vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/extension.go

/*
Copyright 2014 The Kubernetes Authors.

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

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See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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*/

package runtime

import (
	"bytes"
	"encoding/json"
	"errors"
)

func (re *RawExtension) UnmarshalJSON(in []byte) error {
	if re == nil {
		return errors.New("runtime.RawExtension: UnmarshalJSON on nil pointer")
	}
	if !bytes.Equal(in, []byte("null")) {
		re.Raw = append(re.Raw[0:0], in...)
	}
	return nil
}

// MarshalJSON may get called on pointers or values, so implement MarshalJSON on value.
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21390979/custom-marshaljson-never-gets-called-in-go
func (re RawExtension) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
	if re.Raw == nil {
		// TODO: this is to support legacy behavior of JSONPrinter and YAMLPrinter, which
		// expect to call json.Marshal on arbitrary versioned objects (even those not in
		// the scheme). pkg/kubectl/resource#AsVersionedObjects and its interaction with
		// kubectl get on objects not in the scheme needs to be updated to ensure that the
		// objects that are not part of the scheme are correctly put into the right form.
		if re.Object != nil {
			return json.Marshal(re.Object)
		}
		return []byte("null"), nil
	}
	// TODO: Check whether ContentType is actually JSON before returning it.
	return re.Raw, nil
}