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Matteo Scandoloa4285862020-12-01 18:10:10 -08001/*
2Copyright 2014 The Kubernetes Authors.
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16
17// Package runtime includes helper functions for working with API objects
18// that follow the kubernetes API object conventions, which are:
19//
20// 0. Your API objects have a common metadata struct member, TypeMeta.
21//
22// 1. Your code refers to an internal set of API objects.
23//
24// 2. In a separate package, you have an external set of API objects.
25//
26// 3. The external set is considered to be versioned, and no breaking
27// changes are ever made to it (fields may be added but not changed
28// or removed).
29//
30// 4. As your api evolves, you'll make an additional versioned package
31// with every major change.
32//
33// 5. Versioned packages have conversion functions which convert to
34// and from the internal version.
35//
36// 6. You'll continue to support older versions according to your
37// deprecation policy, and you can easily provide a program/library
38// to update old versions into new versions because of 5.
39//
40// 7. All of your serializations and deserializations are handled in a
41// centralized place.
42//
43// Package runtime provides a conversion helper to make 5 easy, and the
44// Encode/Decode/DecodeInto trio to accomplish 7. You can also register
45// additional "codecs" which use a version of your choice. It's
46// recommended that you register your types with runtime in your
47// package's init function.
48//
49// As a bonus, a few common types useful from all api objects and versions
50// are provided in types.go.
51package runtime // import "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime"