From 368697f8ef43eed5da813cb80dab9f3da2d5cf31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jabar Asadi <jasadi@d2iq.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2022 17:14:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] feat: Allow paths starting with slash

---
 kyaml/utils/pathsplitter.go      | 7 +++++++
 kyaml/utils/pathsplitter_test.go | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kyaml/utils/pathsplitter.go b/kyaml/utils/pathsplitter.go
index aa560299f..6ce1f899d 100644
--- a/kyaml/utils/pathsplitter.go
+++ b/kyaml/utils/pathsplitter.go
@@ -11,6 +11,13 @@ import "strings"
 func PathSplitter(path string, delimiter string) []string {
 	ps := strings.Split(path, delimiter)
 	var res []string
+
+	// allow path to start with forward slash
+	// i.e. /a/b/c
+	if len(ps) > 1 && ps[0] == "" {
+		ps = ps[1:]
+	}
+
 	res = append(res, ps[0])
 	for i := 1; i < len(ps); i++ {
 		last := len(res) - 1
diff --git a/kyaml/utils/pathsplitter_test.go b/kyaml/utils/pathsplitter_test.go
index 180f3e259..6878c582a 100644
--- a/kyaml/utils/pathsplitter_test.go
+++ b/kyaml/utils/pathsplitter_test.go
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ func TestPathSplitter(t *testing.T) {
 			path: "a/b/c",
 			exp:  []string{"a", "b", "c"},
 		},
+		{
+			path: "/a/b/c",
+			exp:  []string{"a", "b", "c"},
+		},
 		{
 			path: `a/b[]/c`,
 			exp:  []string{"a", "b[]", "c"},