX are stored as references, and all shorter ones inline. (This means — on x86-64 — strings up
+ * to 7 chars are stored within the array elements, and all others in separate allocations) */
+#define INLINE_STRING_MAX (sizeof(JsonVariant) - offsetof(JsonVariant, string) - 1U)
+
+/* Let's make sure this structure isn't increased in size accidentally. This check is only for our most relevant arch
+ * (x86-64). */
+#if defined(__x86_64__) && __SIZEOF_POINTER__ == 8
+assert_cc(sizeof(JsonVariant) == 40U);
+assert_cc(INLINE_STRING_MAX == 7U);
+#endif
+
+static JsonSource* json_source_new(const char *name) {
+        JsonSource *s;
+
+        assert(name);
+
+        s = malloc(offsetof(JsonSource, name) + strlen(name) + 1);
+        if (!s)
+                return NULL;
+
+        *s = (JsonSource) {
+                .n_ref = 1,
+        };
+        strcpy(s->name, name);
+
+        return s;
+}
+
+DEFINE_PRIVATE_TRIVIAL_REF_UNREF_FUNC(JsonSource, json_source, mfree);
+
+static bool json_source_equal(JsonSource *a, JsonSource *b) {
+        if (a == b)
+                return true;
+
+        if (!a || !b)
+                return false;
+
+        return streq(a->name, b->name);
+}
+
+DEFINE_TRIVIAL_CLEANUP_FUNC(JsonSource*, json_source_unref);
+
+/* There are four kind of JsonVariant* pointers:
+ *
+ *    1. NULL
+ *    2. A 'regular' one, i.e. pointing to malloc() memory
+ *    3. A 'magic' one, i.e. one of the special JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_XYZ values, that encode a few very basic values directly in the pointer.
+ *    4. A 'const string' one, i.e. a pointer to a const string.
+ *
+ * The four kinds of pointers can be discerned like this:
+ *
+ *    Detecting #1 is easy, just compare with NULL. Detecting #3 is similarly easy: all magic pointers are below
+ *    _JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_MAX (which is pretty low, within the first memory page, which is special on Linux and other
+ *    OSes, as it is a faulting page). In order to discern #2 and #4 we check the lowest bit. If it's off it's #2,
+ *    otherwise #4. This makes use of the fact that malloc() will return "maximum aligned" memory, which definitely
+ *    means the pointer is even. This means we can use the uneven pointers to reference static strings, as long as we
+ *    make sure that all static strings used like this are aligned to 2 (or higher), and that we mask the bit on
+ *    access. The JSON_VARIANT_STRING_CONST() macro encodes strings as JsonVariant* pointers, with the bit set. */
+
+static bool json_variant_is_magic(const JsonVariant *v) {
+        if (!v)
+                return false;
+
+        return v < _JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_MAX;
+}
+
+static bool json_variant_is_const_string(const JsonVariant *v) {
+
+        if (v < _JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_MAX)
+                return false;
+
+        /* A proper JsonVariant is aligned to whatever malloc() aligns things too, which is definitely not uneven. We
+         * hence use all uneven pointers as indicators for const strings. */
+
+        return (((uintptr_t) v) & 1) != 0;
+}
+
+static bool json_variant_is_regular(const JsonVariant *v) {
+
+        if (v < _JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_MAX)
+                return false;
+
+        return (((uintptr_t) v) & 1) == 0;
+}
+
+static JsonVariant *json_variant_dereference(JsonVariant *v) {
+
+        /* Recursively dereference variants that are references to other variants */
+
+        if (!v)
+                return NULL;
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_regular(v))
+                return v;
+
+        if (!v->is_reference)
+                return v;
+
+        return json_variant_dereference(v->reference);
+}
+
+static uint16_t json_variant_depth(JsonVariant *v) {
+
+        v = json_variant_dereference(v);
+        if (!v)
+                return 0;
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_regular(v))
+                return 0;
+
+        return v->depth;
+}
+
+static JsonVariant *json_variant_formalize(JsonVariant *v) {
+
+        /* Converts json variant pointers to their normalized form, i.e. fully dereferenced and wherever
+         * possible converted to the "magic" version if there is one */
+
+        if (!v)
+                return NULL;
+
+        v = json_variant_dereference(v);
+
+        switch (json_variant_type(v)) {
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_BOOLEAN:
+                return json_variant_boolean(v) ? JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_TRUE : JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_FALSE;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_NULL:
+                return JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_NULL;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_INTEGER:
+                return json_variant_integer(v) == 0 ? JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_ZERO_INTEGER : v;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_UNSIGNED:
+                return json_variant_unsigned(v) == 0 ? JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_ZERO_UNSIGNED : v;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_REAL:
+                return iszero_safe(json_variant_real(v)) ? JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_ZERO_REAL : v;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_STRING:
+                return isempty(json_variant_string(v)) ? JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_EMPTY_STRING : v;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_ARRAY:
+                return json_variant_elements(v) == 0 ? JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_EMPTY_ARRAY : v;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_OBJECT:
+                return json_variant_elements(v) == 0 ? JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_EMPTY_OBJECT : v;
+
+        default:
+                return v;
+        }
+}
+
+static JsonVariant *json_variant_conservative_formalize(JsonVariant *v) {
+
+        /* Much like json_variant_formalize(), but won't simplify if the variant has a source/line location
+         * attached to it, in order not to lose context */
+
+        if (!v)
+                return NULL;
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_regular(v))
+                return v;
+
+        if (v->source || v->line > 0 || v->column > 0)
+                return v;
+
+        return json_variant_formalize(v);
+}
+
+static int json_variant_new(JsonVariant **ret, JsonVariantType type, size_t space) {
+        JsonVariant *v;
+
+        assert_return(ret, -EINVAL);
+
+        v = malloc0(MAX(sizeof(JsonVariant),
+                        offsetof(JsonVariant, value) + space));
+        if (!v)
+                return -ENOMEM;
+
+        v->n_ref = 1;
+        v->type = type;
+
+        *ret = v;
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_variant_new_integer(JsonVariant **ret, int64_t i) {
+        JsonVariant *v;
+        int r;
+
+        assert_return(ret, -EINVAL);
+
+        if (i == 0) {
+                *ret = JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_ZERO_INTEGER;
+                return 0;
+        }
+
+        r = json_variant_new(&v, JSON_VARIANT_INTEGER, sizeof(i));
+        if (r < 0)
+                return r;
+
+        v->value.integer = i;
+        *ret = v;
+
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_variant_new_unsigned(JsonVariant **ret, uint64_t u) {
+        JsonVariant *v;
+        int r;
+
+        assert_return(ret, -EINVAL);
+        if (u == 0) {
+                *ret = JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_ZERO_UNSIGNED;
+                return 0;
+        }
+
+        r = json_variant_new(&v, JSON_VARIANT_UNSIGNED, sizeof(u));
+        if (r < 0)
+                return r;
+
+        v->value.unsig = u;
+        *ret = v;
+
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_variant_new_real(JsonVariant **ret, double d) {
+        JsonVariant *v;
+        int r;
+
+        assert_return(ret, -EINVAL);
+
+        r = fpclassify(d);
+        switch (r) {
+        case FP_NAN:
+        case FP_INFINITE:
+                /* JSON doesn't know NaN, +Infinity or -Infinity. Let's silently convert to 'null'. */
+                *ret = JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_NULL;
+                return 0;
+
+        case FP_ZERO:
+                *ret = JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_ZERO_REAL;
+                return 0;
+        }
+
+        r = json_variant_new(&v, JSON_VARIANT_REAL, sizeof(d));
+        if (r < 0)
+                return r;
+
+        v->value.real = d;
+        *ret = v;
+
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_variant_new_boolean(JsonVariant **ret, bool b) {
+        assert_return(ret, -EINVAL);
+
+        if (b)
+                *ret = JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_TRUE;
+        else
+                *ret = JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_FALSE;
+
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_variant_new_null(JsonVariant **ret) {
+        assert_return(ret, -EINVAL);
+
+        *ret = JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_NULL;
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_variant_new_stringn(JsonVariant **ret, const char *s, size_t n) {
+        JsonVariant *v;
+        int r;
+
+        assert_return(ret, -EINVAL);
+        if (!s) {
+                assert_return(IN_SET(n, 0, SIZE_MAX), -EINVAL);
+                return json_variant_new_null(ret);
+        }
+        if (n == SIZE_MAX) /* determine length automatically */
+                n = strlen(s);
+        else if (memchr(s, 0, n)) /* don't allow embedded NUL, as we can't express that in JSON */
+                return -EINVAL;
+        if (n == 0) {
+                *ret = JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_EMPTY_STRING;
+                return 0;
+        }
+
+        if (!utf8_is_valid_n(s, n)) /* JSON strings must be valid UTF-8 */
+                return -EUCLEAN;
+
+        r = json_variant_new(&v, JSON_VARIANT_STRING, n + 1);
+        if (r < 0)
+                return r;
+
+        memcpy(v->string, s, n);
+        v->string[n] = 0;
+
+        *ret = v;
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_variant_new_base64(JsonVariant **ret, const void *p, size_t n) {
+        _cleanup_free_ char *s = NULL;
+        ssize_t k;
+
+        assert_return(ret, -EINVAL);
+        assert_return(n == 0 || p, -EINVAL);
+
+        k = base64mem(p, n, &s);
+        if (k < 0)
+                return k;
+
+        return json_variant_new_stringn(ret, s, k);
+}
+
+int json_variant_new_base32hex(JsonVariant **ret, const void *p, size_t n) {
+        _cleanup_free_ char *s = NULL;
+
+        assert_return(ret, -EINVAL);
+        assert_return(n == 0 || p, -EINVAL);
+
+        s = base32hexmem(p, n, false);
+        if (!s)
+                return -ENOMEM;
+
+        return json_variant_new_string(ret, s);
+}
+
+int json_variant_new_hex(JsonVariant **ret, const void *p, size_t n) {
+        _cleanup_free_ char *s = NULL;
+
+        assert_return(ret, -EINVAL);
+        assert_return(n == 0 || p, -EINVAL);
+
+        s = hexmem(p, n);
+        if (!s)
+                return -ENOMEM;
+
+        return json_variant_new_stringn(ret, s, n*2);
+}
+
+int json_variant_new_octescape(JsonVariant **ret, const void *p, size_t n) {
+        _cleanup_free_ char *s = NULL;
+
+        assert_return(ret, -EINVAL);
+        assert_return(n == 0 || p, -EINVAL);
+
+        s = octescape(p, n);
+        if (!s)
+                return -ENOMEM;
+
+        return json_variant_new_string(ret, s);
+}
+
+int json_variant_new_id128(JsonVariant **ret, sd_id128_t id) {
+        return json_variant_new_string(ret, SD_ID128_TO_STRING(id));
+}
+
+static void json_variant_set(JsonVariant *a, JsonVariant *b) {
+        assert(a);
+
+        b = json_variant_dereference(b);
+        if (!b) {
+                a->type = JSON_VARIANT_NULL;
+                return;
+        }
+
+        a->type = json_variant_type(b);
+        switch (a->type) {
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_INTEGER:
+                a->value.integer = json_variant_integer(b);
+                break;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_UNSIGNED:
+                a->value.unsig = json_variant_unsigned(b);
+                break;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_REAL:
+                a->value.real = json_variant_real(b);
+                break;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_BOOLEAN:
+                a->value.boolean = json_variant_boolean(b);
+                break;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_STRING: {
+                const char *s;
+
+                assert_se(s = json_variant_string(b));
+
+                /* Short strings we can store inline */
+                if (strnlen(s, INLINE_STRING_MAX+1) <= INLINE_STRING_MAX) {
+                        strcpy(a->string, s);
+                        break;
+                }
+
+                /* For longer strings, use a reference… */
+                _fallthrough_;
+        }
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_ARRAY:
+        case JSON_VARIANT_OBJECT:
+                a->is_reference = true;
+                a->reference = json_variant_ref(json_variant_conservative_formalize(b));
+                break;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_NULL:
+                break;
+
+        default:
+                assert_not_reached();
+        }
+}
+
+static void json_variant_copy_source(JsonVariant *v, JsonVariant *from) {
+        assert(v);
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_regular(from))
+                return;
+
+        v->line = from->line;
+        v->column = from->column;
+        v->source = json_source_ref(from->source);
+}
+
+int json_variant_new_array(JsonVariant **ret, JsonVariant **array, size_t n) {
+        _cleanup_(json_variant_unrefp) JsonVariant *v = NULL;
+        bool normalized = true;
+
+        assert_return(ret, -EINVAL);
+        if (n == 0) {
+                *ret = JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_EMPTY_ARRAY;
+                return 0;
+        }
+        assert_return(array, -EINVAL);
+
+        v = new(JsonVariant, n + 1);
+        if (!v)
+                return -ENOMEM;
+
+        *v = (JsonVariant) {
+                .n_ref = 1,
+                .type = JSON_VARIANT_ARRAY,
+        };
+
+        for (v->n_elements = 0; v->n_elements < n; v->n_elements++) {
+                JsonVariant *w = v + 1 + v->n_elements,
+                            *c = array[v->n_elements];
+                uint16_t d;
+
+                d = json_variant_depth(c);
+                if (d >= DEPTH_MAX) /* Refuse too deep nesting */
+                        return -ELNRNG;
+                if (d >= v->depth)
+                        v->depth = d + 1;
+
+                *w = (JsonVariant) {
+                        .is_embedded = true,
+                        .parent = v,
+                };
+
+                json_variant_set(w, c);
+                json_variant_copy_source(w, c);
+
+                if (!json_variant_is_normalized(c))
+                        normalized = false;
+        }
+
+        v->normalized = normalized;
+
+        *ret = TAKE_PTR(v);
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_variant_new_array_bytes(JsonVariant **ret, const void *p, size_t n) {
+        assert_return(ret, -EINVAL);
+        if (n == 0) {
+                *ret = JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_EMPTY_ARRAY;
+                return 0;
+        }
+        assert_return(p, -EINVAL);
+
+        JsonVariant *v = new(JsonVariant, n + 1);
+        if (!v)
+                return -ENOMEM;
+
+        *v = (JsonVariant) {
+                .n_ref = 1,
+                .type = JSON_VARIANT_ARRAY,
+                .n_elements = n,
+                .depth = 1,
+        };
+
+        for (size_t i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+                JsonVariant *w = v + 1 + i;
+
+                *w = (JsonVariant) {
+                        .is_embedded = true,
+                        .parent = v,
+                        .type = JSON_VARIANT_UNSIGNED,
+                        .value.unsig = ((const uint8_t*) p)[i],
+                };
+        }
+
+        v->normalized = true;
+
+        *ret = v;
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_variant_new_array_strv(JsonVariant **ret, char **l) {
+        _cleanup_(json_variant_unrefp) JsonVariant *v = NULL;
+        size_t n;
+        int r;
+
+        assert(ret);
+
+        n = strv_length(l);
+        if (n == 0) {
+                *ret = JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_EMPTY_ARRAY;
+                return 0;
+        }
+
+        v = new(JsonVariant, n + 1);
+        if (!v)
+                return -ENOMEM;
+
+        *v = (JsonVariant) {
+                .n_ref = 1,
+                .type = JSON_VARIANT_ARRAY,
+                .depth = 1,
+        };
+
+        for (v->n_elements = 0; v->n_elements < n; v->n_elements++) {
+                JsonVariant *w = v + 1 + v->n_elements;
+                size_t k;
+
+                *w = (JsonVariant) {
+                        .is_embedded = true,
+                        .parent = v,
+                        .type = JSON_VARIANT_STRING,
+                };
+
+                k = strlen(l[v->n_elements]);
+
+                if (k > INLINE_STRING_MAX) {
+                        /* If string is too long, store it as reference. */
+
+                        r = json_variant_new_string(&w->reference, l[v->n_elements]);
+                        if (r < 0)
+                                return r;
+
+                        w->is_reference = true;
+                } else {
+                        if (!utf8_is_valid_n(l[v->n_elements], k)) /* JSON strings must be valid UTF-8 */
+                                return -EUCLEAN;
+
+                        memcpy(w->string, l[v->n_elements], k+1);
+                }
+        }
+
+        v->normalized = true;
+
+        *ret = TAKE_PTR(v);
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_variant_new_object(JsonVariant **ret, JsonVariant **array, size_t n) {
+        _cleanup_(json_variant_unrefp) JsonVariant *v = NULL;
+        const char *prev = NULL;
+        bool sorted = true, normalized = true;
+
+        assert_return(ret, -EINVAL);
+        if (n == 0) {
+                *ret = JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_EMPTY_OBJECT;
+                return 0;
+        }
+        assert_return(array, -EINVAL);
+        assert_return(n % 2 == 0, -EINVAL);
+
+        v = new(JsonVariant, n + 1);
+        if (!v)
+                return -ENOMEM;
+
+        *v = (JsonVariant) {
+                .n_ref = 1,
+                .type = JSON_VARIANT_OBJECT,
+        };
+
+        for (v->n_elements = 0; v->n_elements < n; v->n_elements++) {
+                JsonVariant *w = v + 1 + v->n_elements,
+                            *c = array[v->n_elements];
+                uint16_t d;
+
+                if ((v->n_elements & 1) == 0) {
+                        const char *k;
+
+                        if (!json_variant_is_string(c))
+                                return -EINVAL; /* Every second one needs to be a string, as it is the key name */
+
+                        assert_se(k = json_variant_string(c));
+
+                        if (prev && strcmp(k, prev) <= 0)
+                                sorted = normalized = false;
+
+                        prev = k;
+                } else if (!json_variant_is_normalized(c))
+                        normalized = false;
+
+                d = json_variant_depth(c);
+                if (d >= DEPTH_MAX) /* Refuse too deep nesting */
+                        return -ELNRNG;
+                if (d >= v->depth)
+                        v->depth = d + 1;
+
+                *w = (JsonVariant) {
+                        .is_embedded = true,
+                        .parent = v,
+                };
+
+                json_variant_set(w, c);
+                json_variant_copy_source(w, c);
+        }
+
+        v->normalized = normalized;
+        v->sorted = sorted;
+
+        *ret = TAKE_PTR(v);
+        return 0;
+}
+
+static size_t json_variant_size(JsonVariant* v) {
+        if (!json_variant_is_regular(v))
+                return 0;
+
