Merge pull request #3068 from monopole/pinToKyamlv0.9.1_cliUtilsv0.20.4

Pin to kyaml/v0.9.1 and cli-utils/v0.20.4

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.md

@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+---
+name: Bug report
+about: Create a report to help us improve
+title: ""
+labels:
+  - kind/bug
+assignees: ""
+---
+
+<!--
+Please read this page: https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/kustomize/contributing/bugs/ before
+filing a bug
+-->
+
+<!-- Feel free to skip the sections if they are not applicable. -->
+
+**Describe the bug**
+
+<!-- A clear and concise description of what the bug is. -->
+
+**Files that can reproduce the issue**
+
+<!--
+We cannot figure out or fix the issue if we don't know how to reproduce. Please
+provide a minimum set of files that can reproduce the issue. You can paste the
+file contents here or provide a link to a tarball or git repo.
+
+Example:
+
+kustomization.yaml
+
+```
+apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: Kustomization
+resources:
+...
+```
+
+resources.yaml
+
+```
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Deployment
+...
+```
+
+...
+-->
+
+**Expected output**
+
+<!-- What's the expected output? -->
+
+**Actual output**
+
+<!-- What's the actual output? -->
+
+**Kustomize version**
+
+<!-- Please use the latest version when it's possible. -->
+
+**Platform**
+
+<!-- Linux/macOS/Windows? -->
+
+**Additional context**
+
+<!-- Add any other context about the problem here. -->

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/config.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+blank_issues_enabled: true

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.md

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+---
+name: Feature request
+about: Suggest an idea for this project
+title: ""
+labels:
+  - kind/feature
+assignees: ""
+---
+
+<!-- Feel free to skip the sections if they are not applicable. -->
+
+**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
+
+<!-- A clear and concise description of what the problem is. Ex. I'm always frustrated when [...] -->
+
+**Describe the solution you'd like**
+
+<!-- A clear and concise description of what you want to happen. -->
+
+**Describe alternatives you've considered**
+
+<!-- A clear and concise description of any alternative solutions or features you've considered. -->
+
+**Additional context**
+
+<!-- Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here. -->

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/question.md

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+---
+name: Question
+about: Ask a question about the kustomize
+title: "[Question]"
+labels: ""
+assignees: ""
+---
+
+<!-- Please describe your question here -->

.gitignore

@@ -19,3 +19,5 @@
 
 # macOS
 *.DS_store
+
+.bin

Makefile

@@ -14,11 +14,9 @@ all: verify-kustomize
 verify-kustomize: \
 	lint-kustomize \
 	test-unit-kustomize-all \
-	test-examples-kustomize-against-HEAD
+	test-examples-kustomize-against-HEAD \
-# TODO: restore test-examples-kustomize-against-3.5.5 \
+	test-examples-kustomize-against-3.8.0 \
-# once it works.  Likely have to fix and release 3.6
+	test-examples-kustomize-against-3.8.2
-#	test-examples-kustomize-against-3.5.4 no longer works because
-# the examples tests features not in 3.5.4
 
 # The following target referenced by a file in
 # https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/tree/master/config/jobs/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize
@@ -26,9 +24,11 @@ verify-kustomize: \
 prow-presubmit-check: \
 	lint-kustomize \
 	test-unit-kustomize-all \
-	test-examples-kustomize-against-HEAD \
 	test-unit-cmd-all \
-	test-go-mod
+	test-go-mod \
+	test-examples-kustomize-against-HEAD \
+	test-examples-kustomize-against-3.8.0 \
+	test-examples-kustomize-against-3.8.2
 
 .PHONY: verify-kustomize-e2e
 verify-kustomize-e2e: test-examples-e2e-kustomize
@@ -47,17 +47,18 @@ $(MYGOBIN)/golangci-lint-kustomize:
 		GO111MODULE=on go build -tags=tools -o $(MYGOBIN)/golangci-lint-kustomize github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/cmd/golangci-lint; \
 	)
 
-# Version pinned by api/go.mod
+$(MYGOBIN)/gorepomod:
+	cd api; \
+	go install github.com/monopole/gorepomod
+
 $(MYGOBIN)/mdrip:
 	cd api; \
 	go install github.com/monopole/mdrip
 
-# Version pinned by api/go.mod
 $(MYGOBIN)/stringer:
 	cd api; \
 	go install golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer
 
-# Version pinned by api/go.mod
 $(MYGOBIN)/goimports:
 	cd api; \
 	go install golang.org/x/tools/cmd/goimports
@@ -83,6 +84,8 @@ $(MYGOBIN)/kustomize:
 install-tools: \
 	$(MYGOBIN)/goimports \
 	$(MYGOBIN)/golangci-lint-kustomize \
+	$(MYGOBIN)/gh \
+	$(MYGOBIN)/gorepomod \
 	$(MYGOBIN)/mdrip \
 	$(MYGOBIN)/pluginator \
 	$(MYGOBIN)/stringer
@@ -198,7 +201,7 @@ build-kustomize-api: $(builtinplugins)
 
 .PHONY: test-unit-kustomize-api
 test-unit-kustomize-api: build-kustomize-api
-	cd api; go test ./...
+	cd api; go test ./...  -ldflags "-X sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/provenance.version=v444.333.222"
 
 .PHONY: test-unit-kustomize-plugins
 test-unit-kustomize-plugins:
@@ -235,10 +238,10 @@ test-examples-kustomize-against-HEAD: $(MYGOBIN)/kustomize $(MYGOBIN)/mdrip
 	./hack/testExamplesAgainstKustomize.sh HEAD
 
 .PHONY:
-test-examples-kustomize-against-3.5.4: $(MYGOBIN)/mdrip
+test-examples-kustomize-against-3.8.0: $(MYGOBIN)/mdrip
 	( \
 		set -e; \
-		tag=v3.5.4; \
+		tag=v3.8.0; \
 		/bin/rm -f $(MYGOBIN)/kustomize; \
 		echo "Installing kustomize $$tag."; \
 		GO111MODULE=on go get sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kustomize/v3@$${tag}; \
@@ -248,10 +251,10 @@ test-examples-kustomize-against-3.5.4: $(MYGOBIN)/mdrip
 	)
 
 .PHONY:
-test-examples-kustomize-against-3.5.5: $(MYGOBIN)/mdrip
+test-examples-kustomize-against-3.8.2: $(MYGOBIN)/mdrip
 	( \
 		set -e; \
-		tag=v3.5.5; \
+		tag=v3.8.2; \
 		/bin/rm -f $(MYGOBIN)/kustomize; \
 		echo "Installing kustomize $$tag."; \
 		GO111MODULE=on go get sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kustomize/v3@$${tag}; \
@@ -260,7 +263,6 @@ test-examples-kustomize-against-3.5.5: $(MYGOBIN)/mdrip
 		cd kustomize; go install .; \
 	)
 
-
 # linux only.
 # This is for testing an example plugin that
 # uses kubeval for validation.
@@ -320,6 +322,18 @@ $(MYGOBIN)/kind:
         rm -rf $$d; \
 	)
 
+# linux only.
+$(MYGOBIN)/gh:
+	( \
+		set -e; \
+		d=$(shell mktemp -d); cd $$d; \
+		tgzFile=gh_1.0.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz; \
+		wget https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/download/v1.0.0/$$tgzFile; \
+		tar -xvzf $$tgzFile; \
+		mv gh_1.0.0_linux_amd64/bin/gh  $(MYGOBIN)/gh; \
+		rm -rf $$d \
+	)
+
 .PHONY: clean
 clean: kustomize-external-go-plugin-clean
 	go clean --cache

OWNERS_ALIASES

@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ aliases:
     - pwittrock
     - mortent
     - phanimarupaka
+    - Shell32-Natsu

README.md

@@ -9,18 +9,15 @@ patch [kubernetes style] API objects.  It's like
 [`make`], in that what it does is declared in a file,
 and it's like [`sed`], in that it emits edited text.
 
-This tool is sponsored by [sig-cli] ([KEP]), and
+This tool is sponsored by [sig-cli] ([KEP]).
-inspired by [DAM].
+
+ - [Installation instructions](https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/kustomize/installation)
+ - [General documentation](https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/kustomize)
+ - [Examples](examples)
 
 [![Build Status](https://prow.k8s.io/badge.svg?jobs=kustomize-presubmit-master)](https://prow.k8s.io/job-history/kubernetes-jenkins/pr-logs/directory/kustomize-presubmit-master)
 [![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize)
 
-Download a binary from the [release page], or see
-these [instructions](docs/INSTALL.md).
-
-Browse the [docs](docs) or jump right into the
-tested [examples](examples).
-
 ## kubectl integration
 
 Since [v1.14][kubectl announcement] the kustomize build system has been included in kubectl.
@@ -132,20 +129,8 @@ The YAML can be directly [applied] to a cluster:
 
 ## Community
 
-To file bugs please read [this](docs/bugs.md).
+- [file a bug](https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/kustomize/contributing/bugs/) instructions
-
+- [contribute a feature](https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/kustomize/contributing/features/) instructions
-Before working on an implementation, please
-
- * Read the [eschewed feature list].
- * File an issue describing
-   how the new feature would behave
-   and label it [kind/feature].
-
-### Other communication channels
-
-- [Slack]
-- [Mailing List]
-- General kubernetes [community page]
 
 ### Code of conduct
 
@@ -154,32 +139,27 @@ is governed by the [Kubernetes Code of Conduct].
 
 [`make`]: https://www.gnu.org/software/make
 [`sed`]: https://www.gnu.org/software/sed
-[DAM]: docs/glossary.md#declarative-application-management
+[DAM]: https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/kustomize/api-reference/glossary#declarative-application-management
 [KEP]: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/blob/master/keps/sig-cli/0008-kustomize.md
 [Kubernetes Code of Conduct]: code-of-conduct.md
-[Mailing List]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubernetes-sig-cli
+[applied]: https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/kustomize/api-reference/glossary#apply
-[Slack]: https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/sig-cli
+[base]: https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/kustomize/api-reference/glossary#base
-[applied]: docs/glossary.md#apply
+[declarative configuration]: https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/kustomize/api-reference/glossary#declarative-application-management
-[base]: docs/glossary.md#base
-[community page]: http://kubernetes.io/community/
-[declarative configuration]: docs/glossary.md#declarative-application-management
-[eschewed feature list]: docs/eschewedFeatures.md
 [imageBase]: docs/images/base.jpg
 [imageOverlay]: docs/images/overlay.jpg
-[kind/feature]: /../../labels/kind%2Ffeature
 [kubectl announcement]: https://kubernetes.io/blog/2019/03/25/kubernetes-1-14-release-announcement
 [kubectl book]: https://kubectl.docs.kubernetes.io/pages/app_customization/introduction.html
 [kubernetes documentation]: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/manage-kubernetes-objects/kustomization/
-[kubernetes style]: docs/glossary.md#kubernetes-style-object
+[kubernetes style]: https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/kustomize/api-reference/glossary#kubernetes-style-object
-[kustomization]: docs/glossary.md#kustomization
+[kustomization]: https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/kustomize/api-reference/glossary#kustomization
-[overlay]: docs/glossary.md#overlay
+[overlay]: https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/kustomize/api-reference/glossary#overlay
-[overlays]: docs/glossary.md#overlay
+[overlays]: https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/kustomize/api-reference/glossary#overlay
-[release page]: /../../releases
+[release page]: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/releases
-[resource]: docs/glossary.md#resource
+[resource]: https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/kustomize/api-reference/glossary#resource
-[resources]: docs/glossary.md#resource
+[resources]: https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/kustomize/api-reference/glossary#resource
 [sig-cli]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-cli/README.md
-[variant]: docs/glossary.md#variant
+[variant]: https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/kustomize/api-reference/glossary#variant
-[variants]: docs/glossary.md#variant
+[variants]: https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/kustomize/api-reference/glossary#variant
-[v2.0.3]: /../../releases/tag/v2.0.3
+[v2.0.3]: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/releases/tag/v2.0.3
-[v2.1.0]: /../../releases/tag/v2.1.0
+[v2.1.0]: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/releases/tag/v2.1.0
-[workflows]: docs/workflows.md
+[workflows]: https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/kustomize/guides

api/builtins/AnnotationsTransformer.go

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ func (p *AnnotationsTransformerPlugin) Transform(m resmap.ResMap) error {
 		err := filtersutil.ApplyToJSON(annotations.Filter{
 			Annotations: p.Annotations,
 			FsSlice:     p.FieldSpecs,
-		}, r.Kunstructured)
+		}, r)
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}

api/builtins/ImageTagTransformer.go

@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ import (
 	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/transform"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/imagetag"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
-
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resmap"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/filtersutil"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/yaml"
 )
 
