The existing admission webhook integration test provides good coverage of serving built-in resources
and custom resources, including subresources. Serialization concerns, including roundtrippability,
of built-in types have existing test coverage; the CBOR variant of the admission webhook integration
test additionally exercises client and server codec wiring.
Codecs is already exported, but in order for tests to construct an alternate CodecFactory for meta's
internal version types, they either need to be able to reference the scheme or to construct a
parallel scheme, and a parallel scheme construction risks going out of sync with the way the
package-scoped scheme object is initialized.
As with the apiserver feature gate for CBOR as a serving and storage encoding, the client feature
gates for CBOR are being initially added through a test-only feature gate instance that is not wired
to environment variables or to command-line flags and is intended only to be enabled
programmatically from integration tests. The test-only instance will be removed as part of alpha
graduation and replaced by conventional client feature gating.
To mitigate the risk of introducing a new protocol, integration tests for CBOR will be written using
a test-only feature gate instance that is not wired to runtime options. On alpha graduation, the
test-only feature gate instance will be replaced by a normal feature gate in the existing apiserver
feature gate instance.
CodecFactory construction uses an unexported struct type named "serializerType" to hold serializer
definitions. There are few differences between it and runtime.SerializerInfo, and they do not appear
to be used anymore. For example, serializerType includes an unused FileExtensions field, and has
distinct ContentType (singular) and AcceptContentTypes (plural) fields instead of
runtime.SerializeInfo's singular MediaType. All remaining uses of serializerType set
AcceptContentTypes to a single-entry slice whose element is equal to its ContentType field.
During construction of a CodecFactory, all serializerType values were already being mechanically
translated into runtime.SerializerInfo values.
Moving to an exported type for serializer definitions makes it easier to expose an option to allow
callers to register their own serializer definitions, which in turn makes it possible to
conditionally include new serializers at runtime (especially behind feature gates).