+        if (v->is_reference)
+                return offsetof(JsonVariant, reference) + sizeof(JsonVariant*);
+
+        switch (v->type) {
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_STRING:
+                return offsetof(JsonVariant, string) + strlen(v->string) + 1;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_REAL:
+                return offsetof(JsonVariant, value) + sizeof(double);
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_UNSIGNED:
+                return offsetof(JsonVariant, value) + sizeof(uint64_t);
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_INTEGER:
+                return offsetof(JsonVariant, value) + sizeof(int64_t);
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_BOOLEAN:
+                return offsetof(JsonVariant, value) + sizeof(bool);
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_ARRAY:
+        case JSON_VARIANT_OBJECT:
+                return offsetof(JsonVariant, n_elements) + sizeof(size_t);
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_NULL:
+                return offsetof(JsonVariant, value);
+
+        default:
+                assert_not_reached();
+        }
+}
+
+static void json_variant_free_inner(JsonVariant *v, bool force_sensitive) {
+        bool sensitive;
+
+        assert(v);
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_regular(v))
+                return;
+
+        json_source_unref(v->source);
+
+        sensitive = v->sensitive || force_sensitive;
+
+        if (v->is_reference) {
+                if (sensitive)
+                        json_variant_sensitive(v->reference);
+
+                json_variant_unref(v->reference);
+                return;
+        }
+
+        if (IN_SET(v->type, JSON_VARIANT_ARRAY, JSON_VARIANT_OBJECT))
+                for (size_t i = 0; i < v->n_elements; i++)
+                        json_variant_free_inner(v + 1 + i, sensitive);
+
+        if (sensitive)
+                explicit_bzero_safe(v, json_variant_size(v));
+}
+
+JsonVariant *json_variant_ref(JsonVariant *v) {
+        if (!v)
+                return NULL;
+        if (!json_variant_is_regular(v))
+                return v;
+
+        if (v->is_embedded)
+                json_variant_ref(v->parent); /* ref the compounding variant instead */
+        else {
+                assert(v->n_ref > 0);
+                v->n_ref++;
+        }
+
+        return v;
+}
+
+JsonVariant *json_variant_unref(JsonVariant *v) {
+        if (!v)
+                return NULL;
+        if (!json_variant_is_regular(v))
+                return NULL;
+
+        if (v->is_embedded)
+                json_variant_unref(v->parent);
+        else {
+                assert(v->n_ref > 0);
+                v->n_ref--;
+
+                if (v->n_ref == 0) {
+                        json_variant_free_inner(v, false);
+                        free(v);
+                }
+        }
+
+        return NULL;
+}
+
+void json_variant_unref_many(JsonVariant **array, size_t n) {
+        assert(array || n == 0);
+
+        for (size_t i = 0; i < n; i++)
+                json_variant_unref(array[i]);
+}
+
+const char *json_variant_string(JsonVariant *v) {
+        if (!v)
+                return NULL;
+        if (v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_EMPTY_STRING)
+                return "";
+        if (json_variant_is_magic(v))
+                goto mismatch;
+        if (json_variant_is_const_string(v)) {
+                uintptr_t p = (uintptr_t) v;
+
+                assert((p & 1) != 0);
+                return (const char*) (p ^ 1U);
+        }
+
+        if (v->is_reference)
+                return json_variant_string(v->reference);
+        if (v->type != JSON_VARIANT_STRING)
+                goto mismatch;
+
+        return v->string;
+
+mismatch:
+        log_debug("Non-string JSON variant requested as string, returning NULL.");
+        return NULL;
+}
+
+bool json_variant_boolean(JsonVariant *v) {
+        if (!v)
+                goto mismatch;
+        if (v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_TRUE)
+                return true;
+        if (v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_FALSE)
+                return false;
+        if (!json_variant_is_regular(v))
+                goto mismatch;
+        if (v->type != JSON_VARIANT_BOOLEAN)
+                goto mismatch;
+        if (v->is_reference)
+                return json_variant_boolean(v->reference);
+
+        return v->value.boolean;
+
+mismatch:
+        log_debug("Non-boolean JSON variant requested as boolean, returning false.");
+        return false;
+}
+
+int64_t json_variant_integer(JsonVariant *v) {
+        if (!v)
+                goto mismatch;
+        if (v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_ZERO_INTEGER ||
+            v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_ZERO_UNSIGNED ||
+            v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_ZERO_REAL)
+                return 0;
+        if (!json_variant_is_regular(v))
+                goto mismatch;
+        if (v->is_reference)
+                return json_variant_integer(v->reference);
+
+        switch (v->type) {
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_INTEGER:
+                return v->value.integer;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_UNSIGNED:
+                if (v->value.unsig <= INT64_MAX)
+                        return (int64_t) v->value.unsig;
+
+                log_debug("Unsigned integer %" PRIu64 " requested as signed integer and out of range, returning 0.", v->value.unsig);
+                return 0;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_REAL: {
+                int64_t converted;
+
+                converted = (int64_t) v->value.real;
+
+                if (fp_equal((double) converted, v->value.real))
+                        return converted;
+
+                log_debug("Real %g requested as integer, and cannot be converted losslessly, returning 0.", v->value.real);
+                return 0;
+        }
+
+        default:
+                break;
+        }
+
+mismatch:
+        log_debug("Non-integer JSON variant requested as integer, returning 0.");
+        return 0;
+}
+
+uint64_t json_variant_unsigned(JsonVariant *v) {
+        if (!v)
+                goto mismatch;
+        if (v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_ZERO_INTEGER ||
+            v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_ZERO_UNSIGNED ||
+            v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_ZERO_REAL)
+                return 0;
+        if (!json_variant_is_regular(v))
+                goto mismatch;
+        if (v->is_reference)
+                return json_variant_integer(v->reference);
+
+        switch (v->type) {
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_INTEGER:
+                if (v->value.integer >= 0)
+                        return (uint64_t) v->value.integer;
+
+                log_debug("Signed integer %" PRIi64 " requested as unsigned integer and out of range, returning 0.", v->value.integer);
+                return 0;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_UNSIGNED:
+                return v->value.unsig;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_REAL: {
+                uint64_t converted;
+
+                converted = (uint64_t) v->value.real;
+
+                if (fp_equal((double) converted, v->value.real))
+                        return converted;
+
+                log_debug("Real %g requested as unsigned integer, and cannot be converted losslessly, returning 0.", v->value.real);
+                return 0;
+        }
+
+        default:
+                break;
+        }
+
+mismatch:
+        log_debug("Non-integer JSON variant requested as unsigned, returning 0.");
+        return 0;
+}
+
+double json_variant_real(JsonVariant *v) {
+        if (!v)
+                return 0.0;
+        if (v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_ZERO_INTEGER ||
+            v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_ZERO_UNSIGNED ||
+            v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_ZERO_REAL)
+                return 0.0;
+        if (!json_variant_is_regular(v))
+                goto mismatch;
+        if (v->is_reference)
+                return json_variant_real(v->reference);
+
+        switch (v->type) {
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_REAL:
+                return v->value.real;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_INTEGER: {
+                double converted = (double) v->value.integer;
+
+                if ((int64_t) converted == v->value.integer)
+                        return converted;
+
+                log_debug("Signed integer %" PRIi64 " requested as real, and cannot be converted losslessly, returning 0.", v->value.integer);
+                return 0.0;
+        }
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_UNSIGNED: {
+                double converted = (double) v->value.unsig;
+
+                if ((uint64_t) converted == v->value.unsig)
+                        return converted;
+
+                log_debug("Unsigned integer %" PRIu64 " requested as real, and cannot be converted losslessly, returning 0.", v->value.unsig);
+                return 0.0;
+        }
+
+        default:
+                break;
+        }
+
+mismatch:
+        log_debug("Non-integer JSON variant requested as integer, returning 0.");
+        return 0.0;
+}
+
+bool json_variant_is_negative(JsonVariant *v) {
+        if (!v)
+                goto mismatch;
+        if (v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_ZERO_INTEGER ||
+            v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_ZERO_UNSIGNED ||
+            v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_ZERO_REAL)
+                return false;
+        if (!json_variant_is_regular(v))
+                goto mismatch;
+        if (v->is_reference)
+                return json_variant_is_negative(v->reference);
+
+        /* This function is useful as checking whether numbers are negative is pretty complex since we have three types
+         * of numbers. And some JSON code (OCI for example) uses negative numbers to mark "not defined" numeric
+         * values. */
+
+        switch (v->type) {
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_REAL:
+                return v->value.real < 0;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_INTEGER:
+                return v->value.integer < 0;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_UNSIGNED:
+                return false;
+
+        default:
+                break;
+        }
+
+mismatch:
+        log_debug("Non-integer JSON variant tested for negativity, returning false.");
+        return false;
+}
+
+bool json_variant_is_blank_object(JsonVariant *v) {
+        /* Returns true if the specified object is null or empty */
+        return !v ||
+                json_variant_is_null(v) ||
+                (json_variant_is_object(v) && json_variant_elements(v) == 0);
+}
+
+bool json_variant_is_blank_array(JsonVariant *v) {
+        return !v ||
+                json_variant_is_null(v) ||
+                (json_variant_is_array(v) && json_variant_elements(v) == 0);
+}
+
+JsonVariantType json_variant_type(JsonVariant *v) {
+
+        if (!v)
+                return _JSON_VARIANT_TYPE_INVALID;
+
+        if (json_variant_is_const_string(v))
+                return JSON_VARIANT_STRING;
+
+        if (v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_TRUE || v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_FALSE)
+                return JSON_VARIANT_BOOLEAN;
+
+        if (v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_NULL)
+                return JSON_VARIANT_NULL;
+
+        if (v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_ZERO_INTEGER)
+                return JSON_VARIANT_INTEGER;
+
+        if (v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_ZERO_UNSIGNED)
+                return JSON_VARIANT_UNSIGNED;
+
+        if (v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_ZERO_REAL)
+                return JSON_VARIANT_REAL;
+
+        if (v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_EMPTY_STRING)
+                return JSON_VARIANT_STRING;
+
+        if (v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_EMPTY_ARRAY)
+                return JSON_VARIANT_ARRAY;
+
+        if (v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_EMPTY_OBJECT)
+                return JSON_VARIANT_OBJECT;
+
+        return v->type;
+}
+
+_function_no_sanitize_float_cast_overflow_
+bool json_variant_has_type(JsonVariant *v, JsonVariantType type) {
+        JsonVariantType rt;
+
+        /* Note: we turn off ubsan float cast overflow detection for this function, since it would complain
+         * about our float casts but we do them explicitly to detect conversion errors. */
+
+        v = json_variant_dereference(v);
+        if (!v)
+                return false;
+
+        rt = json_variant_type(v);
+        if (rt == type)
+                return true;
+
+        /* If it's a const string, then it only can be a string, and if it is not, it's not */
+        if (json_variant_is_const_string(v))
+                return false;
+
+        /* All three magic zeroes qualify as integer, unsigned and as real */
+        if ((v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_ZERO_INTEGER || v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_ZERO_UNSIGNED || v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_ZERO_REAL) &&
+            IN_SET(type, JSON_VARIANT_INTEGER, JSON_VARIANT_UNSIGNED, JSON_VARIANT_REAL, JSON_VARIANT_NUMBER))
+                return true;
+
+        /* All other magic variant types are only equal to themselves */
+        if (json_variant_is_magic(v))
+                return false;
+
+        /* Handle the "number" pseudo type */
+        if (type == JSON_VARIANT_NUMBER)
+                return IN_SET(rt, JSON_VARIANT_INTEGER, JSON_VARIANT_UNSIGNED, JSON_VARIANT_REAL);
+
+        /* Integer conversions are OK in many cases */
+        if (rt == JSON_VARIANT_INTEGER && type == JSON_VARIANT_UNSIGNED)
+                return v->value.integer >= 0;
+        if (rt == JSON_VARIANT_UNSIGNED && type == JSON_VARIANT_INTEGER)
+                return v->value.unsig <= INT64_MAX;
+
+        /* Any integer that can be converted lossley to a real and back may also be considered a real */
+        if (rt == JSON_VARIANT_INTEGER && type == JSON_VARIANT_REAL)
+                return (int64_t) (double) v->value.integer == v->value.integer;
+        if (rt == JSON_VARIANT_UNSIGNED && type == JSON_VARIANT_REAL)
+                return (uint64_t) (double) v->value.unsig == v->value.unsig;
+
+        /* Any real that can be converted losslessly to an integer and back may also be considered an integer */
+        if (rt == JSON_VARIANT_REAL && type == JSON_VARIANT_INTEGER)
+                return fp_equal((double) (int64_t) v->value.real, v->value.real);
+        if (rt == JSON_VARIANT_REAL && type == JSON_VARIANT_UNSIGNED)
+                return fp_equal((double) (uint64_t) v->value.real, v->value.real);
+
+        return false;
+}
+
+size_t json_variant_elements(JsonVariant *v) {
+        if (!v)
+                return 0;
+        if (v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_EMPTY_ARRAY ||
+            v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_EMPTY_OBJECT)
+                return 0;
+        if (!json_variant_is_regular(v))
+                goto mismatch;
+        if (!IN_SET(v->type, JSON_VARIANT_ARRAY, JSON_VARIANT_OBJECT))
+                goto mismatch;
+        if (v->is_reference)
+                return json_variant_elements(v->reference);
+
+        return v->n_elements;
+
+mismatch:
+        log_debug("Number of elements in non-array/non-object JSON variant requested, returning 0.");
+        return 0;
+}
+
+JsonVariant *json_variant_by_index(JsonVariant *v, size_t idx) {
+        if (!v)
+                return NULL;
+        if (v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_EMPTY_ARRAY ||
+            v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_EMPTY_OBJECT)
+                return NULL;
+        if (!json_variant_is_regular(v))
+                goto mismatch;
+        if (!IN_SET(v->type, JSON_VARIANT_ARRAY, JSON_VARIANT_OBJECT))
+                goto mismatch;
+        if (v->is_reference)
+                return json_variant_by_index(v->reference, idx);
+        if (idx >= v->n_elements)
+                return NULL;
+
+        return json_variant_conservative_formalize(v + 1 + idx);
+
+mismatch:
+        log_debug("Element in non-array/non-object JSON variant requested by index, returning NULL.");
+        return NULL;
+}
+
+JsonVariant *json_variant_by_key_full(JsonVariant *v, const char *key, JsonVariant **ret_key) {
+        if (!v)
+                goto not_found;
+        if (!key)
+                goto not_found;
+        if (v == JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_EMPTY_OBJECT)
+                goto not_found;
+        if (!json_variant_is_regular(v))
+                goto mismatch;
+        if (v->type != JSON_VARIANT_OBJECT)
+                goto mismatch;
+        if (v->is_reference)
+                return json_variant_by_key(v->reference, key);
+
+        if (v->sorted) {
+                size_t a = 0, b = v->n_elements/2;
+
+                /* If the variant is sorted we can use bisection to find the entry we need in O(log(n)) time */
+
+                while (b > a) {
+                        JsonVariant *p;
+                        const char *f;
+                        size_t i;
+                        int c;
+
+                        i = (a + b) / 2;
+                        p = json_variant_dereference(v + 1 + i*2);
+
+                        assert_se(f = json_variant_string(p));
+
+                        c = strcmp(key, f);
+                        if (c == 0) {
+                                if (ret_key)
+                                        *ret_key = json_variant_conservative_formalize(v + 1 + i*2);
+
+                                return json_variant_conservative_formalize(v + 1 + i*2 + 1);
+                        } else if (c < 0)
+                                b = i;
+                        else
+                                a = i + 1;
+                }
+
+                goto not_found;
+        }
+
+        /* The variant is not sorted, hence search for the field linearly */
+        for (size_t i = 0; i < v->n_elements; i += 2) {
+                JsonVariant *p;
+
+                p = json_variant_dereference(v + 1 + i);
+
+                if (!json_variant_has_type(p, JSON_VARIANT_STRING))
+                        continue;
+
+                if (streq(json_variant_string(p), key)) {
+
+                        if (ret_key)
+                                *ret_key = json_variant_conservative_formalize(v + 1 + i);
+
+                        return json_variant_conservative_formalize(v + 1 + i + 1);
+                }
+        }
+
+not_found:
+        if (ret_key)
+                *ret_key = NULL;
+
+        return NULL;
+
+mismatch:
+        log_debug("Element in non-object JSON variant requested by key, returning NULL.");
+        if (ret_key)
+                *ret_key = NULL;
+
+        return NULL;
+}
+
+JsonVariant *json_variant_by_key(JsonVariant *v, const char *key) {
+        return json_variant_by_key_full(v, key, NULL);
+}
+
+bool json_variant_equal(JsonVariant *a, JsonVariant *b) {
+        JsonVariantType t;
+
+        a = json_variant_formalize(a);
+        b = json_variant_formalize(b);
+
+        if (a == b)
+                return true;
+
+        t = json_variant_type(a);
+        if (!json_variant_has_type(b, t))
+                return false;
+
+        switch (t) {
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_STRING:
+                return streq(json_variant_string(a), json_variant_string(b));
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_INTEGER:
+                return json_variant_integer(a) == json_variant_integer(b);
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_UNSIGNED:
+                return json_variant_unsigned(a) == json_variant_unsigned(b);
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_REAL:
+                return fp_equal(json_variant_real(a), json_variant_real(b));
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_BOOLEAN:
+                return json_variant_boolean(a) == json_variant_boolean(b);