@@ -31,18 +31,19 @@ func (p *ImageTagTransformerPlugin) Config(
 
 func (p *ImageTagTransformerPlugin) Transform(m resmap.ResMap) error {
 	for _, r := range m.Resources() {
-		for _, path := range p.FieldSpecs {
+		// traverse all fields at first
-			if !r.OrgId().IsSelected(&path.Gvk) {
+		err := filtersutil.ApplyToJSON(imagetag.LegacyFilter{
-				continue
+			ImageTag: p.ImageTag,
-			}
+		}, r)
-			err := transform.MutateField(
+		if err != nil {
-				r.Map(), path.PathSlice(), false, p.mutateImage)
+			return err
-			if err != nil {
-				return err
-			}
 		}
-		// Kept for backward compatibility
+		// then use user specified field specs
-		if err := p.findAndReplaceImage(r.Map()); err != nil && r.OrgId().Kind != `CustomResourceDefinition` {
+		err = filtersutil.ApplyToJSON(imagetag.Filter{
+			ImageTag: p.ImageTag,
+			FsSlice:  p.FieldSpecs,
+		}, r)
+		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 	}

api/builtins/LabelTransformer.go

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ func (p *LabelTransformerPlugin) Transform(m resmap.ResMap) error {
 		err := filtersutil.ApplyToJSON(labels.Filter{
 			Labels:  p.Labels,
 			FsSlice: p.FieldSpecs,
-		}, r.Kunstructured)
+		}, r)
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}

api/builtins/NamespaceTransformer.go

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import (
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resid"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resmap"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resource"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/transform"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/filtersutil"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/yaml"
@@ -20,11 +19,6 @@ import (
 type NamespaceTransformerPlugin struct {
 	types.ObjectMeta `json:"metadata,omitempty" yaml:"metadata,omitempty" protobuf:"bytes,1,opt,name=metadata"`
 	FieldSpecs       []types.FieldSpec `json:"fieldSpecs,omitempty" yaml:"fieldSpecs,omitempty"`
-
-	// YAMLSupport can be set to true to use the kyaml filter instead of the
-	// kunstruct transformer.
-	// TODO: change the default to use kyaml when it is stable
-	YAMLSupport bool `json:"yamlSupport,omitempty" yaml:"yamlSupport,omitempty"`
 }
 
 func (p *NamespaceTransformerPlugin) Config(
@@ -39,35 +33,17 @@ func (p *NamespaceTransformerPlugin) Transform(m resmap.ResMap) error {
 		return nil
 	}
 	for _, r := range m.Resources() {
-		if len(r.Map()) == 0 {
+		if r.IsEmpty() {
 			// Don't mutate empty objects?
 			continue
 		}
-
+		err := filtersutil.ApplyToJSON(namespace.Filter{
-		id := r.OrgId()
+			Namespace: p.Namespace,
-
+			FsSlice:   p.FieldSpecs,
-		if p.YAMLSupport {
+		}, r)
-			// use the new style transform
+		if err != nil {
-			err := filtersutil.ApplyToJSON(namespace.Filter{
+			return err
-				Namespace: p.Namespace,
-				FsSlice:   p.FieldSpecs,
-			}, r.Kunstructured)
-			if err != nil {
-				return err
-			}
-		} else {
-			// use the old style transform
-			applicableFs := p.applicableFieldSpecs(id)
-			for _, fs := range applicableFs {
-				err := transform.MutateField(
-					r.Map(), fs.PathSlice(), fs.CreateIfNotPresent,
-					p.changeNamespace(r))
-				if err != nil {
-					return err
-				}
-			}
 		}
-
 		matches := m.GetMatchingResourcesByCurrentId(r.CurId().Equals)
 		if len(matches) != 1 {
 			return fmt.Errorf(

api/builtins/PatchJson6902Transformer.go

@@ -23,8 +23,6 @@ type PatchJson6902TransformerPlugin struct {
 	Target       types.PatchTarget `json:"target,omitempty" yaml:"target,omitempty"`
 	Path         string            `json:"path,omitempty" yaml:"path,omitempty"`
 	JsonOp       string            `json:"jsonOp,omitempty" yaml:"jsonOp,omitempty"`
-
-	YAMLSupport bool `json:"yamlSupport,omitempty" yaml:"yamlSupport,omitempty"`
 }
 
 func (p *PatchJson6902TransformerPlugin) Config(
@@ -87,22 +85,9 @@ func (p *PatchJson6902TransformerPlugin) Transform(m resmap.ResMap) error {
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	if !p.YAMLSupport {
+	return filtersutil.ApplyToJSON(patchjson6902.Filter{
-		rawObj, err := obj.MarshalJSON()
+		Patch: p.JsonOp,
-		if err != nil {
+	}, obj)
-			return err
-		}
-		modifiedObj, err := p.decodedPatch.Apply(rawObj)
-		if err != nil {
-			return errors.Wrapf(
-				err, "failed to apply json patch '%s'", p.JsonOp)
-		}
-		return obj.UnmarshalJSON(modifiedObj)
-	} else {
-		return filtersutil.ApplyToJSON(patchjson6902.Filter{
-			Patch: p.JsonOp,
-		}, obj.Kunstructured)
-	}
 }
 
 func NewPatchJson6902TransformerPlugin() resmap.TransformerPlugin {

api/builtins/PatchStrategicMergeTransformer.go

@@ -4,11 +4,10 @@
 package builtins
 
 import (
-	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
+	"strings"
 
-	kyaml "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/yaml"
+	"github.com/pkg/errors"
-
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/patchstrategicmerge"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resmap"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resource"
@@ -22,8 +21,6 @@ type PatchStrategicMergeTransformerPlugin struct {
 	loadedPatches []*resource.Resource
 	Paths         []types.PatchStrategicMerge `json:"paths,omitempty" yaml:"paths,omitempty"`
 	Patches       string                      `json:"patches,omitempty" yaml:"patches,omitempty"`
-
-	YAMLSupport bool `json:"yamlSupport,omitempty" yaml:"yamlSupport,omitempty"`
 }
 
 func (p *PatchStrategicMergeTransformerPlugin) Config(
@@ -67,7 +64,7 @@ func (p *PatchStrategicMergeTransformerPlugin) Config(
 }
 
 func (p *PatchStrategicMergeTransformerPlugin) Transform(m resmap.ResMap) error {
-	patches, err := p.h.ResmapFactory().MergePatches(p.loadedPatches)
+	patches, err := p.h.ResmapFactory().Merge(p.loadedPatches)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
@@ -76,42 +73,48 @@ func (p *PatchStrategicMergeTransformerPlugin) Transform(m resmap.ResMap) error
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
-		if !p.YAMLSupport {
+		patchCopy := patch.DeepCopy()
-			err = target.Patch(patch.Kunstructured)
+		patchCopy.SetName(target.GetName())
+		patchCopy.SetNamespace(target.GetNamespace())
+		patchCopy.SetGvk(target.GetGvk())
+		node, err := filtersutil.GetRNode(patchCopy)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		err = filtersutil.ApplyToJSON(patchstrategicmerge.Filter{
+			Patch: node,
+		}, target)
+		if err != nil {
+			// Check for an error string from UnmarshalJSON that's indicative
+			// of an object that's missing basic KRM fields, and thus may have been
+			// entirely deleted (an acceptable outcome).  This error handling should
+			// be deleted along with use of ResMap and apimachinery functions like
+			// UnmarshalJSON.
+			if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "Object 'Kind' is missing") {
+				// Some unknown error, let it through.
+				return err
+			}
+			if !target.IsEmpty() {
+				return errors.Wrapf(
+					err, "with unexpectedly non-empty object map of size %d",
+					len(target.Map()))
+			}
+			// Fall through to handle deleted object.
+		}
+		if target.IsEmpty() {
+			// This means all fields have been removed from the object.
+			// This can happen if a patch required deletion of the
+			// entire resource (not just a part of it).  This means
+			// the overall resmap must shrink by one.
+			err = m.Remove(target.CurId())
 			if err != nil {
 				return err
 			}
-			// remove the resource from resmap
-			// when the patch is to $patch: delete that target
-			if len(target.Map()) == 0 {
-				err = m.Remove(target.CurId())
-				if err != nil {
-					return err
-				}
-			}
-		} else {
-			node, err := getRNode(patch)
-			if err != nil {
-				return err
-			}
-			err = filtersutil.ApplyToJSON(patchstrategicmerge.Filter{
-				Patch: node,
-			}, target.Kunstructured)
 		}
 	}
 	return nil
 }
 
-//TODO: Remove this once the next version of kyaml is released which
-// exposes GetRNode from the filutersutil package.
-func getRNode(k json.Marshaler) (*kyaml.RNode, error) {
-	j, err := k.MarshalJSON()
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	return kyaml.Parse(string(j))
-}
-
 func NewPatchStrategicMergeTransformerPlugin() resmap.TransformerPlugin {
 	return &PatchStrategicMergeTransformerPlugin{}
 }

api/builtins/PatchTransformer.go

@@ -24,8 +24,6 @@ type PatchTransformerPlugin struct {
 	Path         string          `json:"path,omitempty" yaml:"path,omitempty"`
 	Patch        string          `json:"patch,omitempty" yaml:"patch,omitempty"`
 	Target       *types.Selector `json:"target,omitempty" yaml:"target,omitempty"`
-
-	YAMLSupport bool `json:"yamlSupport,omitempty" yaml:"yamlSupport,omitempty"`
 }
 
 func (p *PatchTransformerPlugin) Config(
@@ -73,11 +71,11 @@ func (p *PatchTransformerPlugin) Config(
 }
 
 func (p *PatchTransformerPlugin) Transform(m resmap.ResMap) error {
-	if p.loadedPatch != nil {
+	if p.loadedPatch == nil {
+		return p.transformJson6902(m, p.decodedPatch)
+	} else {
 		// The patch was a strategic merge patch
 		return p.transformStrategicMerge(m, p.loadedPatch)
-	} else {
-		return p.transformJson6902(m, p.decodedPatch)
 	}
 }
 
@@ -104,27 +102,52 @@ func (p *PatchTransformerPlugin) transformStrategicMerge(m resmap.ResMap, patch
 		patchCopy.SetGvk(res.GetGvk())
 		err := p.applySMPatch(res, patchCopy)
 		if err != nil {
-			return err
+			// Check for an error string from UnmarshalJSON that's indicative
+			// of an object that's missing basic KRM fields, and thus may have been
+			// entirely deleted (an acceptable outcome).  This error handling should
+			// be deleted along with use of ResMap and apimachinery functions like
+			// UnmarshalJSON.
+			if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "Object 'Kind' is missing") {
+				// Some unknown error, let it through.
+				return err
+			}
+			if !res.IsEmpty() {
+				return errors.Wrapf(
+					err, "with unexpectedly non-empty object map of size %d",
+					len(res.Map()))
+			}
+			// Fall through to handle deleted object.
+		}
+		if res.IsEmpty() {
+			// This means all fields have been removed from the object.
+			// This can happen if a patch required deletion of the
+			// entire resource (not just a part of it).  This means
+			// the overall resmap must shrink by one.
+			err = m.Remove(res.CurId())
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
 		}
 	}
 	return nil
 }
 
