Added code for fields with dots(.) in their names work as needed (#4591)

* Added code for fields with dots(.) in their names work as needed

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* Fixed imports

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* Removed comments

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* Fix filter method

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* Fixed failing tests

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* Remove comments

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api/filters/fieldspec/fieldspec.go

@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/filtersutil"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/utils"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/errors"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/resid"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/utils"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/yaml"
 )
 

api/filters/replacement/replacement.go

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import (
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resource"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/resid"
+	kyaml_utils "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/utils"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/yaml"
 )
 
@@ -114,7 +115,7 @@ func rejectId(rejects []*types.Selector, id *resid.ResId) bool {
 
 func applyToNode(node *yaml.RNode, value *yaml.RNode, target *types.TargetSelector) error {
 	for _, fp := range target.FieldPaths {
-		fieldPath := utils.SmarterPathSplitter(fp, ".")
+		fieldPath := kyaml_utils.SmarterPathSplitter(fp, ".")
 		var t *yaml.RNode
 		var err error
 		if target.Options != nil && target.Options.Create {
@@ -199,7 +200,7 @@ func getReplacement(nodes []*yaml.RNode, r *types.Replacement) (*yaml.RNode, err
 	if r.Source.FieldPath == "" {
 		r.Source.FieldPath = types.DefaultReplacementFieldPath
 	}
-	fieldPath := utils.SmarterPathSplitter(r.Source.FieldPath, ".")
+	fieldPath := kyaml_utils.SmarterPathSplitter(r.Source.FieldPath, ".")
 
 	rn, err := source.Pipe(yaml.Lookup(fieldPath...))
 	if err != nil {

kyaml/utils/pathsplitter_test.go

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
-	. "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/utils"
+	. "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/utils"
 )
 
 func TestPathSplitter(t *testing.T) {

kyaml/yaml/rnode.go

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import (
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/errors"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/internal/forked/github.com/go-yaml/yaml"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/sliceutil"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/utils"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/yaml/internal/k8sgen/pkg/labels"
 )
 
@@ -1207,7 +1208,7 @@ func (rn *RNode) GetString(path string) (string, error) {
 // assuming we keep the var feature in kustomize.
 // The other end of this is: refvar.go:updateNodeValue.
 func (rn *RNode) GetFieldValue(path string) (interface{}, error) {
-	fields := convertSliceIndex(strings.Split(path, "."))
+	fields := convertSliceIndex(utils.SmarterPathSplitter(path, "."))
 	rn, err := rn.Pipe(Lookup(fields...))
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err

kyaml/yaml/rnode_test.go

@@ -2310,8 +2310,6 @@ func TestGetAnnotations(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestGetFieldValueWithDot(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Skip()
-
 	const input = `
 kind: Pod
 metadata:
@@ -2330,8 +2328,6 @@ metadata:
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 	require.Equal(t, "hello-world-app", app)
 
-	// TODO: doesn't currently work; we expect to be able to escape the dot in future
-	// https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/issues/4487
 	fooAppName, err := labelRNode.GetFieldValue(`foo\.appname`)
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 	require.Equal(t, "hello-world-foo", fooAppName) // no field named 'foo.appname'