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_NULL:
+                return true;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_ARRAY: {
+                size_t n = json_variant_elements(a);
+                if (n != json_variant_elements(b))
+                        return false;
+
+                for (size_t i = 0; i < n; i++)
+                        if (!json_variant_equal(json_variant_by_index(a, i), json_variant_by_index(b, i)))
+                                return false;
+
+                return true;
+        }
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_OBJECT: {
+                size_t n = json_variant_elements(a);
+                if (n != json_variant_elements(b))
+                        return false;
+
+                /* Iterate through all keys in 'a' */
+                for (size_t i = 0; i < n; i += 2) {
+                        bool found = false;
+
+                        /* Match them against all keys in 'b' */
+                        for (size_t j = 0; j < n; j += 2) {
+                                JsonVariant *key_b;
+
+                                key_b = json_variant_by_index(b, j);
+
+                                /* During the first iteration unmark everything */
+                                if (i == 0)
+                                        key_b->is_marked = false;
+                                else if (key_b->is_marked) /* In later iterations if we already marked something, don't bother with it again */
+                                        continue;
+
+                                if (found)
+                                        continue;
+
+                                if (json_variant_equal(json_variant_by_index(a, i), key_b) &&
+                                    json_variant_equal(json_variant_by_index(a, i+1), json_variant_by_index(b, j+1))) {
+                                        /* Key and values match! */
+                                        key_b->is_marked = found = true;
+
+                                        /* In the first iteration we continue the inner loop since we want to mark
+                                         * everything, otherwise exit the loop quickly after we found what we were
+                                         * looking for. */
+                                        if (i != 0)
+                                                break;
+                                }
+                        }
+
+                        if (!found)
+                                return false;
+                }
+
+                return true;
+        }
+
+        default:
+                assert_not_reached();
+        }
+}
+
+void json_variant_sensitive(JsonVariant *v) {
+        assert(v);
+
+        /* Marks a variant as "sensitive", so that it is erased from memory when it is destroyed. This is a
+         * one-way operation: as soon as it is marked this way it remains marked this way until it's
+         * destroyed. A magic variant is never sensitive though, even when asked, since it's too
+         * basic. Similar, const string variant are never sensitive either, after all they are included in
+         * the source code as they are, which is not suitable for inclusion of secrets.
+         *
+         * Note that this flag has a recursive effect: when we destroy an object or array we'll propagate the
+         * flag to all contained variants. And if those are then destroyed this is propagated further down,
+         * and so on. */
+
+        v = json_variant_formalize(v);
+        if (!json_variant_is_regular(v))
+                return;
+
+        v->sensitive = true;
+}
+
+bool json_variant_is_sensitive(JsonVariant *v) {
+        v = json_variant_formalize(v);
+        if (!json_variant_is_regular(v))
+                return false;
+
+        return v->sensitive;
+}
+
+static void json_variant_propagate_sensitive(JsonVariant *from, JsonVariant *to) {
+        if (json_variant_is_sensitive(from))
+                json_variant_sensitive(to);
+}
+
+int json_variant_get_source(JsonVariant *v, const char **ret_source, unsigned *ret_line, unsigned *ret_column) {
+        assert_return(v, -EINVAL);
+
+        if (ret_source)
+                *ret_source = json_variant_is_regular(v) && v->source ? v->source->name : NULL;
+
+        if (ret_line)
+                *ret_line = json_variant_is_regular(v) ? v->line : 0;
+
+        if (ret_column)
+                *ret_column = json_variant_is_regular(v) ? v->column : 0;
+
+        return 0;
+}
+
+static int print_source(FILE *f, JsonVariant *v, JsonFormatFlags flags, bool whitespace) {
+        size_t w, k;
+
+        if (!FLAGS_SET(flags, JSON_FORMAT_SOURCE|JSON_FORMAT_PRETTY))
+                return 0;
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_regular(v))
+                return 0;
+
+        if (!v->source && v->line == 0 && v->column == 0)
+                return 0;
+
+        /* The max width we need to format the line numbers for this source file */
+        w = (v->source && v->source->max_line > 0) ?
+                DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH(v->source->max_line) :
+                DECIMAL_STR_MAX(unsigned)-1;
+        k = (v->source && v->source->max_column > 0) ?
+                DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH(v->source->max_column) :
+                DECIMAL_STR_MAX(unsigned) -1;
+
+        if (whitespace) {
+                size_t n = 1 + (v->source ? strlen(v->source->name) : 0) +
+                               ((v->source && (v->line > 0 || v->column > 0)) ? 1 : 0) +
+                               (v->line > 0 ? w : 0) +
+                               (((v->source || v->line > 0) && v->column > 0) ? 1 : 0) +
+                               (v->column > 0 ? k : 0) +
+                               2;
+
+                for (size_t i = 0; i < n; i++)
+                        fputc(' ', f);
+        } else {
+                fputc('[', f);
+
+                if (v->source)
+                        fputs(v->source->name, f);
+                if (v->source && (v->line > 0 || v->column > 0))
+                        fputc(':', f);
+                if (v->line > 0)
+                        fprintf(f, "%*u", (int) w, v->line);
+                if ((v->source || v->line > 0) || v->column > 0)
+                        fputc(':', f);
+                if (v->column > 0)
+                        fprintf(f, "%*u", (int) k, v->column);
+
+                fputc(']', f);
+                fputc(' ', f);
+        }
+
+        return 0;
+}
+
+static void json_format_string(FILE *f, const char *q, JsonFormatFlags flags) {
+        assert(q);
+
+        fputc('"', f);
+
+        if (flags & JSON_FORMAT_COLOR)
+                fputs(ansi_green(), f);
+
+        for (; *q; q++)
+                switch (*q) {
+                case '"':
+                        fputs("\\\"", f);
+                        break;
+
+                case '\\':
+                        fputs("\\\\", f);
+                        break;
+
+                case '\b':
+                        fputs("\\b", f);
+                        break;
+
+                case '\f':
+                        fputs("\\f", f);
+                        break;
+
+                case '\n':
+                        fputs("\\n", f);
+                        break;
+
+                case '\r':
+                        fputs("\\r", f);
+                        break;
+
+                case '\t':
+                        fputs("\\t", f);
+                        break;
+
+                default:
+                        if ((signed char) *q >= 0 && *q < ' ')
+                                fprintf(f, "\\u%04x", (unsigned) *q);
+                        else
+                                fputc(*q, f);
+                        break;
+                }
+
+        if (flags & JSON_FORMAT_COLOR)
+                fputs(ANSI_NORMAL, f);
+
+        fputc('"', f);
+}
+
+static int json_format(FILE *f, JsonVariant *v, JsonFormatFlags flags, const char *prefix) {
+        int r;
+
+        assert(f);
+        assert(v);
+
+        switch (json_variant_type(v)) {
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_REAL: {
+                locale_t loc, old_loc;
+
+                loc = newlocale(LC_NUMERIC_MASK, "C", (locale_t) 0);
+                if (loc == (locale_t) 0)
+                        return -errno;
+
+                if (flags & JSON_FORMAT_COLOR)
+                        fputs(ansi_highlight_blue(), f);
+
+                old_loc = uselocale(loc);
+                fprintf(f, "%.*e", DECIMAL_DIG, json_variant_real(v));
+                uselocale(old_loc);
+
+                if (flags & JSON_FORMAT_COLOR)
+                        fputs(ANSI_NORMAL, f);
+
+                freelocale(loc);
+                break;
+        }
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_INTEGER:
+                if (flags & JSON_FORMAT_COLOR)
+                        fputs(ansi_highlight_blue(), f);
+
+                fprintf(f, "%" PRIdMAX, json_variant_integer(v));
+
+                if (flags & JSON_FORMAT_COLOR)
+                        fputs(ANSI_NORMAL, f);
+                break;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_UNSIGNED:
+                if (flags & JSON_FORMAT_COLOR)
+                        fputs(ansi_highlight_blue(), f);
+
+                fprintf(f, "%" PRIuMAX, json_variant_unsigned(v));
+
+                if (flags & JSON_FORMAT_COLOR)
+                        fputs(ANSI_NORMAL, f);
+                break;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_BOOLEAN:
+
+                if (flags & JSON_FORMAT_COLOR)
+                        fputs(ANSI_HIGHLIGHT, f);
+
+                if (json_variant_boolean(v))
+                        fputs("true", f);
+                else
+                        fputs("false", f);
+
+                if (flags & JSON_FORMAT_COLOR)
+                        fputs(ANSI_NORMAL, f);
+
+                break;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_NULL:
+                if (flags & JSON_FORMAT_COLOR)
+                        fputs(ANSI_HIGHLIGHT, f);
+
+                fputs("null", f);
+
+                if (flags & JSON_FORMAT_COLOR)
+                        fputs(ANSI_NORMAL, f);
+                break;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_STRING:
+                json_format_string(f, json_variant_string(v), flags);
+                break;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_ARRAY: {
+                size_t n = json_variant_elements(v);
+                if (n == 0)
+                        fputs("[]", f);
+                else {
+                        _cleanup_free_ char *joined = NULL;
+                        const char *prefix2;
+
+                        if (flags & JSON_FORMAT_PRETTY) {
+                                joined = strjoin(strempty(prefix), "\t");
+                                if (!joined)
+                                        return -ENOMEM;
+
+                                prefix2 = joined;
+                                fputs("[\n", f);
+                        } else {
+                                prefix2 = strempty(prefix);
+                                fputc('[', f);
+                        }
+
+                        for (size_t i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+                                JsonVariant *e;
+
+                                assert_se(e = json_variant_by_index(v, i));
+
+                                if (i > 0) {
+                                        if (flags & JSON_FORMAT_PRETTY)
+                                                fputs(",\n", f);
+                                        else
+                                                fputc(',', f);
+                                }
+
+                                if (flags & JSON_FORMAT_PRETTY) {
+                                        print_source(f, e, flags, false);
+                                        fputs(prefix2, f);
+                                }
+
+                                r = json_format(f, e, flags, prefix2);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        return r;
+                        }
+
+                        if (flags & JSON_FORMAT_PRETTY) {
+                                fputc('\n', f);
+                                print_source(f, v, flags, true);
+                                fputs(strempty(prefix), f);
+                        }
+
+                        fputc(']', f);
+                }
+                break;
+        }
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_OBJECT: {
+                size_t n = json_variant_elements(v);
+                if (n == 0)
+                        fputs("{}", f);
+                else {
+                        _cleanup_free_ char *joined = NULL;
+                        const char *prefix2;
+
+                        if (flags & JSON_FORMAT_PRETTY) {
+                                joined = strjoin(strempty(prefix), "\t");
+                                if (!joined)
+                                        return -ENOMEM;
+
+                                prefix2 = joined;
+                                fputs("{\n", f);
+                        } else {
+                                prefix2 = strempty(prefix);
+                                fputc('{', f);
+                        }
+
+                        for (size_t i = 0; i < n; i += 2) {
+                                JsonVariant *e;
+
+                                e = json_variant_by_index(v, i);
+
+                                if (i > 0) {
+                                        if (flags & JSON_FORMAT_PRETTY)
+                                                fputs(",\n", f);
+                                        else
+                                                fputc(',', f);
+                                }
+
+                                if (flags & JSON_FORMAT_PRETTY) {
+                                        print_source(f, e, flags, false);
+                                        fputs(prefix2, f);
+                                }
+
+                                r = json_format(f, e, flags, prefix2);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        return r;
+
+                                fputs(flags & JSON_FORMAT_PRETTY ? " : " : ":", f);
+
+                                r = json_format(f, json_variant_by_index(v, i+1), flags, prefix2);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        return r;
+                        }
+
+                        if (flags & JSON_FORMAT_PRETTY) {
+                                fputc('\n', f);
+                                print_source(f, v, flags, true);
+                                fputs(strempty(prefix), f);
+                        }
+
+                        fputc('}', f);
+                }
+                break;
+        }
+
+        default:
+                assert_not_reached();
+        }
+
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_variant_format(JsonVariant *v, JsonFormatFlags flags, char **ret) {
+        _cleanup_free_ char *s = NULL;
+        size_t sz = 0;
+        int r;
+
+        /* Returns the length of the generated string (without the terminating NUL),
+         * or negative on error. */
+
+        assert_return(v, -EINVAL);
+        assert_return(ret, -EINVAL);
+
+        if (flags & JSON_FORMAT_OFF)
+                return -ENOEXEC;
+
+        {
+                _cleanup_fclose_ FILE *f = NULL;
+
+                f = open_memstream_unlocked(&s, &sz);
+                if (!f)
+                        return -ENOMEM;
+
+                r = json_variant_dump(v, flags, f, NULL);
+                if (r < 0)
+                        return r;
+
+                /* Add terminating 0, so that the output buffer is a valid string. */
+                fputc('\0', f);
+
+                r = fflush_and_check(f);
+        }
+        if (r < 0)
+                return r;
+
+        assert(s);
+        *ret = TAKE_PTR(s);
+        assert(sz > 0);
+        return (int) sz - 1;
+}
+
+int json_variant_dump(JsonVariant *v, JsonFormatFlags flags, FILE *f, const char *prefix) {
+        if (!v)
+                return 0;
+
+        if (!f)
+                f = stdout;
+
+        print_source(f, v, flags, false);
+
+        if (((flags & (JSON_FORMAT_COLOR_AUTO|JSON_FORMAT_COLOR)) == JSON_FORMAT_COLOR_AUTO) && colors_enabled())
+                flags |= JSON_FORMAT_COLOR;
+
+        if (((flags & (JSON_FORMAT_PRETTY_AUTO|JSON_FORMAT_PRETTY)) == JSON_FORMAT_PRETTY_AUTO))
+                flags |= on_tty() ? JSON_FORMAT_PRETTY : JSON_FORMAT_NEWLINE;
+
+        if (flags & JSON_FORMAT_SSE)
+                fputs("data: ", f);
+        if (flags & JSON_FORMAT_SEQ)
+                fputc('\x1e', f); /* ASCII Record Separator */
+
+        json_format(f, v, flags, prefix);
+
+        if (flags & (JSON_FORMAT_PRETTY|JSON_FORMAT_SEQ|JSON_FORMAT_SSE|JSON_FORMAT_NEWLINE))
+                fputc('\n', f);
+        if (flags & JSON_FORMAT_SSE)
+                fputc('\n', f); /* In case of SSE add a second newline */
+
+        if (flags & JSON_FORMAT_FLUSH)
+                return fflush_and_check(f);
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_variant_filter(JsonVariant **v, char **to_remove) {
+        _cleanup_(json_variant_unrefp) JsonVariant *w = NULL;
+        _cleanup_free_ JsonVariant **array = NULL;
+        size_t n = 0, k = 0;
+        int r;
+
+        assert(v);
+
+        if (json_variant_is_blank_object(*v))
+                return 0;
+        if (!json_variant_is_object(*v))
+                return -EINVAL;
+
+        if (strv_isempty(to_remove))
+                return 0;
+
+        for (size_t i = 0; i < json_variant_elements(*v); i += 2) {
+                JsonVariant *p;
+
+                p = json_variant_by_index(*v, i);
+                if (!json_variant_has_type(p, JSON_VARIANT_STRING))
+                        return -EINVAL;
+
+                if (strv_contains(to_remove, json_variant_string(p))) {
+                        if (!array) {
+                                array = new(JsonVariant*, json_variant_elements(*v) - 2);
+                                if (!array)
+                                        return -ENOMEM;
+
+                                for (k = 0; k < i; k++)
+                                        array[k] = json_variant_by_index(*v, k);
+                        }
+
+                        n++;
+                } else if (array) {
+                        array[k++] = p;
+                        array[k++] = json_variant_by_index(*v, i + 1);
+                }
+        }
+
+        if (n == 0)
+                return 0;
+
+        r = json_variant_new_object(&w, array, k);
+        if (r < 0)
+                return r;
+
+        json_variant_propagate_sensitive(*v, w);
+        JSON_VARIANT_REPLACE(*v, TAKE_PTR(w));
+
+        return (int) n;
+}
+
+int json_variant_set_field(JsonVariant **v, const char *field, JsonVariant *value) {
+        _cleanup_(json_variant_unrefp) JsonVariant *field_variant = NULL, *w = NULL;
+        _cleanup_free_ JsonVariant **array = NULL;
+        size_t k = 0;
+        int r;
+
+        assert(v);
+        assert(field);
+
+        if (json_variant_is_blank_object(*v)) {
+                array = new(JsonVariant*, 2);
+                if (!array)
+                        return -ENOMEM;
+
+        } else {
+                if (!json_variant_is_object(*v))
+                        return -EINVAL;
+
+                for (size_t i = 0; i < json_variant_elements(*v); i += 2) {
+                        JsonVariant *p;
+
+                        p = json_variant_by_index(*v, i);
+                        if (!json_variant_is_string(p))
+                                return -EINVAL;
+
+                        if (streq(json_variant_string(p), field)) {
+
+                                if (!array) {
+                                        array = new(JsonVariant*, json_variant_elements(*v));
+                                        if (!array)
+                                                return -ENOMEM;
+
+                                        for (k = 0; k < i; k++)
+                                                array[k] = json_variant_by_index(*v, k);
+                                }
+
+                        } else if (array) {
+                                array[k++] = p;
+                                array[k++] = json_variant_by_index(*v, i + 1);
+                        }