 // applySMPatch applies the provided strategic merge patch to the
-// given resource. Depending on the value of YAMLSupport, it will either
+// given resource.
-// use the legacy implementation or the kyaml-based solution.
 func (p *PatchTransformerPlugin) applySMPatch(resource, patch *resource.Resource) error {
-	if !p.YAMLSupport {
+	node, err := filtersutil.GetRNode(patch)
-		return resource.Patch(patch.Kunstructured)
+	if err != nil {
-	} else {
+		return err
-		node, err := filtersutil.GetRNode(patch)
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-		return filtersutil.ApplyToJSON(patchstrategicmerge.Filter{
-			Patch: node,
-		}, resource.Kunstructured)
 	}
+	n, ns := resource.GetName(), resource.GetNamespace()
+	err = filtersutil.ApplyToJSON(patchstrategicmerge.Filter{
+		Patch: node,
+	}, resource)
+	if !resource.IsEmpty() {
+		resource.SetName(n)
+		resource.SetNamespace(ns)
+	}
+	return err
 }
 
 // transformJson6902 applies the provided json6902 patch
@@ -133,13 +156,14 @@ func (p *PatchTransformerPlugin) transformJson6902(m resmap.ResMap, patch jsonpa
 	if p.Target == nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("must specify a target for patch %s", p.Patch)
 	}
-
 	resources, err := m.Select(*p.Target)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	for _, res := range resources {
-		err = p.applyJson6902Patch(res, patch)
+		err = filtersutil.ApplyToJSON(patchjson6902.Filter{
+			Patch: p.Patch,
+		}, res)
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
@@ -147,28 +171,6 @@ func (p *PatchTransformerPlugin) transformJson6902(m resmap.ResMap, patch jsonpa
 	return nil
 }
 
-// applyJson6902Patch applies the provided patch to the given resource.
-// Depending on the value of YAMLSupport, it will either
-// use the legacy implementation or the kyaml-based solution.
-func (p *PatchTransformerPlugin) applyJson6902Patch(resource *resource.Resource, patch jsonpatch.Patch) error {
-	if !p.YAMLSupport {
-		rawObj, err := resource.MarshalJSON()
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-		modifiedObj, err := patch.Apply(rawObj)
-		if err != nil {
-			return errors.Wrapf(
-				err, "failed to apply json patch '%s'", p.Patch)
-		}
-		return resource.UnmarshalJSON(modifiedObj)
-	} else {
-		return filtersutil.ApplyToJSON(patchjson6902.Filter{
-			Patch: p.Patch,
-		}, resource.Kunstructured)
-	}
-}
-
 // jsonPatchFromBytes loads a Json 6902 patch from
 // a bytes input
 func jsonPatchFromBytes(

api/builtins/PrefixSuffixTransformer.go

@@ -5,31 +5,28 @@ package builtins
 
 import (
 	"errors"
-	"fmt"
-
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/transform"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
 
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/prefixsuffix"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resid"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resmap"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/filtersutil"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/yaml"
 )
 
 // Add the given prefix and suffix to the field.
 type PrefixSuffixTransformerPlugin struct {
-	Prefix     string            `json:"prefix,omitempty" yaml:"prefix,omitempty"`
+	Prefix     string        `json:"prefix,omitempty" yaml:"prefix,omitempty"`
-	Suffix     string            `json:"suffix,omitempty" yaml:"suffix,omitempty"`
+	Suffix     string        `json:"suffix,omitempty" yaml:"suffix,omitempty"`
-	FieldSpecs []types.FieldSpec `json:"fieldSpecs,omitempty" yaml:"fieldSpecs,omitempty"`
+	FieldSpecs types.FsSlice `json:"fieldSpecs,omitempty" yaml:"fieldSpecs,omitempty"`
 }
 
-// Not placed in a file yet due to lack of demand.
+// A Gvk skip list for prefix/suffix modification.
-var prefixSuffixFieldSpecsToSkip = []types.FieldSpec{
+// hard coded for now - eventually should be part of config.
-	{
+var prefixSuffixFieldSpecsToSkip = types.FsSlice{
-		Gvk: resid.Gvk{Kind: "CustomResourceDefinition"},
+	{Gvk: resid.Gvk{Kind: "CustomResourceDefinition"}},
-	},
+	{Gvk: resid.Gvk{Group: "apiregistration.k8s.io", Kind: "APIService"}},
-	{
+	{Gvk: resid.Gvk{Kind: "Namespace"}},
-		Gvk: resid.Gvk{Group: "apiregistration.k8s.io", Kind: "APIService"},
-	},
 }
 
 func (p *PrefixSuffixTransformerPlugin) Config(
@@ -48,29 +45,24 @@ func (p *PrefixSuffixTransformerPlugin) Config(
 }
 
 func (p *PrefixSuffixTransformerPlugin) Transform(m resmap.ResMap) error {
-
 	// Even if both the Prefix and Suffix are empty we want
 	// to proceed with the transformation. This allows to add contextual
 	// information to the resources (AddNamePrefix and AddNameSuffix).
-
 	for _, r := range m.Resources() {
+		// TODO: move this test into the filter (i.e. make a better filter)
 		if p.shouldSkip(r.OrgId()) {
-			// Don't change the actual definition
-			// of a CRD.
 			continue
 		}
 		id := r.OrgId()
 		// current default configuration contains
 		// only one entry: "metadata/name" with no GVK
-		for _, path := range p.FieldSpecs {
+		for _, fs := range p.FieldSpecs {
-			if !id.IsSelected(&path.Gvk) {
+			// TODO: this is redundant to filter (but needed for now)
-				// With the currrent default configuration,
+			if !id.IsSelected(&fs.Gvk) {
-				// because no Gvk is specified, so a wild
-				// card
 				continue
 			}
-
+			// TODO: move this test into the filter.
-			if smellsLikeANameChange(&path) {
+			if smellsLikeANameChange(&fs) {
 				// "metadata/name" is the only field.
 				// this will add a prefix and a suffix
 				// to the resource even if those are
@@ -78,15 +70,11 @@ func (p *PrefixSuffixTransformerPlugin) Transform(m resmap.ResMap) error {
 				r.AddNamePrefix(p.Prefix)
 				r.AddNameSuffix(p.Suffix)
 			}
-
+			err := filtersutil.ApplyToJSON(prefixsuffix.Filter{
-			// the addPrefixSuffix method will not
+				Prefix:    p.Prefix,
-			// change the name if both the prefix and suffix
+				Suffix:    p.Suffix,
-			// are empty.
+				FieldSpec: fs,
-			err := transform.MutateField(
+			}, r)
-				r.Map(),
-				path.PathSlice(),
-				path.CreateIfNotPresent,
-				p.addPrefixSuffix)
 			if err != nil {
 				return err
 			}
@@ -99,8 +87,7 @@ func smellsLikeANameChange(fs *types.FieldSpec) bool {
 	return fs.Path == "metadata/name"
 }
 
-func (p *PrefixSuffixTransformerPlugin) shouldSkip(
+func (p *PrefixSuffixTransformerPlugin) shouldSkip(id resid.ResId) bool {
-	id resid.ResId) bool {
 	for _, path := range prefixSuffixFieldSpecsToSkip {
 		if id.IsSelected(&path.Gvk) {
 			return true
@@ -109,15 +96,6 @@ func (p *PrefixSuffixTransformerPlugin) shouldSkip(
 	return false
 }
 
-func (p *PrefixSuffixTransformerPlugin) addPrefixSuffix(
-	in interface{}) (interface{}, error) {
-	s, ok := in.(string)
-	if !ok {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%#v is expected to be %T", in, s)
-	}
-	return fmt.Sprintf("%s%s%s", p.Prefix, s, p.Suffix), nil
-}
-
 func NewPrefixSuffixTransformerPlugin() resmap.TransformerPlugin {
 	return &PrefixSuffixTransformerPlugin{}
 }

api/builtins/ReplicaCountTransformer.go

@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ package builtins
 import (
 	"fmt"
 
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/transform"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/replicacount"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/filtersutil"
 
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resid"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resmap"
@@ -30,18 +31,24 @@ func (p *ReplicaCountTransformerPlugin) Config(
 
 func (p *ReplicaCountTransformerPlugin) Transform(m resmap.ResMap) error {
 	found := false
-	for i, replicaSpec := range p.FieldSpecs {
+	for _, fs := range p.FieldSpecs {
-		matcher := p.createMatcher(i)
+		matcher := p.createMatcher(fs)
 		matchOriginal := m.GetMatchingResourcesByOriginalId(matcher)
-		matchCurrent := m.GetMatchingResourcesByCurrentId(matcher)
+		resList := append(
-
+			matchOriginal, m.GetMatchingResourcesByCurrentId(matcher)...)
-		for _, res := range append(matchOriginal, matchCurrent...) {
+		if len(resList) > 0 {
 			found = true
-			err := transform.MutateField(
+			for _, r := range resList {
-				res.Map(), replicaSpec.PathSlice(),
+				// There are redundant checks in the filter
-				replicaSpec.CreateIfNotPresent, p.addReplicas)
+				// that we'll live with until resolution of
-			if err != nil {
+				// https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/issues/2506
-				return err
+				err := filtersutil.ApplyToJSON(replicacount.Filter{
+					Replica:   p.Replica,
+					FieldSpec: fs,
+				}, r)
+				if err != nil {
+					return err
+				}
 			}
 		}
 	}
@@ -59,30 +66,12 @@ func (p *ReplicaCountTransformerPlugin) Transform(m resmap.ResMap) error {
 }
 
 // Match Replica.Name and FieldSpec
-func (p *ReplicaCountTransformerPlugin) createMatcher(i int) resmap.IdMatcher {
+func (p *ReplicaCountTransformerPlugin) createMatcher(fs types.FieldSpec) resmap.IdMatcher {
 	return func(r resid.ResId) bool {
-		return r.Name == p.Replica.Name &&
+		return r.Name == p.Replica.Name && r.Gvk.IsSelected(&fs.Gvk)
-			r.Gvk.IsSelected(&p.FieldSpecs[i].Gvk)
 	}
 }
 
