implements to replacements value in the structured data

Author: koba1t

api/filters/replacement/replacement_test.go

@@ -2779,7 +2779,7 @@ spec:
           name: myingress
         fieldPaths:
           - spec.tls.0.hosts.0
-          - spec.tls.0.secretName          
+          - spec.tls.0.secretName
         options:
           create: true
 `,
@@ -2855,3 +2855,74 @@ spec:
 		})
 	}
 }
+
+func TestValueInlineStructuredData(t *testing.T) {
+	testCases := map[string]struct {
+		input        string
+		replacements string
+		expected     string
+		expectedErr  string
+	}{
+		"replacement contain jsonfield": {
+			input: `apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: target-configmap
+data:
+  config.json: |-
+    {
+      "config": {
+        "id": "42",
+        "hostname": "REPLACE_TARGET_HOSTNAME"
+      }
+    }
+`,
+			replacements: `replacements:
+- source:
+    kind: ConfigMap
+    name: target-configmap
+    fieldPath: metadata.name
+  targets:
+  - select:
+      kind: ConfigMap
+    fieldPaths:
+    - data.config\.json.config.hostname
+`,
+			expected: `apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: target-configmap
+data:
+  config.json: |-
+    {
+      "config": {
+        "id": "42",
+        "hostname": "target-configmap"
+      }
+    }`,
+		},
+	}
+
+	for tn, tc := range testCases {
+		t.Run(tn, func(t *testing.T) {
+			f := Filter{}
+			err := yaml.Unmarshal([]byte(tc.replacements), &f)
+			if !assert.NoError(t, err) {
+				t.FailNow()
+			}
+			actual, err := filtertest.RunFilterE(t, tc.input, f)
+			if err != nil {
+				if tc.expectedErr == "" {
+					t.Errorf("unexpected error: %s\n", err.Error())
+					t.FailNow()
+				}
+				if !assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), tc.expectedErr) {
+					t.FailNow()
+				}
+			}
+			if !assert.Equal(t, strings.TrimSpace(tc.expected), strings.TrimSpace(actual)) {
+				t.FailNow()
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}

kyaml/yaml/fns.go

@@ -830,6 +830,10 @@ func (e *InvalidNodeKindError) Error() string {
 	return msg
 }
 
+func (e *InvalidNodeKindError) Unwrap() error {
+	return errors.Errorf("InvalidNodeKindError")
+}
+
 func (e *InvalidNodeKindError) ActualNodeKind() Kind {
 	return e.node.YNode().Kind
 }

kyaml/yaml/match.go

@@ -137,10 +137,20 @@ func (p *PathMatcher) visitEveryElem(elem *RNode) error {
 func (p *PathMatcher) doField(rn *RNode) (*RNode, error) {
 	// lookup the field
 	field, err := rn.Pipe(Get(p.Path[0]))
-	if err != nil || (!IsCreate(p.Create) && field == nil) {
+	if err != nil {
+		// check error is an invalid kind error
+		invalidKindErr := &InvalidNodeKindError{}
+		if errors.As(err, &invalidKindErr) {
+			// if the field is valid json or yaml, continue to lookup the next part of the path
+			fmt.Print("-----------------------------\nOUTPUT: ", err)
+		}
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
+	if !IsCreate(p.Create) && field == nil {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+
 	if IsCreate(p.Create) && field == nil {
 		var nextPart string
 		if len(p.Path) > 1 {