+                }
+
+                if (!array) {
+                        array = new(JsonVariant*, json_variant_elements(*v) + 2);
+                        if (!array)
+                                return -ENOMEM;
+
+                        for (k = 0; k < json_variant_elements(*v); k++)
+                                array[k] = json_variant_by_index(*v, k);
+                }
+        }
+
+        r = json_variant_new_string(&field_variant, field);
+        if (r < 0)
+                return r;
+
+        array[k++] = field_variant;
+        array[k++] = value;
+
+        r = json_variant_new_object(&w, array, k);
+        if (r < 0)
+                return r;
+
+        json_variant_propagate_sensitive(*v, w);
+        JSON_VARIANT_REPLACE(*v, TAKE_PTR(w));
+
+        return 1;
+}
+
+int json_variant_set_field_string(JsonVariant **v, const char *field, const char *value) {
+        _cleanup_(json_variant_unrefp) JsonVariant *m = NULL;
+        int r;
+
+        r = json_variant_new_string(&m, value);
+        if (r < 0)
+                return r;
+
+        return json_variant_set_field(v, field, m);
+}
+
+int json_variant_set_field_integer(JsonVariant **v, const char *field, int64_t i) {
+        _cleanup_(json_variant_unrefp) JsonVariant *m = NULL;
+        int r;
+
+        r = json_variant_new_integer(&m, i);
+        if (r < 0)
+                return r;
+
+        return json_variant_set_field(v, field, m);
+}
+
+int json_variant_set_field_unsigned(JsonVariant **v, const char *field, uint64_t u) {
+        _cleanup_(json_variant_unrefp) JsonVariant *m = NULL;
+        int r;
+
+        r = json_variant_new_unsigned(&m, u);
+        if (r < 0)
+                return r;
+
+        return json_variant_set_field(v, field, m);
+}
+
+int json_variant_set_field_boolean(JsonVariant **v, const char *field, bool b) {
+        _cleanup_(json_variant_unrefp) JsonVariant *m = NULL;
+        int r;
+
+        r = json_variant_new_boolean(&m, b);
+        if (r < 0)
+                return r;
+
+        return json_variant_set_field(v, field, m);
+}
+
+int json_variant_set_field_strv(JsonVariant **v, const char *field, char **l) {
+        _cleanup_(json_variant_unrefp) JsonVariant *m = NULL;
+        int r;
+
+        r = json_variant_new_array_strv(&m, l);
+        if (r < 0)
+                return r;
+
+        return json_variant_set_field(v, field, m);
+}
+
+int json_variant_merge(JsonVariant **v, JsonVariant *m) {
+        _cleanup_(json_variant_unrefp) JsonVariant *w = NULL;
+        _cleanup_free_ JsonVariant **array = NULL;
+        size_t v_elements, m_elements, k;
+        bool v_blank, m_blank;
+        int r;
+
+        m = json_variant_dereference(m);
+
+        v_blank = json_variant_is_blank_object(*v);
+        m_blank = json_variant_is_blank_object(m);
+
+        if (!v_blank && !json_variant_is_object(*v))
+                return -EINVAL;
+        if (!m_blank && !json_variant_is_object(m))
+                return -EINVAL;
+
+        if (m_blank)
+                return 0; /* nothing to do */
+
+        if (v_blank) {
+                JSON_VARIANT_REPLACE(*v, json_variant_ref(m));
+                return 1;
+        }
+
+        v_elements = json_variant_elements(*v);
+        m_elements = json_variant_elements(m);
+        if (v_elements > SIZE_MAX - m_elements) /* overflow check */
+                return -ENOMEM;
+
+        array = new(JsonVariant*, v_elements + m_elements);
+        if (!array)
+                return -ENOMEM;
+
+        k = 0;
+        for (size_t i = 0; i < v_elements; i += 2) {
+                JsonVariant *u;
+
+                u = json_variant_by_index(*v, i);
+                if (!json_variant_is_string(u))
+                        return -EINVAL;
+
+                if (json_variant_by_key(m, json_variant_string(u)))
+                        continue; /* skip if exists in second variant */
+
+                array[k++] = u;
+                array[k++] = json_variant_by_index(*v, i + 1);
+        }
+
+        for (size_t i = 0; i < m_elements; i++)
+                array[k++] = json_variant_by_index(m, i);
+
+        r = json_variant_new_object(&w, array, k);
+        if (r < 0)
+                return r;
+
+        json_variant_propagate_sensitive(*v, w);
+        json_variant_propagate_sensitive(m, w);
+        JSON_VARIANT_REPLACE(*v, TAKE_PTR(w));
+
+        return 1;
+}
+
+int json_variant_append_array(JsonVariant **v, JsonVariant *element) {
+        _cleanup_(json_variant_unrefp) JsonVariant *nv = NULL;
+        bool blank;
+        int r;
+
+        assert(v);
+        assert(element);
+
+
+        if (!*v || json_variant_is_null(*v))
+                blank = true;
+        else if (!json_variant_is_array(*v))
+                return -EINVAL;
+        else
+                blank = json_variant_elements(*v) == 0;
+
+        if (blank)
+                r = json_variant_new_array(&nv, (JsonVariant*[]) { element }, 1);
+        else {
+                _cleanup_free_ JsonVariant **array = new(JsonVariant*, json_variant_elements(*v) + 1);
+                if (!array)
+                        return -ENOMEM;
+
+                size_t size = json_variant_elements(*v);
+                for (size_t i = 0; i < size; i++)
+                        array[i] = json_variant_by_index(*v, i);
+
+                array[size] = element;
+
+                r = json_variant_new_array(&nv, array, size + 1);
+        }
+        if (r < 0)
+                return r;
+
+        json_variant_propagate_sensitive(*v, nv);
+        JSON_VARIANT_REPLACE(*v, TAKE_PTR(nv));
+
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_variant_strv(JsonVariant *v, char ***ret) {
+        char **l = NULL;
+        bool sensitive;
+        int r;
+
+        assert(ret);
+
+        if (!v || json_variant_is_null(v)) {
+                l = new0(char*, 1);
+                if (!l)
+                        return -ENOMEM;
+
+                *ret = l;
+                return 0;
+        }
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_array(v))
+                return -EINVAL;
+
+        sensitive = json_variant_is_sensitive(v);
+
+        size_t n = json_variant_elements(v);
+        l = new(char*, n+1);
+        if (!l)
+                return -ENOMEM;
+
+        for (size_t i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+                JsonVariant *e;
+
+                assert_se(e = json_variant_by_index(v, i));
+                sensitive = sensitive || json_variant_is_sensitive(e);
+
+                if (!json_variant_is_string(e)) {
+                        l[i] = NULL;
+                        r = -EINVAL;
+                        goto fail;
+                }
+
+                l[i] = strdup(json_variant_string(e));
+                if (!l[i]) {
+                        r = -ENOMEM;
+                        goto fail;
+                }
+        }
+
+        l[n] = NULL;
+        *ret = TAKE_PTR(l);
+
+        return 0;
+
+fail:
+        if (sensitive)
+                strv_free_erase(l);
+        else
+                strv_free(l);
+
+        return r;
+}
+
+static int json_variant_copy(JsonVariant **nv, JsonVariant *v) {
+        JsonVariantType t;
+        JsonVariant *c;
+        JsonValue value;
+        const void *source;
+        size_t k;
+
+        assert(nv);
+        assert(v);
+
+        /* Let's copy the simple types literally, and the larger types by references */
+        t = json_variant_type(v);
+        switch (t) {
+        case JSON_VARIANT_INTEGER:
+                k = sizeof(int64_t);
+                value.integer = json_variant_integer(v);
+                source = &value;
+                break;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_UNSIGNED:
+                k = sizeof(uint64_t);
+                value.unsig = json_variant_unsigned(v);
+                source = &value;
+                break;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_REAL:
+                k = sizeof(double);
+                value.real = json_variant_real(v);
+                source = &value;
+                break;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_BOOLEAN:
+                k = sizeof(bool);
+                value.boolean = json_variant_boolean(v);
+                source = &value;
+                break;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_NULL:
+                k = 0;
+                source = NULL;
+                break;
+
+        case JSON_VARIANT_STRING:
+                source = json_variant_string(v);
+                k = strnlen(source, INLINE_STRING_MAX + 1);
+                if (k <= INLINE_STRING_MAX) {
+                        k ++;
+                        break;
+                }
+
+                _fallthrough_;
+
+        default:
+                /* Everything else copy by reference */
+
+                c = malloc0(MAX(sizeof(JsonVariant),
+                                offsetof(JsonVariant, reference) + sizeof(JsonVariant*)));
+                if (!c)
+                        return -ENOMEM;
+
+                c->n_ref = 1;
+                c->type = t;
+                c->is_reference = true;
+                c->reference = json_variant_ref(json_variant_formalize(v));
+
+                *nv = c;
+                return 0;
+        }
+
+        c = malloc0(MAX(sizeof(JsonVariant),
+                        offsetof(JsonVariant, value) + k));
+        if (!c)
+                return -ENOMEM;
+
+        c->n_ref = 1;
+        c->type = t;
+
+        memcpy_safe(&c->value, source, k);
+
+        json_variant_propagate_sensitive(v, c);
+
+        *nv = c;
+        return 0;
+}
+
+static bool json_single_ref(JsonVariant *v) {
+
+        /* Checks whether the caller is the single owner of the object, i.e. can get away with changing it */
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_regular(v))
+                return false;
+
+        if (v->is_embedded)
+                return json_single_ref(v->parent);
+
+        assert(v->n_ref > 0);
+        return v->n_ref == 1;
+}
+
+static int json_variant_set_source(JsonVariant **v, JsonSource *source, unsigned line, unsigned column) {
+        JsonVariant *w;
+        int r;
+
+        assert(v);
+
+        /* Patch in source and line/column number. Tries to do this in-place if the caller is the sole
+         * referencer of the object. If not, allocates a new object, possibly a surrogate for the original
+         * one */
+
+        if (!*v)
+                return 0;
+
+        if (source && line > source->max_line)
+                source->max_line = line;
+        if (source && column > source->max_column)
+                source->max_column = column;
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_regular(*v)) {
+
+                if (!source && line == 0 && column == 0)
+                        return 0;
+
+        } else {
+                if (json_source_equal((*v)->source, source) &&
+                    (*v)->line == line &&
+                    (*v)->column == column)
+                        return 0;
+
+                if (json_single_ref(*v)) { /* Sole reference? */
+                        json_source_unref((*v)->source);
+                        (*v)->source = json_source_ref(source);
+                        (*v)->line = line;
+                        (*v)->column = column;
+                        return 1;
+                }
+        }
+
+        r = json_variant_copy(&w, *v);
+        if (r < 0)
+                return r;
+
+        assert(json_variant_is_regular(w));
+        assert(!w->is_embedded);
+        assert(w->n_ref == 1);
+        assert(!w->source);
+
+        w->source = json_source_ref(source);
+        w->line = line;
+        w->column = column;
+
+        JSON_VARIANT_REPLACE(*v, w);
+
+        return 1;
+}
+
+static void inc_lines_columns(unsigned *line, unsigned *column, const char *s, size_t n) {
+        assert(line);
+        assert(column);
+        assert(s || n == 0);
+
+        while (n > 0) {
+                if (*s == '\n') {
+                        (*line)++;
+                        *column = 1;
+                } else if ((signed char) *s >= 0 && *s < 127) /* Process ASCII chars quickly */
+                        (*column)++;
+                else {
+                        int w;
+
+                        w = utf8_encoded_valid_unichar(s, n);
+                        if (w < 0) /* count invalid unichars as normal characters */
+                                w = 1;
+                        else if ((size_t) w > n) /* never read more than the specified number of characters */
+                                w = (int) n;
+
+                        (*column)++;
+
+                        s += w;
+                        n -= w;
+                        continue;
+                }
+
+                s++;
+                n--;
+        }
+}
+
+static int unhex_ucs2(const char *c, uint16_t *ret) {
+        int aa, bb, cc, dd;
+        uint16_t x;
+
+        assert(c);
+        assert(ret);
+
+        aa = unhexchar(c[0]);
+        if (aa < 0)
+                return -EINVAL;
+
+        bb = unhexchar(c[1]);
+        if (bb < 0)
+                return -EINVAL;
+
+        cc = unhexchar(c[2]);
+        if (cc < 0)
+                return -EINVAL;
+
+        dd = unhexchar(c[3]);
+        if (dd < 0)
+                return -EINVAL;
+
+        x =     ((uint16_t) aa << 12) |
+                ((uint16_t) bb << 8) |
+                ((uint16_t) cc << 4) |
+                ((uint16_t) dd);
+
+        if (x <= 0)
+                return -EINVAL;
+
+        *ret = x;
+
+        return 0;
+}
+
+static int json_parse_string(const char **p, char **ret) {
+        _cleanup_free_ char *s = NULL;
+        size_t n = 0;
+        const char *c;
+
+        assert(p);
+        assert(*p);
+        assert(ret);
+
+        c = *p;
+
+        if (*c != '"')
+                return -EINVAL;
+
+        c++;
+
+        for (;;) {
+                int len;
+
+                /* Check for EOF */
+                if (*c == 0)
+                        return -EINVAL;
+
+                /* Check for control characters 0x00..0x1f */
+                if (*c > 0 && *c < ' ')
+                        return -EINVAL;
+
+                /* Check for control character 0x7f */
+                if (*c == 0x7f)
+                        return -EINVAL;
+
+                if (*c == '"') {
+                        if (!s) {
+                                s = strdup("");
+                                if (!s)
+                                        return -ENOMEM;
+                        } else
+                                s[n] = 0;
+
+                        *p = c + 1;
+
+                        *ret = TAKE_PTR(s);
+                        return JSON_TOKEN_STRING;
+                }
+
+                if (*c == '\\') {
+                        char ch = 0;
+                        c++;
+
+                        if (*c == 0)
+                                return -EINVAL;
+
+                        if (IN_SET(*c, '"', '\\', '/'))
+                                ch = *c;
+                        else if (*c == 'b')
+                                ch = '\b';
+                        else if (*c == 'f')
+                                ch = '\f';
+                        else if (*c == 'n')
+                                ch = '\n';
+                        else if (*c == 'r')
+                                ch = '\r';
+                        else if (*c == 't')
+                                ch = '\t';
+                        else if (*c == 'u') {
+                                char16_t x;
+                                int r;
+
+                                r = unhex_ucs2(c + 1, &x);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        return r;
+
+                                c += 5;
+
+                                if (!GREEDY_REALLOC(s, n + 5))
+                                        return -ENOMEM;
+
+                                if (!utf16_is_surrogate(x))
+                                        n += utf8_encode_unichar(s + n, (char32_t) x);
+                                else if (utf16_is_trailing_surrogate(x))
+                                        return -EINVAL;
+                                else {
+                                        char16_t y;
+
+                                        if (c[0] != '\\' || c[1] != 'u')
+                                                return -EINVAL;
+
+                                        r = unhex_ucs2(c + 2, &y);
+                                        if (r < 0)
+                                                return r;
+
+                                        c += 6;
+
+                                        if (!utf16_is_trailing_surrogate(y))
+                                                return -EINVAL;
+
+                                        n += utf8_encode_unichar(s + n, utf16_surrogate_pair_to_unichar(x, y));
+                                }
+
+                                continue;
+                        } else
+                                return -EINVAL;
+
+                        if (!GREEDY_REALLOC(s, n + 2))
+                                return -ENOMEM;
+
+                        s[n++] = ch;
+                        c ++;
+                        continue;
+                }
+
+                len = utf8_encoded_valid_unichar(c, SIZE_MAX);
+                if (len < 0)
+                        return len;
+
+                if (!GREEDY_REALLOC(s, n + len + 1))
+                        return -ENOMEM;
+
+                memcpy(s + n, c, len);
+                n += len;
+                c += len;
+        }
+}
+
+static int json_parse_number(const char **p, JsonValue *ret) {
+        bool negative = false, exponent_negative = false, is_real = false;
+        double x = 0.0, y = 0.0, exponent = 0.0, shift = 1.0;
+        int64_t i = 0;
+        uint64_t u = 0;
+        const char *c;
+
+        assert(p);
+        assert(*p);
+        assert(ret);
+
+        c = *p;
+
+        if (*c == '-') {
+                negative = true;
+                c++;
+        }
+
+        if (*c == '0')
+                c++;
+        else {
+                if (!strchr("123456789", *c) || *c == 0)
+                        return -EINVAL;
+
+                do {
+                        if (!is_real) {
+                                if (negative) {
+
+                                        if (i < INT64_MIN / 10) /* overflow */
+                                                is_real = true;
+                                        else {
+                                                int64_t t = 10 * i;
+
+                                                if (t < INT64_MIN + (*c - '0')) /* overflow */
+                                                        is_real = true;
+                                                else
+                                                        i = t - (*c - '0');
+                                        }
+                                } else {
+                                        if (u > UINT64_MAX / 10) /* overflow */
+                                                is_real = true;
+                                        else {
+                                                uint64_t t = 10 * u;
+
+                                                if (t > UINT64_MAX - (*c - '0')) /* overflow */
+                                                        is_real = true;
+                                                else
+                                                        u = t + (*c - '0');
+                                        }
+                                }
+                        }
+
+                        x = 10.0 * x + (*c - '0');
+
+                        c++;
+                } while (strchr("0123456789", *c) && *c != 0);
+        }
+
+        if (*c == '.') {
+                is_real = true;
+                c++;
+
+                if (!strchr("0123456789", *c) || *c == 0)
+                        return -EINVAL;
+
+                do {
+                        y = 10.0 * y + (*c - '0');
+                        shift = 10.0 * shift;
+                        c++;
+                } while (strchr("0123456789", *c) && *c != 0);
+        }
+
+        if (IN_SET(*c, 'e', 'E')) {
+                is_real = true;
+                c++;
+
+                if (*c == '-') {
+                        exponent_negative = true;
+                        c++;
+                } else if (*c == '+')
+                        c++;
+
+                if (!strchr("0123456789", *c) || *c == 0)
+                        return -EINVAL;
+
+                do {
+                        exponent = 10.0 * exponent + (*c - '0');
+                        c++;
+                } while (strchr("0123456789", *c) && *c != 0);
+        }
+
+        *p = c;
+
+        if (is_real) {
+                ret->real = ((negative ? -1.0 : 1.0) * (x + (y / shift))) * exp10((exponent_negative ? -1.0 : 1.0) * exponent);
+                return JSON_TOKEN_REAL;
+        } else if (negative) {
+                ret->integer = i;
+                return JSON_TOKEN_INTEGER;
+        } else  {
+                ret->unsig = u;
+                return JSON_TOKEN_UNSIGNED;
+        }
+}
+
+int json_tokenize(
+                const char **p,
+                char **ret_string,
+                JsonValue *ret_value,
+                unsigned *ret_line,   /* 'ret_line' returns the line at the beginning of this token */
+                unsigned *ret_column,
+                void **state,
+                unsigned *line,       /* 'line' is used as a line state, it always reflect the line we are at after the token was read */
+                unsigned *column) {
+
+        unsigned start_line, start_column;
+        const char *start, *c;
+        size_t n;
+        int t, r;
+
+        enum {
+                STATE_NULL,
+                STATE_VALUE,
+                STATE_VALUE_POST,
+        };
+
+        assert(p);
+        assert(*p);
+        assert(ret_string);
+        assert(ret_value);
+        assert(ret_line);
+        assert(ret_column);
+        assert(line);
+        assert(column);
+        assert(state);
+
+        t = PTR_TO_INT(*state);
+        if (t == STATE_NULL) {
+                *line = 1;
+                *column = 1;
+                t = STATE_VALUE;
+        }
+
+        /* Skip over the whitespace */
+        n = strspn(*p, WHITESPACE);
+        inc_lines_columns(line, column, *p, n);
+        c = *p + n;
+
+        /* Remember where we started processing this token */
+        start = c;
+        start_line = *line;
+        start_column = *column;
+
+        if (*c == 0) {
+                *ret_string = NULL;
+                *ret_value = JSON_VALUE_NULL;
+                r = JSON_TOKEN_END;
+                goto finish;
+        }
+
+        switch (t) {
+
+        case STATE_VALUE:
+
+                if (*c == '{') {
+                        c++;
+                        *state = INT_TO_PTR(STATE_VALUE);
+                        r = JSON_TOKEN_OBJECT_OPEN;
+                        goto null_return;
+
+                } else if (*c == '}') {
+                        c++;
+                        *state = INT_TO_PTR(STATE_VALUE_POST);
+                        r = JSON_TOKEN_OBJECT_CLOSE;
+                        goto null_return;
+
+                } else if (*c == '[') {
+                        c++;
+                        *state = INT_TO_PTR(STATE_VALUE);
+                        r = JSON_TOKEN_ARRAY_OPEN;
+                        goto null_return;
+
+                } else if (*c == ']') {
+                        c++;
+                        *state = INT_TO_PTR(STATE_VALUE_POST);
+                        r = JSON_TOKEN_ARRAY_CLOSE;
+                        goto null_return;
+
+                } else if (*c == '"') {
+
+                        r = json_parse_string(&c, ret_string);
+                        if (r < 0)
+                                return r;
+
+                        *ret_value = JSON_VALUE_NULL;
+                        *state = INT_TO_PTR(STATE_VALUE_POST);
+                        goto finish;
+
+                } else if (strchr("-0123456789", *c)) {
+
+                        r = json_parse_number(&c, ret_value);
+                        if (r < 0)
+                                return r;
+
+                        *ret_string = NULL;
+                        *state = INT_TO_PTR(STATE_VALUE_POST);
+                        goto finish;
+
+                } else if (startswith(c, "true")) {
+                        *ret_string = NULL;
+                        ret_value->boolean = true;
+                        c += 4;
+                        *state = INT_TO_PTR(STATE_VALUE_POST);
+                        r = JSON_TOKEN_BOOLEAN;
+                        goto finish;
+
+                } else if (startswith(c, "false")) {
+                        *ret_string = NULL;
+                        ret_value->boolean = false;
+                        c += 5;
+                        *state = INT_TO_PTR(STATE_VALUE_POST);
+                        r = JSON_TOKEN_BOOLEAN;
+                        goto finish;
+
+                } else if (startswith(c, "null")) {
+                        *ret_string = NULL;
+                        *ret_value = JSON_VALUE_NULL;
+                        c += 4;
+                        *state = INT_TO_PTR(STATE_VALUE_POST);
+                        r = JSON_TOKEN_NULL;
+                        goto finish;
+
+                }
+
+                return -EINVAL;
+
+        case STATE_VALUE_POST:
+
+                if (*c == ':') {
+                        c++;
+                        *state = INT_TO_PTR(STATE_VALUE);
+                        r = JSON_TOKEN_COLON;
+                        goto null_return;
+
+                } else if (*c == ',') {
+                        c++;
+                        *state = INT_TO_PTR(STATE_VALUE);
+                        r = JSON_TOKEN_COMMA;
+                        goto null_return;
+
+                } else if (*c == '}') {
+                        c++;
+                        *state = INT_TO_PTR(STATE_VALUE_POST);
+                        r = JSON_TOKEN_OBJECT_CLOSE;
+                        goto null_return;
+
+                } else if (*c == ']') {
+                        c++;
+                        *state = INT_TO_PTR(STATE_VALUE_POST);
+                        r = JSON_TOKEN_ARRAY_CLOSE;
+                        goto null_return;
+                }
+
+                return -EINVAL;
+
+        default:
+                assert_not_reached();
+        }
+
+null_return:
+        *ret_string = NULL;
+        *ret_value = JSON_VALUE_NULL;
+
+finish:
+        inc_lines_columns(line, column, start, c - start);
+        *p = c;
+
+        *ret_line = start_line;
+        *ret_column = start_column;
+
+        return r;
+}
+
+typedef enum JsonExpect {
+        /* The following values are used by json_parse() */
+        EXPECT_TOPLEVEL,
+        EXPECT_END,
+        EXPECT_OBJECT_FIRST_KEY,
+        EXPECT_OBJECT_NEXT_KEY,
+        EXPECT_OBJECT_COLON,
+        EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE,
+        EXPECT_OBJECT_COMMA,
+        EXPECT_ARRAY_FIRST_ELEMENT,
+        EXPECT_ARRAY_NEXT_ELEMENT,
+        EXPECT_ARRAY_COMMA,
+
+        /* And these are used by json_build() */
+        EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT,
+        EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY,
+} JsonExpect;
+
+typedef struct JsonStack {
+        JsonExpect expect;
+        JsonVariant **elements;
+        size_t n_elements;
+        unsigned line_before;
+        unsigned column_before;
+        size_t n_suppress; /* When building: if > 0, suppress this many subsequent elements. If == SIZE_MAX, suppress all subsequent elements */
+} JsonStack;
+
+static void json_stack_release(JsonStack *s) {
+        assert(s);
+
+        json_variant_unref_many(s->elements, s->n_elements);
+        s->elements = mfree(s->elements);
+}
+
+static int json_parse_internal(
+                const char **input,
+                JsonSource *source,
+                JsonParseFlags flags,
+                JsonVariant **ret,
+                unsigned *line,
+                unsigned *column,
+                bool continue_end) {
+
+        size_t n_stack = 1;
+        unsigned line_buffer = 0, column_buffer = 0;
+        void *tokenizer_state = NULL;
+        JsonStack *stack = NULL;
+        const char *p;
+        int r;
+
+        assert_return(input, -EINVAL);
+        assert_return(ret, -EINVAL);
+
+        p = *input;
+
+        if (!GREEDY_REALLOC(stack, n_stack))
+                return -ENOMEM;
+
+        stack[0] = (JsonStack) {
+                .expect = EXPECT_TOPLEVEL,
+        };
+
+        if (!line)
+                line = &line_buffer;
+        if (!column)
+                column = &column_buffer;
+
+        for (;;) {
+                _cleanup_(json_variant_unrefp) JsonVariant *add = NULL;
+                _cleanup_free_ char *string = NULL;
+                unsigned line_token, column_token;
+                JsonStack *current;
+                JsonValue value;
+                int token;
+
+                assert(n_stack > 0);
+                current = stack + n_stack - 1;
+
+                if (continue_end && current->expect == EXPECT_END)
+                        goto done;
+
+                token = json_tokenize(&p, &string, &value, &line_token, &column_token, &tokenizer_state, line, column);
+                if (token < 0) {
+                        r = token;
+                        goto finish;
+                }
+
+                switch (token) {
+
+                case JSON_TOKEN_END:
+                        if (current->expect != EXPECT_END) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        assert(current->n_elements == 1);
+                        assert(n_stack == 1);
+                        goto done;
+
+                case JSON_TOKEN_COLON:
+
+                        if (current->expect != EXPECT_OBJECT_COLON) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE;
+                        break;
+
+                case JSON_TOKEN_COMMA:
+
+                        if (current->expect == EXPECT_OBJECT_COMMA)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_NEXT_KEY;
+                        else if (current->expect == EXPECT_ARRAY_COMMA)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_ARRAY_NEXT_ELEMENT;
+                        else {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        break;
+
+                case JSON_TOKEN_OBJECT_OPEN:
+
+                        if (!IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_TOPLEVEL, EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE, EXPECT_ARRAY_FIRST_ELEMENT, EXPECT_ARRAY_NEXT_ELEMENT)) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        if (!GREEDY_REALLOC(stack, n_stack+1)) {
+                                r = -ENOMEM;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+                        current = stack + n_stack - 1;
+
+                        /* Prepare the expect for when we return from the child */
+                        if (current->expect == EXPECT_TOPLEVEL)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_END;
+                        else if (current->expect == EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_COMMA;
+                        else {
+                                assert(IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_ARRAY_FIRST_ELEMENT, EXPECT_ARRAY_NEXT_ELEMENT));
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_ARRAY_COMMA;
+                        }
+
+                        stack[n_stack++] = (JsonStack) {
+                                .expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_FIRST_KEY,
+                                .line_before = line_token,
+                                .column_before = column_token,
+                        };
+
+                        current = stack + n_stack - 1;
+                        break;
+
+                case JSON_TOKEN_OBJECT_CLOSE:
+                        if (!IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_OBJECT_FIRST_KEY, EXPECT_OBJECT_COMMA)) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        assert(n_stack > 1);
+
+                        r = json_variant_new_object(&add, current->elements, current->n_elements);
+                        if (r < 0)
+                                goto finish;
+
+                        line_token = current->line_before;
+                        column_token = current->column_before;
+
+                        json_stack_release(current);
+                        n_stack--, current--;
+
+                        break;
+
+                case JSON_TOKEN_ARRAY_OPEN:
+                        if (!IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_TOPLEVEL, EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE, EXPECT_ARRAY_FIRST_ELEMENT, EXPECT_ARRAY_NEXT_ELEMENT)) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        if (!GREEDY_REALLOC(stack, n_stack+1)) {
+                                r = -ENOMEM;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+                        current = stack + n_stack - 1;
+
+                        /* Prepare the expect for when we return from the child */
+                        if (current->expect == EXPECT_TOPLEVEL)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_END;
+                        else if (current->expect == EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_COMMA;
+                        else {
+                                assert(IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_ARRAY_FIRST_ELEMENT, EXPECT_ARRAY_NEXT_ELEMENT));
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_ARRAY_COMMA;
+                        }
+
+                        stack[n_stack++] = (JsonStack) {
+                                .expect = EXPECT_ARRAY_FIRST_ELEMENT,
+                                .line_before = line_token,
+                                .column_before = column_token,
+                        };
+
+                        break;
+
+                case JSON_TOKEN_ARRAY_CLOSE:
+                        if (!IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_ARRAY_FIRST_ELEMENT, EXPECT_ARRAY_COMMA)) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        assert(n_stack > 1);
+
+                        r = json_variant_new_array(&add, current->elements, current->n_elements);
+                        if (r < 0)
+                                goto finish;
+
+                        line_token = current->line_before;
+                        column_token = current->column_before;
+
+                        json_stack_release(current);
+                        n_stack--, current--;
+                        break;
+
+                case JSON_TOKEN_STRING:
+                        if (!IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_TOPLEVEL, EXPECT_OBJECT_FIRST_KEY, EXPECT_OBJECT_NEXT_KEY, EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE, EXPECT_ARRAY_FIRST_ELEMENT, EXPECT_ARRAY_NEXT_ELEMENT)) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        r = json_variant_new_string(&add, string);
+                        if (r < 0)
+                                goto finish;
+
+                        if (current->expect == EXPECT_TOPLEVEL)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_END;
+                        else if (IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_OBJECT_FIRST_KEY, EXPECT_OBJECT_NEXT_KEY))
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_COLON;
+                        else if (current->expect == EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_COMMA;
+                        else {
+                                assert(IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_ARRAY_FIRST_ELEMENT, EXPECT_ARRAY_NEXT_ELEMENT));
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_ARRAY_COMMA;
+                        }
+
+                        break;
+
+                case JSON_TOKEN_REAL:
+                        if (!IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_TOPLEVEL, EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE, EXPECT_ARRAY_FIRST_ELEMENT, EXPECT_ARRAY_NEXT_ELEMENT)) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        r = json_variant_new_real(&add, value.real);
+                        if (r < 0)
+                                goto finish;
+
+                        if (current->expect == EXPECT_TOPLEVEL)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_END;
+                        else if (current->expect == EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_COMMA;
+                        else {
+                                assert(IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_ARRAY_FIRST_ELEMENT, EXPECT_ARRAY_NEXT_ELEMENT));
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_ARRAY_COMMA;
+                        }
+
+                        break;
+
+                case JSON_TOKEN_INTEGER:
+                        if (!IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_TOPLEVEL, EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE, EXPECT_ARRAY_FIRST_ELEMENT, EXPECT_ARRAY_NEXT_ELEMENT)) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        r = json_variant_new_integer(&add, value.integer);
+                        if (r < 0)
+                                goto finish;
+
+                        if (current->expect == EXPECT_TOPLEVEL)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_END;
+                        else if (current->expect == EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_COMMA;
+                        else {
+                                assert(IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_ARRAY_FIRST_ELEMENT, EXPECT_ARRAY_NEXT_ELEMENT));
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_ARRAY_COMMA;
+                        }
+
+                        break;
+
+                case JSON_TOKEN_UNSIGNED:
+                        if (!IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_TOPLEVEL, EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE, EXPECT_ARRAY_FIRST_ELEMENT, EXPECT_ARRAY_NEXT_ELEMENT)) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        r = json_variant_new_unsigned(&add, value.unsig);
+                        if (r < 0)
+                                goto finish;
+
+                        if (current->expect == EXPECT_TOPLEVEL)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_END;
+                        else if (current->expect == EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_COMMA;
+                        else {
+                                assert(IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_ARRAY_FIRST_ELEMENT, EXPECT_ARRAY_NEXT_ELEMENT));
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_ARRAY_COMMA;
+                        }
+
+                        break;
+
+                case JSON_TOKEN_BOOLEAN:
+                        if (!IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_TOPLEVEL, EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE, EXPECT_ARRAY_FIRST_ELEMENT, EXPECT_ARRAY_NEXT_ELEMENT)) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        r = json_variant_new_boolean(&add, value.boolean);
+                        if (r < 0)
+                                goto finish;
+
+                        if (current->expect == EXPECT_TOPLEVEL)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_END;
+                        else if (current->expect == EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_COMMA;
+                        else {
+                                assert(IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_ARRAY_FIRST_ELEMENT, EXPECT_ARRAY_NEXT_ELEMENT));
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_ARRAY_COMMA;
+                        }
+
+                        break;
+
+                case JSON_TOKEN_NULL:
+                        if (!IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_TOPLEVEL, EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE, EXPECT_ARRAY_FIRST_ELEMENT, EXPECT_ARRAY_NEXT_ELEMENT)) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        r = json_variant_new_null(&add);
+                        if (r < 0)
+                                goto finish;
+
+                        if (current->expect == EXPECT_TOPLEVEL)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_END;
+                        else if (current->expect == EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_COMMA;
+                        else {
+                                assert(IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_ARRAY_FIRST_ELEMENT, EXPECT_ARRAY_NEXT_ELEMENT));
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_ARRAY_COMMA;
+                        }
+
+                        break;
+
+                default:
+                        assert_not_reached();
+                }
+
+                if (add) {
+                        /* If we are asked to make this parsed object sensitive, then let's apply this
+                         * immediately after allocating each variant, so that when we abort half-way
+                         * everything we already allocated that is then freed is correctly marked. */
+                        if (FLAGS_SET(flags, JSON_PARSE_SENSITIVE))
+                                json_variant_sensitive(add);
+
+                        (void) json_variant_set_source(&add, source, line_token, column_token);
+
+                        if (!GREEDY_REALLOC(current->elements, current->n_elements + 1)) {
+                                r = -ENOMEM;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        current->elements[current->n_elements++] = TAKE_PTR(add);
+                }
+        }
+
+done:
+        assert(n_stack == 1);
+        assert(stack[0].n_elements == 1);
+
+        *ret = json_variant_ref(stack[0].elements[0]);
+        *input = p;
+        r = 0;
+
+finish:
+        for (size_t i = 0; i < n_stack; i++)
+                json_stack_release(stack + i);
+
+        free(stack);
+
+        return r;
+}
+
+int json_parse(const char *input, JsonParseFlags flags, JsonVariant **ret, unsigned *ret_line, unsigned *ret_column) {
+        return json_parse_internal(&input, NULL, flags, ret, ret_line, ret_column, false);
+}
+
+int json_parse_continue(const char **p, JsonParseFlags flags, JsonVariant **ret, unsigned *ret_line, unsigned *ret_column) {
+        return json_parse_internal(p, NULL, flags, ret, ret_line, ret_column, true);
+}
+
+int json_parse_file_at(FILE *f, int dir_fd, const char *path, JsonParseFlags flags, JsonVariant **ret, unsigned *ret_line, unsigned *ret_column) {
+        _cleanup_(json_source_unrefp) JsonSource *source = NULL;
+        _cleanup_free_ char *text = NULL;
+        int r;
+
+        if (f)
+                r = read_full_stream(f, &text, NULL);
+        else if (path)
+                r = read_full_file_full(dir_fd, path, UINT64_MAX, SIZE_MAX, 0, NULL, &text, NULL);
+        else
+                return -EINVAL;
+        if (r < 0)
+                return r;
+
+        if (isempty(text))
+                return -ENODATA;
+
+        if (path) {
+                source = json_source_new(path);
+                if (!source)
+                        return -ENOMEM;
+        }
+
+        const char *p = text;
+        return json_parse_internal(&p, source, flags, ret, ret_line, ret_column, false);
+}
+
+int json_buildv(JsonVariant **ret, va_list ap) {
+        JsonStack *stack = NULL;
+        size_t n_stack = 1;
+        int r;
+
+        assert_return(ret, -EINVAL);
+
+        if (!GREEDY_REALLOC(stack, n_stack))
+                return -ENOMEM;
+
+        stack[0] = (JsonStack) {
+                .expect = EXPECT_TOPLEVEL,
+        };
+
+        for (;;) {
+                _cleanup_(json_variant_unrefp) JsonVariant *add = NULL, *add_more = NULL;
+                size_t n_subtract = 0; /* how much to subtract from current->n_suppress, i.e. how many elements would
+                                        * have been added to the current variant */
+                JsonStack *current;
+                int command;
+
+                assert(n_stack > 0);
+                current = stack + n_stack - 1;
+
+                if (current->expect == EXPECT_END)
+                        goto done;
+
+                command = va_arg(ap, int);
+
+                switch (command) {
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_STRING: {
+                        const char *p;
+
+                        if (!IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_TOPLEVEL, EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE, EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT)) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        p = va_arg(ap, const char *);
+
+                        if (current->n_suppress == 0) {
+                                r = json_variant_new_string(&add, p);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n_subtract = 1;
+
+                        if (current->expect == EXPECT_TOPLEVEL)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_END;
+                        else if (current->expect == EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY;
+                        else
+                                assert(current->expect == EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT);
+
+                        break;
+                }
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_INTEGER: {
+                        int64_t j;
+
+                        if (!IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_TOPLEVEL, EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE, EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT)) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        j = va_arg(ap, int64_t);
+
+                        if (current->n_suppress == 0) {
+                                r = json_variant_new_integer(&add, j);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n_subtract = 1;
+
+                        if (current->expect == EXPECT_TOPLEVEL)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_END;
+                        else if (current->expect == EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY;
+                        else
+                                assert(current->expect == EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT);
+
+                        break;
+                }
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_UNSIGNED: {
+                        uint64_t j;
+
+                        if (!IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_TOPLEVEL, EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE, EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT)) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        j = va_arg(ap, uint64_t);
+
+                        if (current->n_suppress == 0) {
+                                r = json_variant_new_unsigned(&add, j);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n_subtract = 1;
+
+                        if (current->expect == EXPECT_TOPLEVEL)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_END;
+                        else if (current->expect == EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY;
+                        else
+                                assert(current->expect == EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT);
+
+                        break;
+                }
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_REAL: {
+                        double d;
+
+                        if (!IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_TOPLEVEL, EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE, EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT)) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        d = va_arg(ap, double);
+
+                        if (current->n_suppress == 0) {
+                                r = json_variant_new_real(&add, d);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n_subtract = 1;
+
+                        if (current->expect == EXPECT_TOPLEVEL)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_END;
+                        else if (current->expect == EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY;
+                        else
+                                assert(current->expect == EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT);
+
+                        break;
+                }
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_BOOLEAN: {
+                        bool b;
+
+                        if (!IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_TOPLEVEL, EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE, EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT)) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        b = va_arg(ap, int);
+
+                        if (current->n_suppress == 0) {
+                                r = json_variant_new_boolean(&add, b);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n_subtract = 1;
+
+                        if (current->expect == EXPECT_TOPLEVEL)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_END;
+                        else if (current->expect == EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY;
+                        else
+                                assert(current->expect == EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT);
+
+                        break;
+                }
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_NULL:
+
+                        if (!IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_TOPLEVEL, EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE, EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT)) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        if (current->n_suppress == 0) {
+                                r = json_variant_new_null(&add);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n_subtract = 1;
+
+                        if (current->expect == EXPECT_TOPLEVEL)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_END;
+                        else if (current->expect == EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY;
+                        else
+                                assert(current->expect == EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT);
+
+                        break;
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_VARIANT:
+
+                        if (!IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_TOPLEVEL, EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE, EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT)) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        /* Note that we don't care for current->n_suppress here, after all the variant is already
+                         * allocated anyway... */
+                        add = va_arg(ap, JsonVariant*);
+                        if (!add)
+                                add = JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_NULL;
+                        else
+                                json_variant_ref(add);
+
+                        n_subtract = 1;
+
+                        if (current->expect == EXPECT_TOPLEVEL)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_END;
+                        else if (current->expect == EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY;
+                        else
+                                assert(current->expect == EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT);
+
+                        break;
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_VARIANT_ARRAY: {
+                        JsonVariant **array;
+                        size_t n;
+
+                        if (!IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_TOPLEVEL, EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE, EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT)) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        array = va_arg(ap, JsonVariant**);
+                        n = va_arg(ap, size_t);
+
+                        if (current->n_suppress == 0) {
+                                r = json_variant_new_array(&add, array, n);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n_subtract = 1;
+
+                        if (current->expect == EXPECT_TOPLEVEL)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_END;
+                        else if (current->expect == EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY;
+                        else
+                                assert(current->expect == EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT);
+
+                        break;
+                }
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_LITERAL: {
+                        const char *l;
+
+                        if (!IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_TOPLEVEL, EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE, EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT)) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        l = va_arg(ap, const char *);
+
+                        if (l) {
+                                /* Note that we don't care for current->n_suppress here, we should generate parsing
+                                 * errors even in suppressed object properties */
+
+                                r = json_parse(l, 0, &add, NULL, NULL);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+                        } else
+                                add = JSON_VARIANT_MAGIC_NULL;
+
+                        n_subtract = 1;
+
+                        if (current->expect == EXPECT_TOPLEVEL)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_END;
+                        else if (current->expect == EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY;
+                        else
+                                assert(current->expect == EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT);
+
+                        break;
+                }
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_ARRAY_BEGIN:
+
+                        if (!IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_TOPLEVEL, EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE, EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT)) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        if (!GREEDY_REALLOC(stack, n_stack+1)) {
+                                r = -ENOMEM;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+                        current = stack + n_stack - 1;
+
+                        if (current->expect == EXPECT_TOPLEVEL)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_END;
+                        else if (current->expect == EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY;
+                        else
+                                assert(current->expect == EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT);
+
+                        stack[n_stack++] = (JsonStack) {
+                                .expect = EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT,
+                                .n_suppress = current->n_suppress != 0 ? SIZE_MAX : 0, /* if we shall suppress the
+                                                                                           * new array, then we should
+                                                                                           * also suppress all array
+                                                                                           * members */
+                        };
+
+                        break;
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_ARRAY_END:
+                        if (current->expect != EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        assert(n_stack > 1);
+
+                        if (current->n_suppress == 0) {
+                                r = json_variant_new_array(&add, current->elements, current->n_elements);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n_subtract = 1;
+
+                        json_stack_release(current);
+                        n_stack--, current--;
+
+                        break;
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_STRV: {
+                        char **l;
+
+                        if (!IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_TOPLEVEL, EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE, EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT)) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        l = va_arg(ap, char **);
+
+                        if (current->n_suppress == 0) {
+                                r = json_variant_new_array_strv(&add, l);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n_subtract = 1;
+
+                        if (current->expect == EXPECT_TOPLEVEL)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_END;
+                        else if (current->expect == EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY;
+                        else
+                                assert(current->expect == EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT);
+
+                        break;
+                }
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_BASE64:
+                case _JSON_BUILD_BASE32HEX:
+                case _JSON_BUILD_HEX:
+                case _JSON_BUILD_OCTESCAPE: {
+                        const void *p;
+                        size_t n;
+
+                        if (!IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_TOPLEVEL, EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE, EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT)) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        p = va_arg(ap, const void *);
+                        n = va_arg(ap, size_t);
+
+                        if (current->n_suppress == 0) {
+                                r = command == _JSON_BUILD_BASE64    ? json_variant_new_base64(&add, p, n) :
+                                    command == _JSON_BUILD_BASE32HEX ? json_variant_new_base32hex(&add, p, n) :
+                                    command == _JSON_BUILD_HEX       ? json_variant_new_hex(&add, p, n) :
+                                                                       json_variant_new_octescape(&add, p, n);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n_subtract = 1;
+
+                        if (current->expect == EXPECT_TOPLEVEL)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_END;
+                        else if (current->expect == EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY;
+                        else
+                                assert(current->expect == EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT);
+
+                        break;
+                }
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_ID128: {
+                        const sd_id128_t *id;
+
+                        if (!IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_TOPLEVEL, EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE, EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT)) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        assert_se(id = va_arg(ap, sd_id128_t*));
+
+                        if (current->n_suppress == 0) {
+                                r = json_variant_new_id128(&add, *id);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n_subtract = 1;
+
+                        if (current->expect == EXPECT_TOPLEVEL)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_END;
+                        else if (current->expect == EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY;
+                        else
+                                assert(current->expect == EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT);
+
+                        break;
+                }
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_BYTE_ARRAY: {
+                        const void *array;
+                        size_t n;
+
+                        if (!IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_TOPLEVEL, EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE, EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT)) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        array = va_arg(ap, const void*);
+                        n = va_arg(ap, size_t);
+
+                        if (current->n_suppress == 0) {
+                                r = json_variant_new_array_bytes(&add, array, n);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n_subtract = 1;
+
+                        if (current->expect == EXPECT_TOPLEVEL)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_END;
+                        else if (current->expect == EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY;
+                        else
+                                assert(current->expect == EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT);
+
+                        break;
+                }
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_HW_ADDR: {
+                        const struct hw_addr_data *hw_addr;
+
+                        if (!IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_TOPLEVEL, EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE, EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT)) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        assert_se(hw_addr = va_arg(ap, struct hw_addr_data*));