-func (p *ReplicaCountTransformerPlugin) addReplicas(in interface{}) (interface{}, error) {
-	switch m := in.(type) {
-	case int64:
-		// Was already in the field.
-	case map[string]interface{}:
-		if len(m) != 0 {
-			// A map was already in the replicas field, don't want to
-			// discard this data silently.
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%#v is expected to be %T", in, m)
-		}
-		// Just got added, default type is map, but we can return anything.
-	default:
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%#v is expected to be %T", in, m)
-	}
-	return p.Replica.Count, nil
-}
-
 func NewReplicaCountTransformerPlugin() resmap.TransformerPlugin {
 	return &ReplicaCountTransformerPlugin{}
 }

api/builtins/ValueAddTransformer.go

@@ -121,13 +121,13 @@ func (p *ValueAddTransformerPlugin) Transform(m resmap.ResMap) (err error) {
 			if t.FieldPath == types.MetadataNamespacePath {
 				err = filtersutil.ApplyToJSON(namespace.Filter{
 					Namespace: p.Value,
-				}, res.Kunstructured)
+				}, res)
 			} else {
 				err = filtersutil.ApplyToJSON(valueadd.Filter{
 					Value:            p.Value,
 					FieldPath:        t.FieldPath,
 					FilePathPosition: t.FilePathPosition,
-				}, res.Kunstructured)
+				}, res)
 			}
 			if err != nil {
 				return err

api/filters/annotations/annotations.go

@@ -29,10 +29,11 @@ func (f Filter) Filter(nodes []*yaml.RNode) ([]*yaml.RNode, error) {
 		func(node *yaml.RNode) (*yaml.RNode, error) {
 			for _, k := range keys {
 				if err := node.PipeE(fsslice.Filter{
-					FsSlice:    f.FsSlice,
+					FsSlice: f.FsSlice,
-					SetValue:   fsslice.SetEntry(k, f.Annotations[k], yaml.StringTag),
+					SetValue: filtersutil.SetEntry(
+						k, f.Annotations[k], yaml.NodeTagString),
 					CreateKind: yaml.MappingNode, // Annotations are MappingNodes.
-					CreateTag:  "!!map",
+					CreateTag:  yaml.NodeTagMap,
 				}); err != nil {
 					return nil, err
 				}

api/filters/fieldspec/doc.go

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+// Copyright 2020 The Kubernetes Authors.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+// Package fieldspec contains a yaml.Filter to modify a resource
+// that matches the FieldSpec.
+package fieldspec

api/filters/fieldspec/example_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+// Copyright 2020 The Kubernetes Authors.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+package fieldspec_test
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"log"
+	"os"
+
+	. "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/fieldspec"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/filtersutil"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/kio"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/yaml"
+)
+
+func ExampleFilter() {
+	in := &kio.ByteReader{
+		Reader: bytes.NewBufferString(`
+apiVersion: example.com/v1
+kind: Foo
+metadata:
+  name: instance
+---
+apiVersion: example.com/v1
+kind: Bar
+metadata:
+  name: instance
+`),
+	}
+	fltr := Filter{
+		CreateKind: yaml.ScalarNode,
+		SetValue:   filtersutil.SetScalar("green"),
+		FieldSpec:  types.FieldSpec{Path: "a/b", CreateIfNotPresent: true},
+	}
+
+	err := kio.Pipeline{
+		Inputs:  []kio.Reader{in},
+		Filters: []kio.Filter{kio.FilterAll(fltr)},
+		Outputs: []kio.Writer{kio.ByteWriter{Writer: os.Stdout}},
+	}.Execute()
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	// Output:
+	// apiVersion: example.com/v1
+	// kind: Foo
+	// metadata:
+	//   name: instance
+	// a:
+	//   b: green
+	// ---
+	// apiVersion: example.com/v1
+	// kind: Bar
+	// metadata:
+	//   name: instance
+	// a:
+	//   b: green
+}

api/filters/fieldspec/fieldspec.go

@@ -1,24 +1,27 @@
 // Copyright 2019 The Kubernetes Authors.
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
-package fsslice
+package fieldspec
 
 import (
 	"strings"
 
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/filtersutil"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/errors"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/yaml"
 )
 
-// fieldSpecFilter applies a single fieldSpec to a single object
+var _ yaml.Filter = Filter{}
-// fieldSpecFilter stores internal state and should not be reused
+
-type fieldSpecFilter struct {
+// Filter applies a single fieldSpec to a single object
+// Filter stores internal state and should not be reused
+type Filter struct {
 	// FieldSpec contains the path to the value to set.
 	FieldSpec types.FieldSpec `yaml:"fieldSpec"`
 
 	// Set the field using this function
-	SetValue SetFn
+	SetValue filtersutil.SetFn
 
 	// CreateKind defines the type of node to create if the field is not found
 	CreateKind yaml.Kind
@@ -29,48 +32,54 @@ type fieldSpecFilter struct {
 	path []string
 }
 
-func (fltr fieldSpecFilter) Filter(obj *yaml.RNode) (*yaml.RNode, error) {
+func (fltr Filter) Filter(obj *yaml.RNode) (*yaml.RNode, error) {
 	// check if the FieldSpec applies to the object
 	if match, err := isMatchGVK(fltr.FieldSpec, obj); !match || err != nil {
 		return obj, errors.Wrap(err)
 	}
-	fltr.path = strings.Split(fltr.FieldSpec.Path, "/")
+	fltr.path = splitPath(fltr.FieldSpec.Path)
 	if err := fltr.filter(obj); err != nil {
 		s, _ := obj.String()
 		return nil, errors.WrapPrefixf(err,
-			"obj %v at path %v", s, fltr.FieldSpec.Path)
+			"obj '%s' at path '%v'", s, fltr.FieldSpec.Path)
 	}
 	return obj, nil
 }
 
-func (fltr fieldSpecFilter) filter(obj *yaml.RNode) error {
+func (fltr Filter) filter(obj *yaml.RNode) error {
 	if len(fltr.path) == 0 {
 		// found the field -- set its value
 		return fltr.SetValue(obj)
 	}
+	if obj.IsTaggedNull() {
+		return nil
+	}
 	switch obj.YNode().Kind {
 	case yaml.SequenceNode:
 		return fltr.seq(obj)
 	case yaml.MappingNode:
 		return fltr.field(obj)
+	default:
+		return errors.Errorf("expected sequence or mapping node")
 	}
-	// not found -- this might be an error since the type doesn't match
-
-	return errors.Errorf("unsupported yaml node")
 }
 
 // field calls filter on the field matching the next path element
-func (fltr fieldSpecFilter) field(obj *yaml.RNode) error {
+func (fltr Filter) field(obj *yaml.RNode) error {
 	fieldName, isSeq := isSequenceField(fltr.path[0])
-
 	// lookup the field matching the next path element
 	var lookupField yaml.Filter
 	var kind yaml.Kind
-	var tag string
+	tag := yaml.NodeTagEmpty
 	switch {
 	case !fltr.FieldSpec.CreateIfNotPresent || fltr.CreateKind == 0 || isSeq:
 		// dont' create the field if we don't find it
 		lookupField = yaml.Lookup(fieldName)
+		if isSeq {
+			// The query path thinks this field should be a sequence;
+			// accept this hint for use later if the tag is NodeTagNull.
+			kind = yaml.SequenceNode
+		}
 	case len(fltr.path) <= 1:
 		// create the field if it is missing: use the provided node kind
 		lookupField = yaml.LookupCreate(fltr.CreateKind, fieldName)
@@ -80,7 +89,7 @@ func (fltr fieldSpecFilter) field(obj *yaml.RNode) error {
 		// create the field if it is missing: must be a mapping node
 		lookupField = yaml.LookupCreate(yaml.MappingNode, fieldName)
 		kind = yaml.MappingNode
-		tag = "!!map"
+		tag = yaml.NodeTagMap
 	}
 
 	// locate (or maybe create) the field
@@ -89,9 +98,10 @@ func (fltr fieldSpecFilter) field(obj *yaml.RNode) error {
 		return errors.WrapPrefixf(err, "fieldName: %s", fieldName)
 	}
 
-	// if the value exists, but is null, then change it to the creation type
+	// if the value exists, but is null and kind is set,
+	// then change it to the creation type
 	// TODO: update yaml.LookupCreate to support this
-	if field.YNode().Tag == "!!null" {
+	if field.YNode().Tag == yaml.NodeTagNull && yaml.IsCreate(kind) {
 		field.YNode().Kind = kind
 		field.YNode().Tag = tag
 	}
@@ -104,9 +114,9 @@ func (fltr fieldSpecFilter) field(obj *yaml.RNode) error {
 }
 
 // seq calls filter on all sequence elements
-func (fltr fieldSpecFilter) seq(obj *yaml.RNode) error {
+func (fltr Filter) seq(obj *yaml.RNode) error {
 	if err := obj.VisitElements(func(node *yaml.RNode) error {
-		// recurse on each element -- re-allocating a fieldSpecFilter is
+		// recurse on each element -- re-allocating a Filter is
 		// not strictly required, but is more consistent with field
 		// and less likely to have side effects
 		// keep the entire path -- it does not contain parts for sequences
@@ -153,3 +163,18 @@ func isMatchGVK(fs types.FieldSpec, obj *yaml.RNode) (bool, error) {
 
 	return true, nil
 }
+
+func splitPath(path string) []string {
+	ps := strings.Split(path, "/")
+	var res []string
+	res = append(res, ps[0])
+	for i := 1; i < len(ps); i++ {
+		lastIndex := len(res) - 1
+		if strings.HasSuffix(res[lastIndex], "\\") {
+			res[lastIndex] = strings.TrimSuffix(res[lastIndex], "\\") + "/" + ps[i]
+		} else {
+			res = append(res, ps[i])
+		}
+	}
+	return res
+}

api/filters/fieldspec/fieldspec_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,535 @@
+// Copyright 2019 The Kubernetes Authors.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+package fieldspec_test
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/fieldspec"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/filtersutil"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/kio"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/yaml"
+)
+
+type TestCase struct {
+	name      string
+	input     string
+	expected  string
+	filter    fieldspec.Filter
+	fieldSpec string
+	error     string
+}
+
+var tests = []TestCase{
+	{
+		name: "update",
+		fieldSpec: `
+path: a/b
+group: foo
+kind: Bar
+`,
+		input: `
+apiVersion: foo/v1beta1
+kind: Bar
+a:
+  b: c
+`,
+		expected: `
+apiVersion: foo/v1beta1
+kind: Bar
+a:
+  b: e
+`,
+		filter: fieldspec.Filter{
+			SetValue: filtersutil.SetScalar("e"),
+		},
+	},
+
+	{
+		name: "update-kind-not-match",
+		fieldSpec: `
+path: a/b
+group: foo
+kind: Bar1
+`,
+		input: `
+apiVersion: foo/v1beta1
+kind: Bar2
+a:
+  b: c
+`,
+		expected: `
+apiVersion: foo/v1beta1
+kind: Bar2
+a:
+  b: c
+`,
+		filter: fieldspec.Filter{
+			SetValue: filtersutil.SetScalar("e"),
+		},
+	},
+
+	{
+		name: "update-group-not-match",
+		fieldSpec: `
+path: a/b
+group: foo1
+kind: Bar
+`,
+		input: `
+apiVersion: foo2/v1beta1
+kind: Bar
+a:
+  b: c
+`,
+		expected: `
+apiVersion: foo2/v1beta1
+kind: Bar
+a:
+  b: c
+`,
+		filter: fieldspec.Filter{
+			SetValue: filtersutil.SetScalar("e"),
+		},
+	},
+
+	{
+		name: "update-version-not-match",
+		fieldSpec: `
+path: a/b
+group: foo
+version: v1beta1
+kind: Bar
+`,
+		input: `
+apiVersion: foo/v1beta2
+kind: Bar
+a:
+  b: c
+`,
+		expected: `
+apiVersion: foo/v1beta2
+kind: Bar
+a:
+  b: c
+`,
+		filter: fieldspec.Filter{
+			SetValue: filtersutil.SetScalar("e"),
+		},
+	},
+
+	{
+		name: "bad-version",
+		fieldSpec: `
+path: a/b
+group: foo
+version: v1beta1
+kind: Bar
+`,
+		input: `
+apiVersion: foo/v1beta2/something
+kind: Bar
+a:
+  b: c
+`,
+		expected: `
+apiVersion: foo/v1beta2/something
+kind: Bar
+a:
+  b: c
+`,
+		filter: fieldspec.Filter{
+			SetValue: filtersutil.SetScalar("e"),
+		},
+	},
+
+	{
+		name: "bad-meta",
+		fieldSpec: `
+path: a/b
+group: foo
+version: v1beta1
+kind: Bar
+`,
+		input: `
+a:
+  b: c
+`,
+		filter: fieldspec.Filter{
+			SetValue: filtersutil.SetScalar("e"),
+		},
+		error: "missing Resource metadata",
+	},
+
+	{
+		name: "miss-match-type",
+		fieldSpec: `
+path: a/b/c
+kind: Bar
+`,
+		input: `
+kind: Bar
+a:
+  b: a
+`,
+		error: "obj 'kind: Bar\na:\n  b: a\n' at path 'a/b/c': " +
+			"expected sequence or mapping node",
+		filter: fieldspec.Filter{
+			SetValue: filtersutil.SetScalar("e"),
+		},
+	},
+
+	{
+		name: "add",
+		fieldSpec: `
+path: a/b/c/d
+group: foo
+create: true
+kind: Bar
+`,
+		input: `
+apiVersion: foo/v1beta1
+kind: Bar
+a: {}
+`,
+		expected: `
+apiVersion: foo/v1beta1
+kind: Bar
+a: {b: {c: {d: e}}}
+`,
+		filter: fieldspec.Filter{
+			SetValue:   filtersutil.SetScalar("e"),
+			CreateKind: yaml.ScalarNode,
+		},
+	},
+
+	{
+		name: "update-in-sequence",
+		fieldSpec: `
+path: a/b[]/c/d
+group: foo
+kind: Bar
+`,
+		input: `
+apiVersion: foo/v1beta1
+kind: Bar
+a:
+  b:
+  - c:
+      d: a
+`,
+		expected: `
+apiVersion: foo/v1beta1
+kind: Bar
+a:
+  b:
+  - c:
+      d: e
+`,
+		filter: fieldspec.Filter{
+			SetValue: filtersutil.SetScalar("e"),
+		},
+	},
+
+	// Don't create a sequence
+	{
+		name: "empty-sequence-no-create",
+		fieldSpec: `
+path: a/b[]/c/d
+group: foo
+create: true
+kind: Bar
+`,
+		input: `
+apiVersion: foo/v1beta1
+kind: Bar
+a: {}
+`,
+		expected: `
+apiVersion: foo/v1beta1
+kind: Bar
+a: {}
+`,
+		filter: fieldspec.Filter{
+			SetValue:   filtersutil.SetScalar("e"),
+			CreateKind: yaml.ScalarNode,
+		},
+	},
+
+	// Create a new field for an element in a sequence
+	{
+		name: "empty-sequence-create",
+		fieldSpec: `
+path: a/b[]/c/d
+group: foo
+create: true
+kind: Bar
+`,
+		input: `
+apiVersion: foo/v1beta1
+kind: Bar
+a:
+  b:
+  - c: {}
+`,
+		expected: `
+apiVersion: foo/v1beta1
+kind: Bar
+a:
+  b:
+  - c: {d: e}
+`,
+		filter: fieldspec.Filter{
+			SetValue:   filtersutil.SetScalar("e"),
+			CreateKind: yaml.ScalarNode,
+		},
+	},
+
+	{
+		name: "group v1",
+		fieldSpec: `
+path: a/b
+group: v1
+create: true
+kind: Bar
+`,
+		input: `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Bar
+`,
+		expected: `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Bar
+`,
+		filter: fieldspec.Filter{
+			SetValue:   filtersutil.SetScalar("e"),
+			CreateKind: yaml.ScalarNode,
+		},
+	},
+
+	{
+		name: "version v1",
+		fieldSpec: `
+path: a/b
+version: v1
+create: true
+kind: Bar
+`,
+		input: `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Bar
+`,
+		expected: `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Bar
+a:
+  b: e
+`,
+		filter: fieldspec.Filter{
+			SetValue:   filtersutil.SetScalar("e"),
+			CreateKind: yaml.ScalarNode,
+		},
+	},
+	{
+		name: "successfully set field on array entry no sequence hint",
+		fieldSpec: `
+path: spec/containers/image
+version: v1
+kind: Bar
+`,
+		input: `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Bar
+spec:
+  containers:
+  - image: foo
+`,
+		expected: `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Bar
+spec:
+  containers:
+  - image: bar
+`,
+		filter: fieldspec.Filter{
+			SetValue:   filtersutil.SetScalar("bar"),
+			CreateKind: yaml.ScalarNode,
+		},
+	},
+	{
+		name: "successfully set field on array entry with sequence hint",
+		fieldSpec: `
+path: spec/containers[]/image
+version: v1
+kind: Bar
+`,
+		input: `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Bar
+spec:
+  containers:
+  - image: foo
+`,
+		expected: `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Bar
+spec:
+  containers:
+  - image: bar
+`,
+		filter: fieldspec.Filter{
+			SetValue:   filtersutil.SetScalar("bar"),
+			CreateKind: yaml.ScalarNode,
+		},
+	},
+	{
+		name: "failure to set field on array entry with sequence hint in path",
+		fieldSpec: `
+path: spec/containers[]/image
+version: v1
+kind: Bar
+`,
+		input: `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Bar
+spec:
+  containers:
+`,
+		expected: `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Bar
+spec:
+  containers: []
+`,
+		filter: fieldspec.Filter{
+			SetValue:   filtersutil.SetScalar("bar"),
+			CreateKind: yaml.ScalarNode,
+		},
+	},
+	{
+		name: "failure to set field on array entry, no sequence hint in path",
+		fieldSpec: `
+path: spec/containers/image
+version: v1
+kind: Bar
+`,
+		input: `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Bar
+spec:
+  containers:
+`,
+		expected: `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Bar
+spec:
+  containers:
+`,
+		filter: fieldspec.Filter{
+			SetValue:   filtersutil.SetScalar("bar"),
+			CreateKind: yaml.ScalarNode,
+		},
+	},
+	{
+		name: "filedname with slash '/'",
+		fieldSpec: `
+path: a/b\/c/d
+version: v1
+kind: Bar
+`,
+		input: `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Bar
+a:
+  b/c:
+    d: foo
+`,
+		expected: `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Bar
+a:
+  b/c:
+    d: bar
+`,
+		filter: fieldspec.Filter{
+			SetValue:   filtersutil.SetScalar("bar"),
+			CreateKind: yaml.ScalarNode,
+		},
+	},
+	{
+		name: "filedname with multiple '/'",
+		fieldSpec: `
+path: a/b\/c/d\/e/f
+version: v1
+kind: Bar
+`,
+		input: `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Bar
+a:
+  b/c:
+    d/e:
+      f: foo
+`,
+		expected: `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Bar
+a:
+  b/c:
+    d/e:
+      f: bar
+`,
+		filter: fieldspec.Filter{
+			SetValue:   filtersutil.SetScalar("bar"),
+			CreateKind: yaml.ScalarNode,
+		},
+	},
+}
+
+func TestFilter_Filter(t *testing.T) {
+	for i := range tests {
+		test := tests[i]
+		t.Run(test.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			err := yaml.Unmarshal([]byte(test.fieldSpec), &test.filter.FieldSpec)
+			if !assert.NoError(t, err) {
+				t.FailNow()
+			}
+
+			out := &bytes.Buffer{}
+			rw := &kio.ByteReadWriter{
+				Reader:                bytes.NewBufferString(test.input),
+				Writer:                out,
+				OmitReaderAnnotations: true,
+			}
+
+			// run the filter
+			err = kio.Pipeline{
+				Inputs:  []kio.Reader{rw},
+				Filters: []kio.Filter{kio.FilterAll(test.filter)},
+				Outputs: []kio.Writer{rw},
+			}.Execute()
+			if test.error != "" {
+				if !assert.EqualError(t, err, test.error) {
+					t.FailNow()
+				}
+				// stop rest of test
+				return
+			}
+
+			if !assert.NoError(t, err) {
+				t.FailNow()
+			}
+
+			// check results
+			if !assert.Equal(t,
+				strings.TrimSpace(test.expected),
+				strings.TrimSpace(out.String())) {
+				t.FailNow()
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}

api/filters/fieldspec/gvk.go

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // Copyright 2019 The Kubernetes Authors.
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-package fsslice
+package fieldspec
 
 import (
 	"strings"

api/filters/fieldspec/gvk_test.go

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // Copyright 2019 The Kubernetes Authors.
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-package fsslice
+package fieldspec
 
 import (
 	"strings"

api/filters/filtersutil/setters.go

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+package filtersutil
+
+import (
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/yaml"
+)
+
+// SetFn is a function that accepts an RNode to possibly modify.
+type SetFn func(*yaml.RNode) error
+
+// SetScalar returns a SetFn to set a scalar value
+func SetScalar(value string) SetFn {
+	return func(node *yaml.RNode) error {
+		return node.PipeE(yaml.FieldSetter{StringValue: value})
+	}
+}
+
+// SetEntry returns a SetFn to set an entry in a map
+func SetEntry(key, value, tag string) SetFn {
+	n := &yaml.Node{
+		Kind:  yaml.ScalarNode,
+		Value: value,
+		Tag:   tag,
+	}
+	if tag == yaml.NodeTagString && yaml.IsYaml1_1NonString(n) {
+		n.Style = yaml.DoubleQuotedStyle
+	}
+	return func(node *yaml.RNode) error {
+		return node.PipeE(yaml.FieldSetter{
+			Name:  key,
+			Value: yaml.NewRNode(n),
+		})
+	}
+}

api/filters/fsslice/doc.go

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // Copyright 2020 The Kubernetes Authors.
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
-// Package fsslice contains a yaml.Filter to modify a resource using an
+// Package fsslice contains a yaml.Filter to modify a resource if
-// FsSlice to identify fields to be updated within the resource.
+// it matches one or more FieldSpec entries.
 package fsslice

api/filters/fsslice/example_test.go

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
 	"log"
 	"os"
 
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/filtersutil"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/fsslice"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/kio"
@@ -30,7 +31,7 @@ metadata:
 	}
 	fltr := fsslice.Filter{
 		CreateKind: yaml.ScalarNode,
-		SetValue:   fsslice.SetScalar("green"),
+		SetValue:   filtersutil.SetScalar("green"),
 		FsSlice: []types.FieldSpec{
 			{Path: "a/b", CreateIfNotPresent: true},
 		},

api/filters/fsslice/fsslice.go

@@ -4,48 +4,22 @@
 package fsslice
 
 import (
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/fieldspec"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/filtersutil"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/yaml"
 )
 
-// SetFn sets a value
-type SetFn func(*yaml.RNode) error
-
-// SetScalar returns a SetFn to set a scalar value
-func SetScalar(value string) SetFn {
-	return func(node *yaml.RNode) error {
-		return node.PipeE(yaml.FieldSetter{StringValue: value})
-	}
-}
-
-// SetEntry returns a SetFn to set an entry in a map
-func SetEntry(key, value, tag string) SetFn {
-	n := &yaml.Node{
-		Kind:  yaml.ScalarNode,
-		Value: value,
-		Tag:   tag,
-	}
-	if tag == yaml.StringTag && yaml.IsYaml1_1NonString(n) {
-		n.Style = yaml.DoubleQuotedStyle
-	}
-	return func(node *yaml.RNode) error {
-		return node.PipeE(yaml.FieldSetter{
-			Name:  key,
-			Value: yaml.NewRNode(n),
-		})
-	}
-
-}
-
 var _ yaml.Filter = Filter{}
 
-// Filter uses an FsSlice to modify fields on a single object
+// Filter ranges over an FsSlice to modify fields on a single object.
+// An FsSlice is a range of FieldSpecs. A FieldSpec is a GVK plus a path.
 type Filter struct {
 	// FieldSpecList list of FieldSpecs to set
 	FsSlice types.FsSlice `yaml:"fsSlice"`
 
 	// SetValue is called on each field that matches one of the FieldSpecs
-	SetValue SetFn
+	SetValue filtersutil.SetFn
 
