Add a server side export facility

pkg/api/rest/export.go

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+/*
+Copyright 2015 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 rest
+
+import (
+	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/runtime"
+)
+
+// RESTExportStrategy is the interface that defines how to export a Kubernetes object
+type RESTExportStrategy interface {
+	// Export strips fields that can not be set by the user.  If 'exact' is false
+	// fields specific to the cluster are also stripped
+	Export(obj runtime.Object, exact bool) error
+}