+
+                        if (current->n_suppress == 0) {
+                                r = json_variant_new_array_bytes(&add, hw_addr->bytes, hw_addr->length);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n_subtract = 1;
+
+                        if (current->expect == EXPECT_TOPLEVEL)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_END;
+                        else if (current->expect == EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY;
+                        else
+                                assert(current->expect == EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT);
+
+                        break;
+                }
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_OBJECT_BEGIN:
+
+                        if (!IN_SET(current->expect, EXPECT_TOPLEVEL, EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE, EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT)) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        if (!GREEDY_REALLOC(stack, n_stack+1)) {
+                                r = -ENOMEM;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+                        current = stack + n_stack - 1;
+
+                        if (current->expect == EXPECT_TOPLEVEL)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_END;
+                        else if (current->expect == EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE)
+                                current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY;
+                        else
+                                assert(current->expect == EXPECT_ARRAY_ELEMENT);
+
+                        stack[n_stack++] = (JsonStack) {
+                                .expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY,
+                                .n_suppress = current->n_suppress != 0 ? SIZE_MAX : 0, /* If we shall suppress the
+                                                                                        * new object, then we should
+                                                                                        * also suppress all object
+                                                                                        * members. */
+                        };
+
+                        break;
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_OBJECT_END:
+
+                        if (current->expect != EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        assert(n_stack > 1);
+
+                        if (current->n_suppress == 0) {
+                                r = json_variant_new_object(&add, current->elements, current->n_elements);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n_subtract = 1;
+
+                        json_stack_release(current);
+                        n_stack--, current--;
+
+                        break;
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_PAIR: {
+                        const char *n;
+
+                        if (current->expect != EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n = va_arg(ap, const char *);
+
+                        if (current->n_suppress == 0) {
+                                r = json_variant_new_string(&add, n);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n_subtract = 1;
+
+                        current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE;
+                        break;
+                }
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_PAIR_CONDITION: {
+                        const char *n;
+                        bool b;
+
+                        if (current->expect != EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        b = va_arg(ap, int);
+                        n = va_arg(ap, const char *);
+
+                        if (b && current->n_suppress == 0) {
+                                r = json_variant_new_string(&add, n);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n_subtract = 1; /* we generated one item */
+
+                        if (!b && current->n_suppress != SIZE_MAX)
+                                current->n_suppress += 2; /* Suppress this one and the next item */
+
+                        current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_VALUE;
+                        break;
+                }
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_PAIR_UNSIGNED_NON_ZERO: {
+                        const char *n;
+                        uint64_t u;
+
+                        if (current->expect != EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n = va_arg(ap, const char *);
+                        u = va_arg(ap, uint64_t);
+
+                        if (u != 0 && current->n_suppress == 0) {
+                                r = json_variant_new_string(&add, n);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+
+                                r = json_variant_new_unsigned(&add_more, u);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n_subtract = 2; /* we generated two item */
+
+                        current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY;
+                        break;
+                }
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_PAIR_FINITE_USEC: {
+                        const char *n;
+                        usec_t u;
+
+                        if (current->expect != EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n = va_arg(ap, const char *);
+                        u = va_arg(ap, usec_t);
+
+                        if (u != USEC_INFINITY && current->n_suppress == 0) {
+                                r = json_variant_new_string(&add, n);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+
+                                r = json_variant_new_unsigned(&add_more, u);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n_subtract = 2; /* we generated two item */
+
+                        current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY;
+                        break;
+                }
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_PAIR_STRING_NON_EMPTY: {
+                        const char *n, *s;
+
+                        if (current->expect != EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n = va_arg(ap, const char *);
+                        s = va_arg(ap, const char *);
+
+                        if (!isempty(s) && current->n_suppress == 0) {
+                                r = json_variant_new_string(&add, n);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+
+                                r = json_variant_new_string(&add_more, s);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n_subtract = 2; /* we generated two item */
+
+                        current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY;
+                        break;
+                }
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_PAIR_STRV_NON_EMPTY: {
+                        const char *n;
+                        char **l;
+
+                        if (current->expect != EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n = va_arg(ap, const char *);
+                        l = va_arg(ap, char **);
+
+                        if (!strv_isempty(l) && current->n_suppress == 0) {
+                                r = json_variant_new_string(&add, n);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+
+                                r = json_variant_new_array_strv(&add_more, l);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n_subtract = 2; /* we generated two item */
+
+                        current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY;
+                        break;
+                }
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_PAIR_VARIANT_NON_NULL: {
+                        JsonVariant *v;
+                        const char *n;
+
+                        if (current->expect != EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n = va_arg(ap, const char *);
+                        v = va_arg(ap, JsonVariant *);
+
+                        if (v && !json_variant_is_null(v) && current->n_suppress == 0) {
+                                r = json_variant_new_string(&add, n);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+
+                                add_more = json_variant_ref(v);
+                        }
+
+                        n_subtract = 2; /* we generated two item */
+
+                        current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY;
+                        break;
+                }
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_PAIR_IN4_ADDR_NON_NULL: {
+                        const struct in_addr *a;
+                        const char *n;
+
+                        if (current->expect != EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n = va_arg(ap, const char *);
+                        a = va_arg(ap, const struct in_addr *);
+
+                        if (a && in4_addr_is_set(a) && current->n_suppress == 0) {
+                                r = json_variant_new_string(&add, n);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+
+                                r = json_variant_new_array_bytes(&add_more, a, sizeof(struct in_addr));
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n_subtract = 2; /* we generated two item */
+
+                        current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY;
+                        break;
+                }
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_PAIR_IN6_ADDR_NON_NULL: {
+                        const struct in6_addr *a;
+                        const char *n;
+
+                        if (current->expect != EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n = va_arg(ap, const char *);
+                        a = va_arg(ap, const struct in6_addr *);
+
+                        if (a && in6_addr_is_set(a) && current->n_suppress == 0) {
+                                r = json_variant_new_string(&add, n);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+
+                                r = json_variant_new_array_bytes(&add_more, a, sizeof(struct in6_addr));
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n_subtract = 2; /* we generated two item */
+
+                        current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY;
+                        break;
+                }
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_PAIR_IN_ADDR_NON_NULL: {
+                        const union in_addr_union *a;
+                        const char *n;
+                        int f;
+
+                        if (current->expect != EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n = va_arg(ap, const char *);
+                        a = va_arg(ap, const union in_addr_union *);
+                        f = va_arg(ap, int);
+
+                        if (a && in_addr_is_set(f, a) && current->n_suppress == 0) {
+                                r = json_variant_new_string(&add, n);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+
+                                r = json_variant_new_array_bytes(&add_more, a->bytes, FAMILY_ADDRESS_SIZE(f));
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n_subtract = 2; /* we generated two item */
+
+                        current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY;
+                        break;
+                }
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_PAIR_ETHER_ADDR_NON_NULL: {
+                        const struct ether_addr *a;
+                        const char *n;
+
+                        if (current->expect != EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n = va_arg(ap, const char *);
+                        a = va_arg(ap, const struct ether_addr *);
+
+                        if (a && !ether_addr_is_null(a) && current->n_suppress == 0) {
+                                r = json_variant_new_string(&add, n);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+
+                                r = json_variant_new_array_bytes(&add_more, a->ether_addr_octet, sizeof(struct ether_addr));
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n_subtract = 2; /* we generated two item */
+
+                        current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY;
+                        break;
+                }
+
+                case _JSON_BUILD_PAIR_HW_ADDR_NON_NULL: {
+                        const struct hw_addr_data *a;
+                        const char *n;
+
+                        if (current->expect != EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY) {
+                                r = -EINVAL;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n = va_arg(ap, const char *);
+                        a = va_arg(ap, const struct hw_addr_data *);
+
+                        if (a && !hw_addr_is_null(a) && current->n_suppress == 0) {
+                                r = json_variant_new_string(&add, n);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+
+                                r = json_variant_new_array_bytes(&add_more, a->bytes, a->length);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        n_subtract = 2; /* we generated two item */
+
+                        current->expect = EXPECT_OBJECT_KEY;
+                        break;
+                }
+                }
+
+                /* If variants were generated, add them to our current variant, but only if we are not supposed to suppress additions */
+                if (add && current->n_suppress == 0) {
+                        if (!GREEDY_REALLOC(current->elements, current->n_elements + 1 + !!add_more)) {
+                                r = -ENOMEM;
+                                goto finish;
+                        }
+
+                        current->elements[current->n_elements++] = TAKE_PTR(add);
+                        if (add_more)
+                                current->elements[current->n_elements++] = TAKE_PTR(add_more);
+                }
+
+                /* If we are supposed to suppress items, let's subtract how many items where generated from
+                 * that counter. Except if the counter is SIZE_MAX, i.e. we shall suppress an infinite number
+                 * of elements on this stack level */
+                if (current->n_suppress != SIZE_MAX) {
+                        if (current->n_suppress <= n_subtract) /* Saturated */
+                                current->n_suppress = 0;
+                        else
+                                current->n_suppress -= n_subtract;
+                }
+        }
+
+done:
+        assert(n_stack == 1);
+        assert(stack[0].n_elements == 1);
+
+        *ret = json_variant_ref(stack[0].elements[0]);
+        r = 0;
+
+finish:
+        for (size_t i = 0; i < n_stack; i++)
+                json_stack_release(stack + i);
+
+        free(stack);
+
+        return r;
+}
+
+int json_build(JsonVariant **ret, ...) {
+        va_list ap;
+        int r;
+
+        va_start(ap, ret);
+        r = json_buildv(ret, ap);
+        va_end(ap);
+
+        return r;
+}
+
+int json_appendv(JsonVariant **v, va_list ap) {
+        _cleanup_(json_variant_unrefp) JsonVariant *w = NULL;
+        int r;
+
+        assert(v);
+
+        r = json_buildv(&w, ap);
+        if (r < 0)
+                return r;
+
+        return json_variant_merge(v, w);
+}
+
+int json_append(JsonVariant **v, ...) {
+        va_list ap;
+        int r;
+
+        va_start(ap, v);
+        r = json_appendv(v, ap);
+        va_end(ap);
+
+        return r;
+}
+
+int json_log_internal(
+                JsonVariant *variant,
+                int level,
+                int error,
+                const char *file,
+                int line,
+                const char *func,
+                const char *format, ...) {
+
+        PROTECT_ERRNO;
+
+        unsigned source_line, source_column;
+        char buffer[LINE_MAX];
+        const char *source;
+        va_list ap;
+        int r;
+
+        errno = ERRNO_VALUE(error);
+
+        va_start(ap, format);
+        (void) vsnprintf(buffer, sizeof buffer, format, ap);
+        va_end(ap);
+
+        if (variant) {
+                r = json_variant_get_source(variant, &source, &source_line, &source_column);
+                if (r < 0)
+                        return r;
+        } else {
+                source = NULL;
+                source_line = 0;
+                source_column = 0;
+        }
+
+        if (source && source_line > 0 && source_column > 0)
+                return log_struct_internal(
+                                level,
+                                error,
+                                file, line, func,
+                                "MESSAGE_ID=" SD_MESSAGE_INVALID_CONFIGURATION_STR,
+                                "CONFIG_FILE=%s", source,
+                                "CONFIG_LINE=%u", source_line,
+                                "CONFIG_COLUMN=%u", source_column,
+                                LOG_MESSAGE("%s:%u:%u: %s", source, source_line, source_column, buffer),
+                                NULL);
+        else if (source_line > 0 && source_column > 0)
+                return log_struct_internal(
+                                level,
+                                error,
+                                file, line, func,
+                                "MESSAGE_ID=" SD_MESSAGE_INVALID_CONFIGURATION_STR,
+                                "CONFIG_LINE=%u", source_line,
+                                "CONFIG_COLUMN=%u", source_column,
+                                LOG_MESSAGE("(string):%u:%u: %s", source_line, source_column, buffer),
+                                NULL);
+        else
+                return log_struct_internal(
+                                level,
+                                error,
+                                file, line, func,
+                                "MESSAGE_ID=" SD_MESSAGE_INVALID_CONFIGURATION_STR,
+                                LOG_MESSAGE("%s", buffer),
+                                NULL);
+}
+
+static void *dispatch_userdata(const JsonDispatch *p, void *userdata) {
+
+        /* When the the userdata pointer is passed in as NULL, then we'll just use the offset as a literal
+         * address, and convert it to a pointer.  Note that might as well just add the offset to the NULL
+         * pointer, but UndefinedBehaviourSanitizer doesn't like pointer arithmetics based on NULL pointers,
+         * hence we code this explicitly here. */
+
+        if (userdata)
+                return (uint8_t*) userdata + p->offset;
+
+        return SIZE_TO_PTR(p->offset);
+}
+
+int json_dispatch(JsonVariant *v, const JsonDispatch table[], JsonDispatchCallback bad, JsonDispatchFlags flags, void *userdata) {
+        size_t m;
+        int r, done = 0;
+        bool *found;
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_object(v)) {
+                json_log(v, flags, 0, "JSON variant is not an object.");
+
+                if (flags & JSON_PERMISSIVE)
+                        return 0;
+
+                return -EINVAL;
+        }
+
+        m = 0;
+        for (const JsonDispatch *p = table; p->name; p++)
+                m++;
+
+        found = newa0(bool, m);
+
+        size_t n = json_variant_elements(v);
+        for (size_t i = 0; i < n; i += 2) {
+                JsonVariant *key, *value;
+                const JsonDispatch *p;
+
+                assert_se(key = json_variant_by_index(v, i));
+                assert_se(value = json_variant_by_index(v, i+1));
+
+                for (p = table; p->name; p++)
+                        if (p->name == POINTER_MAX ||
+                            streq_ptr(json_variant_string(key), p->name))
+                                break;
+
+                if (p->name) { /* Found a matching entry! :-) */
+                        JsonDispatchFlags merged_flags;
+
+                        merged_flags = flags | p->flags;
+
+                        if (p->type != _JSON_VARIANT_TYPE_INVALID &&
+                            !json_variant_has_type(value, p->type)) {
+
+                                json_log(value, merged_flags, 0,
+                                         "Object field '%s' has wrong type %s, expected %s.", json_variant_string(key),
+                                         json_variant_type_to_string(json_variant_type(value)), json_variant_type_to_string(p->type));
+
+                                if (merged_flags & JSON_PERMISSIVE)