 	// CreateKind is used to create fields that do not exist
 	CreateKind yaml.Kind
@@ -59,7 +33,7 @@ func (fltr Filter) Filter(obj *yaml.RNode) (*yaml.RNode, error) {
 		// apply this FieldSpec
 		// create a new filter for each iteration because they
 		// store internal state about the field paths
-		_, err := (&fieldSpecFilter{
+		_, err := (&fieldspec.Filter{
 			FieldSpec:  fltr.FsSlice[i],
 			SetValue:   fltr.SetValue,
 			CreateKind: fltr.CreateKind,

api/filters/fsslice/fsslice_test.go

@@ -9,335 +9,77 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/fsslice"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/filtersutil"
+	. "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/fsslice"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/kio"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/yaml"
 )
 
 type TestCase struct {
-	name     string
 	input    string
 	expected string
-	filter   fsslice.Filter
+	filter   Filter
 	fsSlice  string
 	error    string
 }
 
-var tests = []TestCase{
+var tests = map[string]TestCase{
-	{
+	"empty": {
-		name: "update",
 		fsSlice: `
-- path: a/b
-  group: foo
-  kind: Bar
 `,
 		input: `
-apiVersion: foo/v1beta1
+apiVersion: foo/v1
 kind: Bar
-a:
-  b: c
 `,
 		expected: `
-apiVersion: foo/v1beta1
+apiVersion: foo/v1
 kind: Bar
-a:
-  b: e
 `,
-		filter: fsslice.Filter{
+		filter: Filter{
-			SetValue: fsslice.SetScalar("e"),
+			SetValue:   filtersutil.SetScalar("e"),
-		},
-	},
-
-	{
-		name: "update-kind-not-match",
-		fsSlice: `
-- path: a/b
-  group: foo
-  kind: Bar1
-`,
-		input: `
-apiVersion: foo/v1beta1
-kind: Bar2
-a:
-  b: c
-`,
-		expected: `
-apiVersion: foo/v1beta1
-kind: Bar2
-a:
-  b: c
-`,
-		filter: fsslice.Filter{
-			SetValue: fsslice.SetScalar("e"),
-		},
-	},
-
-	{
-		name: "update-group-not-match",
-		fsSlice: `
-- path: a/b
-  group: foo1
-  kind: Bar
-`,
-		input: `
-apiVersion: foo2/v1beta1
-kind: Bar
-a:
-  b: c
-`,
-		expected: `
-apiVersion: foo2/v1beta1
-kind: Bar
-a:
-  b: c
-`,
-		filter: fsslice.Filter{
-			SetValue: fsslice.SetScalar("e"),
-		},
-	},
-
-	{
-		name: "update-version-not-match",
-		fsSlice: `
-- path: a/b
-  group: foo
-  version: v1beta1
-  kind: Bar
-`,
-		input: `
-apiVersion: foo/v1beta2
-kind: Bar
-a:
-  b: c
-`,
-		expected: `
-apiVersion: foo/v1beta2
-kind: Bar
-a:
-  b: c
-`,
-		filter: fsslice.Filter{
-			SetValue: fsslice.SetScalar("e"),
-		},
-	},
-
-	{
-		name: "bad-version",
-		fsSlice: `
-- path: a/b
-  group: foo
-  version: v1beta1
-  kind: Bar
-`,
-		input: `
-apiVersion: foo/v1beta2/something
-kind: Bar
-a:
-  b: c
-`,
-		expected: `
-apiVersion: foo/v1beta2/something
-kind: Bar
-a:
-  b: c
-`,
-		filter: fsslice.Filter{
-			SetValue: fsslice.SetScalar("e"),
-		},
-	},
-
-	{
-		name: "bad-meta",
-		fsSlice: `
-- path: a/b
-  group: foo
-  version: v1beta1
-  kind: Bar
-`,
-		input: `
-a:
-  b: c
-`,
-		filter: fsslice.Filter{
-			SetValue: fsslice.SetScalar("e"),
-		},
-		error: "missing Resource metadata",
-	},
-
-	{
-		name: "miss-match-type",
-		fsSlice: `
-- path: a/b/c
-  kind: Bar
-`,
-		input: `
-kind: Bar
-a:
-  b: a
-`,
-		error: "obj kind: Bar\na:\n  b: a\n at path a/b/c: unsupported yaml node",
-		filter: fsslice.Filter{
-			SetValue: fsslice.SetScalar("e"),
-		},
-	},
-
-	{
-		name: "add",
-		fsSlice: `
-- path: a/b/c/d
-  group: foo
-  create: true
-  kind: Bar
-`,
-		input: `
-apiVersion: foo/v1beta1
-kind: Bar
-a: {}
-`,
-		expected: `
-apiVersion: foo/v1beta1
-kind: Bar
-a: {b: {c: {d: e}}}
-`,
-		filter: fsslice.Filter{
-			SetValue:   fsslice.SetScalar("e"),
 			CreateKind: yaml.ScalarNode,
 		},
 	},
-
+	"two": {
-	{
-		name: "update-in-sequence",
-		fsSlice: `
-- path: a/b[]/c/d
-  group: foo
-  kind: Bar
-`,
-		input: `
-apiVersion: foo/v1beta1
-kind: Bar
-a:
-  b:
-  - c:
-      d: a
-`,
-		expected: `
-apiVersion: foo/v1beta1
-kind: Bar
-a:
-  b:
-  - c:
-      d: e
-`,
-		filter: fsslice.Filter{
-			SetValue: fsslice.SetScalar("e"),
-		},
-	},
-
-	// Don't create a sequence
-	{
-		name: "empty-sequence-no-create",
-		fsSlice: `
-- path: a/b[]/c/d
-  group: foo
-  create: true
-  kind: Bar
-`,
-		input: `
-apiVersion: foo/v1beta1
-kind: Bar
-a: {}
-`,
-		expected: `
-apiVersion: foo/v1beta1
-kind: Bar
-a: {}
-`,
-		filter: fsslice.Filter{
-			SetValue:   fsslice.SetScalar("e"),
-			CreateKind: yaml.ScalarNode,
-		},
-	},
-
-	// Create a new field for an element in a sequence
-	{
-		name: "empty-sequence-create",
-		fsSlice: `
-- path: a/b[]/c/d
-  group: foo
-  create: true
-  kind: Bar
-`,
-		input: `
-apiVersion: foo/v1beta1
-kind: Bar
-a:
-  b:
-  - c: {}
-`,
-		expected: `
-apiVersion: foo/v1beta1
-kind: Bar
-a:
-  b:
-  - c: {d: e}
-`,
-		filter: fsslice.Filter{
-			SetValue:   fsslice.SetScalar("e"),
-			CreateKind: yaml.ScalarNode,
-		},
-	},
-
-	{
-		name: "group v1",
 		fsSlice: `
 - path: a/b
-  group: v1
+  group: foo
+  version: v1
   create: true
   kind: Bar
-`,
+- path: q/r[]/s/t
-		input: `
+  group: foo
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Bar
-`,
-		expected: `
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Bar
-`,
-		filter: fsslice.Filter{
-			SetValue:   fsslice.SetScalar("e"),
-			CreateKind: yaml.ScalarNode,
-		},
-	},
-
-	{
-		name: "version v1",
-		fsSlice: `
-- path: a/b
   version: v1
   create: true
   kind: Bar
 `,
 		input: `
-apiVersion: v1
+apiVersion: foo/v1
 kind: Bar
+q:
+  r:
+  - s: {}
 `,
 		expected: `
-apiVersion: v1
+apiVersion: foo/v1
 kind: Bar
+q:
+  r:
+  - s: {t: e}
 a:
   b: e
 `,
-		filter: fsslice.Filter{
+		filter: Filter{
-			SetValue:   fsslice.SetScalar("e"),
+			SetValue:   filtersutil.SetScalar("e"),
 			CreateKind: yaml.ScalarNode,
 		},
 	},
 }
 
-func TestFilter_Filter(t *testing.T) {
+func TestFilter(t *testing.T) {
-	for i := range tests {
+	for name := range tests {
-		test := tests[i]
+		test := tests[name]
-		t.Run(test.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
 			err := yaml.Unmarshal([]byte(test.fsSlice), &test.filter.FsSlice)
 			if !assert.NoError(t, err) {
 				t.FailNow()

api/filters/imagetag/imagetag.go

@@ -4,17 +4,24 @@
 package imagetag
 
 import (
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/filtersutil"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/fsslice"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/kio"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/yaml"
 )
 
+// Filter modifies an "image tag", the value used to specify the
+// name, tag, version digest etc. of (docker) container images
+// used by a pod template.
 type Filter struct {
 	// imageTag is the tag we want to apply to the inputs
+	// The name of the image is used as a key, and other fields
+	// can specify a new name, tag, etc.
 	ImageTag types.Image `json:"imageTag,omitempty" yaml:"imageTag,omitempty"`
 
-	// FsSlice contains the FieldSpecs to locate the namespace field
+	// FsSlice contains the FieldSpecs to locate an image field,
+	// e.g. Path: "spec/myContainers[]/image"
 	FsSlice types.FsSlice `json:"fieldSpecs,omitempty" yaml:"fieldSpecs,omitempty"`
 }
 
@@ -26,6 +33,12 @@ func (f Filter) Filter(nodes []*yaml.RNode) ([]*yaml.RNode, error) {
 }
 
 func (f Filter) filter(node *yaml.RNode) (*yaml.RNode, error) {
+	// FsSlice is an allowlist, not a denyList, so to deny
+	// something via configuration a new config mechanism is
+	// needed. Until then, hardcode it.
+	if f.isOnDenyList(node) {
+		return node, nil
+	}
 	if err := node.PipeE(fsslice.Filter{
 		FsSlice:  f.FsSlice,
 		SetValue: updateImageTagFn(f.ImageTag),
@@ -35,7 +48,19 @@ func (f Filter) filter(node *yaml.RNode) (*yaml.RNode, error) {
 	return node, nil
 }
 
-func updateImageTagFn(imageTag types.Image) fsslice.SetFn {
+func (f Filter) isOnDenyList(node *yaml.RNode) bool {
+	meta, err := node.GetMeta()
+	if err != nil {
+		// A missing 'meta' field will cause problems elsewhere;
+		// ignore it here to keep the signature simple.
+		return false
+	}
+	// Ignore CRDs
+	// https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/issues/890
+	return meta.Kind == `CustomResourceDefinition`
+}
+
+func updateImageTagFn(imageTag types.Image) filtersutil.SetFn {
 	return func(node *yaml.RNode) error {
 		return node.PipeE(imageTagUpdater{
 			ImageTag: imageTag,

api/filters/imagetag/imagetag_test.go

@@ -19,6 +19,162 @@ func TestImageTagUpdater_Filter(t *testing.T) {
 		filter         Filter
 		fsSlice        types.FsSlice
 	}{
+		"ignore CustomResourceDefinition": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apiextensions.k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: CustomResourceDefinition
+metadata:
+  name: whatever
+spec:
+  containers:
+  - image: whatever
+`,
+			expectedOutput: `
+apiVersion: apiextensions.k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: CustomResourceDefinition
+metadata:
+  name: whatever
+spec:
+  containers:
+  - image: whatever
+`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				ImageTag: types.Image{
+					Name:    "whatever",
+					NewName: "theImageShouldNotChangeInACrd",
+				},
+			},
+			fsSlice: []types.FieldSpec{
+				{
+					Path: "spec/containers/image",
+				},
+			},
+		},
+
+		"legacy multiple images in containers": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: example.com/v1
+kind: Foo
+metadata:
+  name: instance
+spec:
+  containers:
+  - image: nginx:1.2.1
+  - image: nginx:2.1.2
+`,
+			expectedOutput: `
+apiVersion: example.com/v1
+kind: Foo
+metadata:
+  name: instance
+spec:
+  containers:
+  - image: apache@12345
+  - image: apache@12345
+`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				ImageTag: types.Image{
+					Name:    "nginx",
+					NewName: "apache",
+					Digest:  "12345",
+				},
+			},
+			fsSlice: []types.FieldSpec{
+				{
+					Path: "spec/containers/image",
+				},
+			},
+		},
+		"legacy both containers and initContainers": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: example.com/v1
+kind: Foo
+metadata:
+  name: instance
+spec:
+  containers:
+  - image: nginx:1.2.1
+  - image: tomcat:1.2.3
+  initContainers:
+  - image: nginx:1.2.1
+  - image: apache:1.2.3
+`,
+			expectedOutput: `
+apiVersion: example.com/v1
+kind: Foo
+metadata:
+  name: instance
+spec:
+  containers:
+  - image: apache:3.2.1
+  - image: tomcat:1.2.3
+  initContainers:
+  - image: apache:3.2.1
+  - image: apache:1.2.3
+`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				ImageTag: types.Image{
+					Name:    "nginx",
+					NewName: "apache",
+					NewTag:  "3.2.1",
+				},
+			},
+			fsSlice: []types.FieldSpec{
+				{
+					Path: "spec/containers/image",
+				},
+				{
+					Path: "spec/initContainers/image",
+				},
+			},
+		},
+		"legacy updates at multiple depths": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: example.com/v1
+kind: Foo
+metadata:
+  name: instance
+spec:
+  containers:
+  - image: nginx:1.2.1
+  - image: tomcat:1.2.3
+  template:
+    spec:
+      initContainers:
+      - image: nginx:1.2.1
+      - image: apache:1.2.3
+`,
+			expectedOutput: `
+apiVersion: example.com/v1
+kind: Foo
+metadata:
+  name: instance
+spec:
+  containers:
+  - image: apache:3.2.1
+  - image: tomcat:1.2.3
+  template:
+    spec:
+      initContainers:
+      - image: apache:3.2.1
+      - image: apache:1.2.3
+`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				ImageTag: types.Image{
+					Name:    "nginx",
+					NewName: "apache",
+					NewTag:  "3.2.1",
+				},
+			},
+			fsSlice: []types.FieldSpec{
+				{
+					Path: "spec/containers/image",
+				},
+				{
+					Path: "spec/template/spec/initContainers/image",
+				},
+			},
+		},
 		"update with digest": {
 			input: `
 apiVersion: example.com/v1
@@ -49,6 +205,7 @@ spec:
 				},
 			},
 		},
+
 		"multiple matches in sequence": {
 			input: `
 apiVersion: example.com/v1
@@ -85,6 +242,422 @@ spec:
 				},
 			},
 		},
+
+		"new Tag": {
+			input: `
+group: apps
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: deploy1
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - image: nginx:1.7.9
+        name: nginx-tagged
+      - image: nginx:latest
+        name: nginx-latest
+      - image: foobar:1
+        name: replaced-with-digest
+      - image: postgres:1.8.0
+        name: postgresdb
+      initContainers:
+      - image: nginx
+        name: nginx-notag
+      - image: nginx@sha256:111111111111111111
+        name: nginx-sha256
+      - image: alpine:1.8.0
+        name: init-alpine`,
+			expectedOutput: `
+group: apps
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: deploy1
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - image: nginx:v2
+        name: nginx-tagged
+      - image: nginx:v2
+        name: nginx-latest
+      - image: foobar:1
+        name: replaced-with-digest
+      - image: postgres:1.8.0
+        name: postgresdb
+      initContainers:
+      - image: nginx:v2
+        name: nginx-notag
+      - image: nginx:v2
+        name: nginx-sha256
+      - image: alpine:1.8.0
+        name: init-alpine
+`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				ImageTag: types.Image{
+					Name:   "nginx",
+					NewTag: "v2",
+				},
+			},
+			fsSlice: []types.FieldSpec{
+				{
+					Path: "spec/template/spec/containers[]/image",
+				},
+				{
+					Path: "spec/template/spec/initContainers[]/image",
+				},
+			},
+		},
+		"newImage": {
+			input: `
+group: apps
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: deploy1
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - image: nginx:1.7.9
+        name: nginx-tagged
+      - image: nginx:latest
+        name: nginx-latest
+      - image: foobar:1
+        name: replaced-with-digest
+      - image: postgres:1.8.0
+        name: postgresdb
+      initContainers:
+      - image: nginx
+        name: nginx-notag
+      - image: nginx@sha256:111111111111111111
+        name: nginx-sha256
+      - image: alpine:1.8.0
+        name: init-alpine
+`,
+			expectedOutput: `
+group: apps
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: deploy1
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - image: busybox:1.7.9
+        name: nginx-tagged
+      - image: busybox:latest
+        name: nginx-latest
+      - image: foobar:1
+        name: replaced-with-digest
+      - image: postgres:1.8.0
+        name: postgresdb
+      initContainers:
+      - image: busybox
+        name: nginx-notag
+      - image: busybox@sha256:111111111111111111
+        name: nginx-sha256
+      - image: alpine:1.8.0
+        name: init-alpine
+`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				ImageTag: types.Image{
+					Name:    "nginx",
+					NewName: "busybox",
+				},
+			},
+			fsSlice: []types.FieldSpec{
+				{
+					Path: "spec/template/spec/containers[]/image",
+				},
+				{
+					Path: "spec/template/spec/initContainers[]/image",
+				},
+			},
+		},
+		"newImageAndTag": {
+			input: `
+group: apps
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: deploy1
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - image: nginx:1.7.9
+        name: nginx-tagged
+      - image: nginx:latest
+        name: nginx-latest
+      - image: foobar:1
+        name: replaced-with-digest
+      - image: postgres:1.8.0
+        name: postgresdb
+      initContainers:
+      - image: nginx
+        name: nginx-notag
+      - image: nginx@sha256:111111111111111111
+        name: nginx-sha256
+      - image: alpine:1.8.0
+        name: init-alpine
+`,
+			expectedOutput: `
+group: apps
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: deploy1
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - image: busybox:v3
+        name: nginx-tagged
+      - image: busybox:v3
+        name: nginx-latest
+      - image: foobar:1
+        name: replaced-with-digest
+      - image: postgres:1.8.0
+        name: postgresdb
+      initContainers:
+      - image: busybox:v3
+        name: nginx-notag
+      - image: busybox:v3
+        name: nginx-sha256
+      - image: alpine:1.8.0
+        name: init-alpine
+`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				ImageTag: types.Image{
+					Name:    "nginx",
+					NewName: "busybox",
+					NewTag:  "v3",
+				},
+			},
+			fsSlice: []types.FieldSpec{
+				{
+					Path: "spec/template/spec/containers[]/image",
+				},
+				{
+					Path: "spec/template/spec/initContainers[]/image",
+				},
+			},
+		},
+		"newDigest": {
+			input: `
+group: apps
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: deploy1
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - image: nginx:1.7.9
+        name: nginx-tagged
+      - image: nginx:latest
+        name: nginx-latest
+      - image: foobar:1
+        name: replaced-with-digest
+      - image: postgres:1.8.0
+        name: postgresdb
+      initContainers:
+      - image: nginx
+        name: nginx-notag
+      - image: nginx@sha256:111111111111111111
+        name: nginx-sha256
+      - image: alpine:1.8.0
+        name: init-alpine
+`,
+			expectedOutput: `
+group: apps
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: deploy1
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - image: nginx@sha256:222222222222222222
+        name: nginx-tagged
+      - image: nginx@sha256:222222222222222222
+        name: nginx-latest
+      - image: foobar:1
+        name: replaced-with-digest
+      - image: postgres:1.8.0
+        name: postgresdb
+      initContainers:
+      - image: nginx@sha256:222222222222222222
+        name: nginx-notag
+      - image: nginx@sha256:222222222222222222
+        name: nginx-sha256
+      - image: alpine:1.8.0
+        name: init-alpine
+`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				ImageTag: types.Image{
+					Name:   "nginx",
+					Digest: "sha256:222222222222222222",
+				},
+			},
+			fsSlice: []types.FieldSpec{
+				{
+					Path: "spec/template/spec/containers/image",
+				},
+				{
+					Path: "spec/template/spec/initContainers/image",
+				},
+			},
+		},
+		"newImageAndDigest": {
+			input: `
+group: apps
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: deploy1
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - image: nginx:1.7.9
+        name: nginx-tagged
+      - image: nginx:latest
+        name: nginx-latest
+      - image: foobar:1
+        name: replaced-with-digest
+      - image: postgres:1.8.0
+        name: postgresdb
+      initContainers:
+      - image: nginx
+        name: nginx-notag
+      - image: nginx@sha256:111111111111111111
+        name: nginx-sha256
+      - image: alpine:1.8.0
+        name: init-alpine
+`,
+			expectedOutput: `
+group: apps
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: deploy1
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - image: busybox@sha256:222222222222222222
+        name: nginx-tagged
+      - image: busybox@sha256:222222222222222222
+        name: nginx-latest
+      - image: foobar:1
+        name: replaced-with-digest
+      - image: postgres:1.8.0
+        name: postgresdb
+      initContainers:
+      - image: busybox@sha256:222222222222222222
+        name: nginx-notag
+      - image: busybox@sha256:222222222222222222
+        name: nginx-sha256
+      - image: alpine:1.8.0
+        name: init-alpine
+`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				ImageTag: types.Image{
+					Name:    "nginx",
+					NewName: "busybox",
+					Digest:  "sha256:222222222222222222",
+				},
+			},
+			fsSlice: []types.FieldSpec{
+				{
+					Path: "spec/template/spec/containers[]/image",
+				},
+				{
+					Path: "spec/template/spec/initContainers[]/image",
+				},
+			},
+		},
+		"emptyContainers": {
+			input: `
+group: apps
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: deploy1
+spec:
+  containers:
+`,
+			expectedOutput: `
+group: apps
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: deploy1
+spec:
+  containers: []
+`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				ImageTag: types.Image{
+					Name:   "nginx",
+					NewTag: "v2",
+				},
+			},
+			fsSlice: []types.FieldSpec{
+				{
+					Path: "spec/containers[]/image",
+					//					CreateIfNotPresent: true,
+				},
+			},
+		},
+		"tagWithBraces": {
+			input: `
+group: apps
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: deploy1
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - image: some.registry.io/my-image:{GENERATED_TAG}
+        name: my-image
+`,
+			expectedOutput: `
+group: apps
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: deploy1
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - image: some.registry.io/my-image:my-fixed-tag
+        name: my-image
+`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				ImageTag: types.Image{
+					Name:   "some.registry.io/my-image",
+					NewTag: "my-fixed-tag",
+				},
+			},
+			fsSlice: []types.FieldSpec{
+				{
+					Path: "spec/template/spec/containers[]/image",
+				},
+				{
+					Path: "spec/template/spec/initContainers[]/image",
+				},
+			},
+		},
 	}
 
 	for tn, tc := range testCases {

api/filters/labels/labels.go

@@ -30,10 +30,11 @@ func (f Filter) Filter(nodes []*yaml.RNode) ([]*yaml.RNode, error) {
 		func(node *yaml.RNode) (*yaml.RNode, error) {
 			for _, k := range keys {
 				if err := node.PipeE(fsslice.Filter{
-					FsSlice:    f.FsSlice,
+					FsSlice: f.FsSlice,
-					SetValue:   fsslice.SetEntry(k, f.Labels[k], yaml.StringTag),
+					SetValue: filtersutil.SetEntry(
+						k, f.Labels[k], yaml.NodeTagString),
 					CreateKind: yaml.MappingNode, // Labels are MappingNodes.
-					CreateTag:  "!!map",
+					CreateTag:  yaml.NodeTagMap,
 				}); err != nil {
 					return nil, err
 				}

api/filters/nameref/doc.go

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+// Package nameref contains a kio.Filter implementation of the kustomize
+// name reference transformer.
+package nameref

