fix patch for anonymous struct fields

pkg/apiserver/resthandler_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2014 The Kubernetes Authors All rights reserved.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+package apiserver
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api"
+	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api/unversioned"
+)
+
+type testPatchType struct {
+	unversioned.TypeMeta `json:",inline"`
+
+	testPatchSubType `json:",inline"`
+}
+
+type testPatchSubType struct {
+	StringField string `json:"theField"`
+}
+
+func (*testPatchType) IsAnAPIObject() {}
+
+func TestPatchAnonymousField(t *testing.T) {
+	originalJS := `{"kind":"testPatchType","theField":"my-value"}`
+	patch := `{"theField": "changed!"}`
+	expectedJS := `{"kind":"testPatchType","theField":"changed!"}`
+
+	actualBytes, err := getPatchedJS(string(api.StrategicMergePatchType), []byte(originalJS), []byte(patch), &testPatchType{})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %v", err)
+	}
+	if string(actualBytes) != expectedJS {
+		t.Errorf("expected %v, got %v", expectedJS, string(actualBytes))
+	}
+
+}

third_party/forked/json/fields.go

@@ -44,9 +44,12 @@ func LookupPatchMetadata(t reflect.Type, jsonField string) (reflect.Type, string
 		}
 	}
 	if f != nil {
-		// Find the reflect.Value of the most preferential
-		// struct field.
+		// Find the reflect.Value of the most preferential struct field.
 		tjf := t.Field(f.index[0])
+		// we must navigate down all the anonymously included structs in the chain
+		for i := 1; i < len(f.index); i++ {
+			tjf = tjf.Type.Field(f.index[i])
+		}
 		patchStrategy := tjf.Tag.Get("patchStrategy")
 		patchMergeKey := tjf.Tag.Get("patchMergeKey")
 		return tjf.Type, patchStrategy, patchMergeKey, nil
@@ -60,13 +63,20 @@ type field struct {
 	nameBytes []byte                 // []byte(name)
 	equalFold func(s, t []byte) bool // bytes.EqualFold or equivalent
 
-	tag       bool
+	tag bool
+	// index is the sequence of indexes from the containing type fields to this field.
+	// it is a slice because anonymous structs will need multiple navigation steps to correctly
+	// resolve the proper fields
 	index     []int
 	typ       reflect.Type
 	omitEmpty bool
 	quoted    bool
 }
 
+func (f field) String() string {
+	return fmt.Sprintf("{name: %s, type: %v, tag: %v, index: %v, omitEmpty: %v, quoted: %v}", f.name, f.typ, f.tag, f.index, f.omitEmpty, f.quoted)
+}
+
 func fillField(f field) field {
 	f.nameBytes = []byte(f.name)
 	f.equalFold = foldFunc(f.nameBytes)