Reduce indirection.

pkg/resource/generationbehavior.go

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+/*
+Copyright 2018 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
+
+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 resource
+
+// GenerationBehavior specifies generation behavior of configmaps, secrets and maybe other resources.
+type GenerationBehavior int
+
+const (
+	// Unspecified behavior typically treated as a Create.
+	BehaviorUnspecified GenerationBehavior = iota
+	// Make a new resource.
+	BehaviorCreate
+	// Replace a resource.
+	BehaviorReplace
+	// Attempt to merge a new resource with an existing resource.
+	BehaviorMerge
+)
+
+// String converts a GenerationBehavior to a string.
+func (b GenerationBehavior) String() string {
+	switch b {
+	case BehaviorReplace:
+		return "replace"
+	case BehaviorMerge:
+		return "merge"
+	case BehaviorCreate:
+		return "create"
+	default:
+		return "unspecified"
+	}
+}
+
+// NewGenerationBehavior converts a string to a GenerationBehavior.
+func NewGenerationBehavior(s string) GenerationBehavior {
+	switch s {
+	case "replace":
+		return BehaviorReplace
+	case "merge":
+		return BehaviorMerge
+	case "create":
+		return BehaviorCreate
+	default:
+		return BehaviorUnspecified
+	}
+}