+                                        continue;
+
+                                return -EINVAL;
+                        }
+
+                        if (found[p-table]) {
+                                json_log(value, merged_flags, 0, "Duplicate object field '%s'.", json_variant_string(key));
+
+                                if (merged_flags & JSON_PERMISSIVE)
+                                        continue;
+
+                                return -ENOTUNIQ;
+                        }
+
+                        found[p-table] = true;
+
+                        if (p->callback) {
+                                r = p->callback(json_variant_string(key), value, merged_flags, dispatch_userdata(p, userdata));
+                                if (r < 0) {
+                                        if (merged_flags & JSON_PERMISSIVE)
+                                                continue;
+
+                                        return r;
+                                }
+                        }
+
+                        done ++;
+
+                } else { /* Didn't find a matching entry! :-( */
+
+                        if (bad) {
+                                r = bad(json_variant_string(key), value, flags, userdata);
+                                if (r < 0) {
+                                        if (flags & JSON_PERMISSIVE)
+                                                continue;
+
+                                        return r;
+                                } else
+                                        done ++;
+
+                        } else  {
+                                json_log(value, flags, 0, "Unexpected object field '%s'.", json_variant_string(key));
+
+                                if (flags & JSON_PERMISSIVE)
+                                        continue;
+
+                                return -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
+                        }
+                }
+        }
+
+        for (const JsonDispatch *p = table; p->name; p++) {
+                JsonDispatchFlags merged_flags = p->flags | flags;
+
+                if ((merged_flags & JSON_MANDATORY) && !found[p-table]) {
+                        json_log(v, merged_flags, 0, "Missing object field '%s'.", p->name);
+
+                        if ((merged_flags & JSON_PERMISSIVE))
+                                continue;
+
+                        return -ENXIO;
+                }
+        }
+
+        return done;
+}
+
+int json_dispatch_boolean(const char *name, JsonVariant *variant, JsonDispatchFlags flags, void *userdata) {
+        bool *b = ASSERT_PTR(userdata);
+
+        assert(variant);
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_boolean(variant))
+                return json_log(variant, flags, SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "JSON field '%s' is not a boolean.", strna(name));
+
+        *b = json_variant_boolean(variant);
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_dispatch_tristate(const char *name, JsonVariant *variant, JsonDispatchFlags flags, void *userdata) {
+        int *b = ASSERT_PTR(userdata);
+
+        assert(variant);
+
+        if (json_variant_is_null(variant)) {
+                *b = -1;
+                return 0;
+        }
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_boolean(variant))
+                return json_log(variant, flags, SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "JSON field '%s' is not a boolean.", strna(name));
+
+        *b = json_variant_boolean(variant);
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_dispatch_int64(const char *name, JsonVariant *variant, JsonDispatchFlags flags, void *userdata) {
+        int64_t *i = ASSERT_PTR(userdata);
+
+        assert(variant);
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_integer(variant))
+                return json_log(variant, flags, SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "JSON field '%s' is not an integer.", strna(name));
+
+        *i = json_variant_integer(variant);
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_dispatch_uint64(const char *name, JsonVariant *variant, JsonDispatchFlags flags, void *userdata) {
+        uint64_t *u = ASSERT_PTR(userdata);
+
+        assert(variant);
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_unsigned(variant))
+                return json_log(variant, flags, SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "JSON field '%s' is not an unsigned integer.", strna(name));
+
+        *u = json_variant_unsigned(variant);
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_dispatch_uint32(const char *name, JsonVariant *variant, JsonDispatchFlags flags, void *userdata) {
+        uint32_t *u = ASSERT_PTR(userdata);
+
+        assert(variant);
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_unsigned(variant))
+                return json_log(variant, flags, SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "JSON field '%s' is not an unsigned integer.", strna(name));
+
+        if (json_variant_unsigned(variant) > UINT32_MAX)
+                return json_log(variant, flags, SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(ERANGE), "JSON field '%s' out of bounds.", strna(name));
+
+        *u = (uint32_t) json_variant_unsigned(variant);
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_dispatch_int32(const char *name, JsonVariant *variant, JsonDispatchFlags flags, void *userdata) {
+        int32_t *i = ASSERT_PTR(userdata);
+
+        assert(variant);
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_integer(variant))
+                return json_log(variant, flags, SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "JSON field '%s' is not an integer.", strna(name));
+
+        if (json_variant_integer(variant) < INT32_MIN || json_variant_integer(variant) > INT32_MAX)
+                return json_log(variant, flags, SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(ERANGE), "JSON field '%s' out of bounds.", strna(name));
+
+        *i = (int32_t) json_variant_integer(variant);
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_dispatch_int16(const char *name, JsonVariant *variant, JsonDispatchFlags flags, void *userdata) {
+        int16_t *i = ASSERT_PTR(userdata);
+
+        assert(variant);
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_integer(variant))
+                return json_log(variant, flags, SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "JSON field '%s' is not an integer.", strna(name));
+
+        if (json_variant_integer(variant) < INT16_MIN || json_variant_integer(variant) > INT16_MAX)
+                return json_log(variant, flags, SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(ERANGE), "JSON field '%s' out of bounds.", strna(name));
+
+        *i = (int16_t) json_variant_integer(variant);
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_dispatch_uint16(const char *name, JsonVariant *variant, JsonDispatchFlags flags, void *userdata) {
+        uint16_t *i = ASSERT_PTR(userdata);
+
+        assert(variant);
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_unsigned(variant))
+                return json_log(variant, flags, SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "JSON field '%s' is not an unsigned integer.", strna(name));
+
+        if (json_variant_unsigned(variant) > UINT16_MAX)
+                return json_log(variant, flags, SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(ERANGE), "JSON field '%s' out of bounds.", strna(name));
+
+        *i = (uint16_t) json_variant_unsigned(variant);
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_dispatch_string(const char *name, JsonVariant *variant, JsonDispatchFlags flags, void *userdata) {
+        char **s = ASSERT_PTR(userdata);
+        int r;
+
+        assert(variant);
+
+        if (json_variant_is_null(variant)) {
+                *s = mfree(*s);
+                return 0;
+        }
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_string(variant))
+                return json_log(variant, flags, SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "JSON field '%s' is not a string.", strna(name));
+
+        if ((flags & JSON_SAFE) && !string_is_safe(json_variant_string(variant)))
+                return json_log(variant, flags, SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "JSON field '%s' contains unsafe characters, refusing.", strna(name));
+
+        r = free_and_strdup(s, json_variant_string(variant));
+        if (r < 0)
+                return json_log(variant, flags, r, "Failed to allocate string: %m");
+
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_dispatch_const_string(const char *name, JsonVariant *variant, JsonDispatchFlags flags, void *userdata) {
+        const char **s = ASSERT_PTR(userdata);
+
+        assert(variant);
+
+        if (json_variant_is_null(variant)) {
+                *s = NULL;
+                return 0;
+        }
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_string(variant))
+                return json_log(variant, flags, SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "JSON field '%s' is not a string.", strna(name));
+
+        if ((flags & JSON_SAFE) && !string_is_safe(json_variant_string(variant)))
+                return json_log(variant, flags, SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "JSON field '%s' contains unsafe characters, refusing.", strna(name));
+
+        *s = json_variant_string(variant);
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_dispatch_strv(const char *name, JsonVariant *variant, JsonDispatchFlags flags, void *userdata) {
+        _cleanup_strv_free_ char **l = NULL;
+        char ***s = ASSERT_PTR(userdata);
+        JsonVariant *e;
+        int r;
+
+        assert(variant);
+
+        if (json_variant_is_null(variant)) {
+                *s = strv_free(*s);
+                return 0;
+        }
+
+        /* Let's be flexible here: accept a single string in place of a single-item array */
+        if (json_variant_is_string(variant)) {
+                if ((flags & JSON_SAFE) && !string_is_safe(json_variant_string(variant)))
+                        return json_log(variant, flags, SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "JSON field '%s' contains unsafe characters, refusing.", strna(name));
+
+                l = strv_new(json_variant_string(variant));
+                if (!l)
+                        return log_oom();
+
+                strv_free_and_replace(*s, l);
+                return 0;
+        }
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_array(variant))
+                return json_log(variant, SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), flags, "JSON field '%s' is not an array.", strna(name));
+
+        JSON_VARIANT_ARRAY_FOREACH(e, variant) {
+                if (!json_variant_is_string(e))
+                        return json_log(e, flags, SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "JSON array element is not a string.");
+
+                if ((flags & JSON_SAFE) && !string_is_safe(json_variant_string(e)))
+                        return json_log(e, flags, SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "JSON field '%s' contains unsafe characters, refusing.", strna(name));
+
+                r = strv_extend(&l, json_variant_string(e));
+                if (r < 0)
+                        return json_log(e, flags, r, "Failed to append array element: %m");
+        }
+
+        strv_free_and_replace(*s, l);
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_dispatch_variant(const char *name, JsonVariant *variant, JsonDispatchFlags flags, void *userdata) {
+        JsonVariant **p = ASSERT_PTR(userdata);
+        assert(variant);
+
+        JSON_VARIANT_REPLACE(*p, json_variant_ref(variant));
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_dispatch_uid_gid(const char *name, JsonVariant *variant, JsonDispatchFlags flags, void *userdata) {
+        uid_t *uid = userdata;
+        uint64_t k;
+
+        assert_cc(sizeof(uid_t) == sizeof(uint32_t));
+        assert_cc(sizeof(gid_t) == sizeof(uint32_t));
+
+        DISABLE_WARNING_TYPE_LIMITS;
+        assert_cc((UID_INVALID < (uid_t) 0) == (GID_INVALID < (gid_t) 0));
+        REENABLE_WARNING;
+
+        if (json_variant_is_null(variant)) {
+                *uid = UID_INVALID;
+                return 0;
+        }
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_unsigned(variant))
+                return json_log(variant, flags, SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "JSON field '%s' is not an integer.", strna(name));
+
+        k = json_variant_unsigned(variant);
+        if (k > UINT32_MAX || !uid_is_valid(k))
+                return json_log(variant, flags, SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "JSON field '%s' is not a valid UID/GID.", strna(name));
+
+        *uid = k;
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_dispatch_user_group_name(const char *name, JsonVariant *variant, JsonDispatchFlags flags, void *userdata) {
+        char **s = userdata;
+        const char *n;
+        int r;
+
+        if (json_variant_is_null(variant)) {
+                *s = mfree(*s);
+                return 0;
+        }
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_string(variant))
+                return json_log(variant, flags, SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "JSON field '%s' is not a string.", strna(name));
+
+        n = json_variant_string(variant);
+        if (!valid_user_group_name(n, FLAGS_SET(flags, JSON_RELAX) ? VALID_USER_RELAX : 0))
+                return json_log(variant, flags, SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "JSON field '%s' is not a valid user/group name.", strna(name));
+
+        r = free_and_strdup(s, n);
+        if (r < 0)
+                return json_log(variant, flags, r, "Failed to allocate string: %m");
+
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_dispatch_id128(const char *name, JsonVariant *variant, JsonDispatchFlags flags, void *userdata) {
+        sd_id128_t *uuid = userdata;
+        int r;
+
+        if (json_variant_is_null(variant)) {
+                *uuid = SD_ID128_NULL;
+                return 0;
+        }
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_string(variant))
+                return json_log(variant, flags, SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "JSON field '%s' is not a string.", strna(name));
+
+        r = sd_id128_from_string(json_variant_string(variant), uuid);
+        if (r < 0)
+                return json_log(variant, flags, r, "JSON field '%s' is not a valid UID.", strna(name));
+
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int json_dispatch_unsupported(const char *name, JsonVariant *variant, JsonDispatchFlags flags, void *userdata) {
+        return json_log(variant, flags, SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "JSON field '%s' is not allowed in this object.", strna(name));
+}
+
+static int json_cmp_strings(const void *x, const void *y) {
+        JsonVariant *const *a = x, *const *b = y;
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_string(*a) || !json_variant_is_string(*b))
+                return CMP(*a, *b);
+
+        return strcmp(json_variant_string(*a), json_variant_string(*b));
+}
+
+int json_variant_sort(JsonVariant **v) {
+        _cleanup_free_ JsonVariant **a = NULL;
+        _cleanup_(json_variant_unrefp) JsonVariant *n = NULL;
+        size_t m;
+        int r;
+
+        assert(v);
+
+        if (json_variant_is_sorted(*v))
+                return 0;
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_object(*v))
+                return -EMEDIUMTYPE;
+
+        /* Sorts they key/value pairs in an object variant */
+
+        m = json_variant_elements(*v);
+        a = new(JsonVariant*, m);
+        if (!a)
+                return -ENOMEM;
+
+        for (size_t i = 0; i < m; i++)
+                a[i] = json_variant_by_index(*v, i);
+
+        qsort(a, m/2, sizeof(JsonVariant*)*2, json_cmp_strings);
+
+        r = json_variant_new_object(&n, a, m);
+        if (r < 0)
+                return r;
+
+        json_variant_propagate_sensitive(*v, n);
+
+        if (!n->sorted) /* Check if this worked. This will fail if there are multiple identical keys used. */
+                return -ENOTUNIQ;
+
+        JSON_VARIANT_REPLACE(*v, TAKE_PTR(n));
+
+        return 1;
+}
+
+int json_variant_normalize(JsonVariant **v) {
+        _cleanup_free_ JsonVariant **a = NULL;
+        _cleanup_(json_variant_unrefp) JsonVariant *n = NULL;
+        size_t i, m;
+        int r;
+
+        assert(v);
+
+        if (json_variant_is_normalized(*v))
+                return 0;
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_object(*v) && !json_variant_is_array(*v))
+                return -EMEDIUMTYPE;
+
+        /* Sorts the key/value pairs in an object variant anywhere down the tree in the specified variant */
+
+        m = json_variant_elements(*v);
+        a = new(JsonVariant*, m);
+        if (!a)
+                return -ENOMEM;
+
+        for (i = 0; i < m; ) {
+                a[i] = json_variant_ref(json_variant_by_index(*v, i));
+                i++;
+
+                r = json_variant_normalize(&a[i-1]);
+                if (r < 0)
+                        goto finish;
+        }
+
+        qsort(a, m/2, sizeof(JsonVariant*)*2, json_cmp_strings);
+
+        if (json_variant_is_object(*v))
+                r = json_variant_new_object(&n, a, m);
+        else {
+                assert(json_variant_is_array(*v));
+                r = json_variant_new_array(&n, a, m);
+        }
+        if (r < 0)
+                goto finish;
+
+        json_variant_propagate_sensitive(*v, n);
+
+        if (!n->normalized) { /* Let's see if normalization worked. It will fail if there are multiple
+                               * identical keys used in the same object anywhere, or if there are floating
+                               * point numbers used (see below) */
+                r = -ENOTUNIQ;
+                goto finish;
+        }
+
+        JSON_VARIANT_REPLACE(*v, TAKE_PTR(n));
+
+        r = 1;
+
+finish:
+        for (size_t j = 0; j < i; j++)
+                json_variant_unref(a[j]);
+
+        return r;
+}
+
+bool json_variant_is_normalized(JsonVariant *v) {
+        /* For now, let's consider anything containing numbers not expressible as integers as non-normalized.
+         * That's because we cannot sensibly compare them due to accuracy issues, nor even store them if they
+         * are too large. */
+        if (json_variant_is_real(v) && !json_variant_is_integer(v) && !json_variant_is_unsigned(v))
+                return false;
+
+        /* The concept only applies to variants that include other variants, i.e. objects and arrays. All
+         * others are normalized anyway. */
+        if (!json_variant_is_object(v) && !json_variant_is_array(v))
+                return true;
+
+        /* Empty objects/arrays don't include any other variant, hence are always normalized too */
+        if (json_variant_elements(v) == 0)
+                return true;
+
+        return v->normalized; /* For everything else there's an explicit boolean we maintain */
+}
+
+bool json_variant_is_sorted(JsonVariant *v) {
+
+        /* Returns true if all key/value pairs of an object are properly sorted. Note that this only applies
+         * to objects, not arrays. */
+
+        if (!json_variant_is_object(v))
+                return true;
+        if (json_variant_elements(v) <= 1)
+                return true;
+
+        return v->sorted;
+}
+
+int json_variant_unbase64(JsonVariant *v, void **ret, size_t *ret_size) {
+        if (!json_variant_is_string(v))
+                return -EINVAL;
+
+        return unbase64mem(json_variant_string(v), SIZE_MAX, ret, ret_size);
+}
+
+int json_variant_unhex(JsonVariant *v, void **ret, size_t *ret_size) {
+        if (!json_variant_is_string(v))
+                return -EINVAL;
+
+        return unhexmem(json_variant_string(v), SIZE_MAX, ret, ret_size);
+}
+
+static const char* const json_variant_type_table[_JSON_VARIANT_TYPE_MAX] = {
+        [JSON_VARIANT_STRING]   = "string",
+        [JSON_VARIANT_INTEGER]  = "integer",
+        [JSON_VARIANT_UNSIGNED] = "unsigned",
+        [JSON_VARIANT_REAL]     = "real",
+        [JSON_VARIANT_NUMBER]   = "number",
+        [JSON_VARIANT_BOOLEAN]  = "boolean",
+        [JSON_VARIANT_ARRAY]    = "array",
+        [JSON_VARIANT_OBJECT]   = "object",
+        [JSON_VARIANT_NULL]     = "null",
+};
+
+DEFINE_STRING_TABLE_LOOKUP(json_variant_type, JsonVariantType);