api/filters/nameref/nameref.go

@@ -0,0 +1,241 @@
+package nameref
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/fieldspec"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/filtersutil"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resid"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resmap"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resource"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/kio"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/yaml"
+)
+
+// Filter will update the name reference
+type Filter struct {
+	FieldSpec          types.FieldSpec `json:"fieldSpec,omitempty" yaml:"fieldSpec,omitempty"`
+	Referrer           *resource.Resource
+	Target             resid.Gvk
+	ReferralCandidates resmap.ResMap
+}
+
+func (f Filter) Filter(nodes []*yaml.RNode) ([]*yaml.RNode, error) {
+	return kio.FilterAll(yaml.FilterFunc(f.run)).Filter(nodes)
+}
+
+func (f Filter) run(node *yaml.RNode) (*yaml.RNode, error) {
+	err := node.PipeE(fieldspec.Filter{
+		FieldSpec: f.FieldSpec,
+		SetValue:  f.set,
+	})
+	return node, err
+}
+
+func (f Filter) set(node *yaml.RNode) error {
+	if yaml.IsMissingOrNull(node) {
+		return nil
+	}
+	switch node.YNode().Kind {
+	case yaml.ScalarNode:
+		return f.setScalar(node)
+	case yaml.MappingNode:
+		// Kind: ValidatingWebhookConfiguration
+		// FieldSpec is webhooks/clientConfig/service
+		return f.setMapping(node)
+	case yaml.SequenceNode:
+		return f.setSequence(node)
+	default:
+		return fmt.Errorf(
+			"node is expected to be either a string or a slice of string or a map of string")
+	}
+}
+
+func (f Filter) setSequence(node *yaml.RNode) error {
+	return applyFilterToSeq(seqFilter{
+		setScalarFn:  f.setScalar,
+		setMappingFn: f.setMapping,
+	}, node)
+}
+
+func (f Filter) setMapping(node *yaml.RNode) error {
+	return setNameAndNs(
+		node,
+		f.Referrer,
+		f.Target,
+		f.ReferralCandidates,
+	)
+}
+
+func (f Filter) setScalar(node *yaml.RNode) error {
+	newValue, err := getSimpleNameField(
+		node.YNode().Value,
+		f.Referrer,
+		f.Target,
+		f.ReferralCandidates,
+		f.ReferralCandidates.Resources(),
+	)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	err = filtersutil.SetScalar(newValue)(node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func filterReferralCandidates(
+	referrer *resource.Resource,
+	matches []*resource.Resource,
+	target resid.Gvk,
+) []*resource.Resource {
+	var ret []*resource.Resource
+	for _, m := range matches {
+		// If target kind is not ServiceAccount, we shouldn't consider condidates which
+		// doesn't have same namespace.
+		if target.Kind != "ServiceAccount" && m.GetNamespace() != referrer.GetNamespace() {
+			continue
+		}
+		if !referrer.PrefixesSuffixesEquals(m) {
+			continue
+		}
+		ret = append(ret, m)
+	}
+	return ret
+}
+
+// selectReferral picks the referral among a subset of candidates.
+// It returns the current name and namespace of the selected candidate.
+// Note that the content of the referricalCandidateSubset slice is most of the time
+// identical to the referralCandidates resmap. Still in some cases, such
+// as ClusterRoleBinding, the subset only contains the resources of a specific
+// namespace.
+func selectReferral(
+	oldName string,
+	referrer *resource.Resource,
+	target resid.Gvk,
+	referralCandidates resmap.ResMap,
+	referralCandidateSubset []*resource.Resource) (string, string, error) {
+
+	for _, res := range referralCandidateSubset {
+		id := res.OrgId()
+		if id.IsSelected(&target) && res.GetOriginalName() == oldName {
+			matches := referralCandidates.GetMatchingResourcesByOriginalId(id.Equals)
+			// If there's more than one match,
+			// filter the matches by prefix and suffix
+			if len(matches) > 1 {
+				filteredMatches := filterReferralCandidates(referrer, matches, target)
+				if len(filteredMatches) > 1 {
+					return "", "", fmt.Errorf(
+						"multiple matches for %s:\n  %v",
+						id, getIds(filteredMatches))
+				}
+				// Check is the match the resource we are working on
+				if len(filteredMatches) == 0 || res != filteredMatches[0] {
+					continue
+				}
+			}
+			// In the resource, note that it is referenced
+			// by the referrer.
+			res.AppendRefBy(referrer.CurId())
+			// Return transformed name of the object,
+			// complete with prefixes, hashes, etc.
+			return res.GetName(), res.GetNamespace(), nil
+		}
+	}
+
+	return oldName, "", nil
+}
+
+// utility function to replace a simple string by the new name
+func getSimpleNameField(
+	oldName string,
+	referrer *resource.Resource,
+	target resid.Gvk,
+	referralCandidates resmap.ResMap,
+	referralCandidateSubset []*resource.Resource) (string, error) {
+
+	newName, _, err := selectReferral(oldName, referrer, target,
+		referralCandidates, referralCandidateSubset)
+
+	return newName, err
+}
+
+func getIds(rs []*resource.Resource) []string {
+	var result []string
+	for _, r := range rs {
+		result = append(result, r.CurId().String()+"\n")
+	}
+	return result
+}
+
+// utility function to replace name field within a map RNode
+// and leverage the namespace field.
+func setNameAndNs(
+	in *yaml.RNode,
+	referrer *resource.Resource,
+	target resid.Gvk,
+	referralCandidates resmap.ResMap) error {
+
+	if in.YNode().Kind != yaml.MappingNode {
+		return fmt.Errorf("expect a mapping node")
+	}
+
+	// Get name field
+	nameNode, err := in.Pipe(yaml.FieldMatcher{
+		Name: "name",
+	})
+	if err != nil || nameNode == nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("cannot find field 'name' in node")
+	}
+
+	// Get namespace field
+	namespaceNode, err := in.Pipe(yaml.FieldMatcher{
+		Name: "namespace",
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("error when find field 'namespace'")
+	}
+
+	// check is namespace matched
+	// name will bot be updated if the namespace doesn't match
+	subset := referralCandidates.Resources()
+	if namespaceNode != nil {
+		namespace := namespaceNode.YNode().Value
+		bynamespace := referralCandidates.GroupedByOriginalNamespace()
+		if _, ok := bynamespace[namespace]; !ok {
+			return nil
+		}
+		subset = bynamespace[namespace]
+	}
+
+	oldName := nameNode.YNode().Value
+	newname, newnamespace, err := selectReferral(oldName, referrer, target,
+		referralCandidates, subset)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	if (newname == oldName) && (newnamespace == "") {
+		// no candidate found.
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	// set name
+	in.Pipe(yaml.FieldSetter{
+		Name:        "name",
+		StringValue: newname,
+	})
+	if newnamespace != "" {
+		// We don't want value "" to replace value "default" since
+		// the empty string is handled as a wild card here not default namespace
+		// by kubernetes.
+		in.Pipe(yaml.FieldSetter{
+			Name:        "namespace",
+			StringValue: newnamespace,
+		})
+	}
+	return nil
+}

api/filters/nameref/nameref_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,781 @@
+package nameref
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/k8sdeps/kunstruct"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resid"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resmap"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resource"
+	filtertest_test "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/testutils/filtertest"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
+)
+
+func TestNamerefFilter(t *testing.T) {
+	testCases := map[string]struct {
+		input         string
+		candidates    string
+		expected      string
+		filter        Filter
+		originalNames []string
+	}{
+		"simple scalar": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+ref:
+  name: oldName
+`,
+			candidates: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: newName
+---
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: NotSecret
+metadata:
+  name: newName2
+`,
+			originalNames: []string{"oldName", ""},
+			expected: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+ref:
+  name: newName
+`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{Path: "ref/name"},
+				Target: resid.Gvk{
+					Group:   "apps",
+					Version: "v1",
+					Kind:    "Secret",
+				},
+			},
+		},
+		"sequence": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+seq:
+- oldName1
+- oldName2
+`,
+			candidates: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: newName
+---
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: NotSecret
+metadata:
+  name: newName2
+`,
+			originalNames: []string{"oldName1", ""},
+			expected: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+seq:
+- newName
+- oldName2
+`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{Path: "seq"},
+				Target: resid.Gvk{
+					Group:   "apps",
+					Version: "v1",
+					Kind:    "Secret",
+				},
+			},
+		},
+		"mapping": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+map:
+  name: oldName
+`,
+			candidates: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: newName
+---
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: NotSecret
+metadata:
+  name: newName2
+`,
+			originalNames: []string{"oldName", ""},
+			expected: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+map:
+  name: newName
+`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{Path: "map"},
+				Target: resid.Gvk{
+					Group:   "apps",
+					Version: "v1",
+					Kind:    "Secret",
+				},
+			},
+		},
+		"mapping with namespace": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+map:
+  name: oldName
+  namespace: oldNs
+`,
+			candidates: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: newName
+  namespace: oldNs
+---
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: NotSecret
+metadata:
+  name: newName2
+`,
+			originalNames: []string{"oldName", ""},
+			expected: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+map:
+  name: newName
+  namespace: oldNs
+`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{Path: "map"},
+				Target: resid.Gvk{
+					Group:   "apps",
+					Version: "v1",
+					Kind:    "Secret",
+				},
+			},
+		},
+		"null value": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+map:
+  name: null
+`,
+			candidates: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: newName
+---
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: NotSecret
+metadata:
+  name: newName2
+`,
+			originalNames: []string{"oldName", ""},
+			expected: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+map:
+  name: null
+`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{Path: "map"},
+				Target: resid.Gvk{
+					Group:   "apps",
+					Version: "v1",
+					Kind:    "Secret",
+				},
+			},
+		},
+	}
+
+	for tn, tc := range testCases {
+		t.Run(tn, func(t *testing.T) {
+			factory := resource.NewFactory(kunstruct.NewKunstructuredFactoryImpl())
+			referrer, err := factory.FromBytes([]byte(tc.input))
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			tc.filter.Referrer = referrer
+
+			resMapFactory := resmap.NewFactory(factory, nil)
+			candidatesRes, err := factory.SliceFromBytesWithNames(
+				tc.originalNames, []byte(tc.candidates))
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+
+			candidates := resMapFactory.FromResourceSlice(candidatesRes)
+			tc.filter.ReferralCandidates = candidates
+
+			if !assert.Equal(t,
+				strings.TrimSpace(tc.expected),
+				strings.TrimSpace(
+					filtertest_test.RunFilter(t, tc.input, tc.filter))) {
+				t.FailNow()
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestNamerefFilterUnhappy(t *testing.T) {
+	testCases := map[string]struct {
+		input         string
+		candidates    string
+		expected      string
+		filter        Filter
+		originalNames []string
+	}{
+		"multiple match": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+ref:
+  name: oldName
+`,
+			candidates: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: newName
+---
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: newName2
+`,
+			originalNames: []string{"oldName", "oldName"},
+			expected:      "",
+			filter: Filter{
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{Path: "ref/name"},
+				Target: resid.Gvk{
+					Group:   "apps",
+					Version: "v1",
+					Kind:    "Secret",
+				},
+			},
+		},
+		"no name": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+ref:
+  notName: oldName
+`,
+			candidates: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: newName
+---
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: newName2
+`,
+			originalNames: []string{"oldName", "oldName"},
+			expected:      "",
+			filter: Filter{
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{Path: "ref"},
+				Target: resid.Gvk{
+					Group:   "apps",
+					Version: "v1",
+					Kind:    "Secret",
+				},
+			},
+		},
+	}
+
+	for tn, tc := range testCases {
+		t.Run(tn, func(t *testing.T) {
+			factory := resource.NewFactory(kunstruct.NewKunstructuredFactoryImpl())
+			referrer, err := factory.FromBytes([]byte(tc.input))
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			tc.filter.Referrer = referrer
+
+			resMapFactory := resmap.NewFactory(factory, nil)
+			candidatesRes, err := factory.SliceFromBytesWithNames(
+				tc.originalNames, []byte(tc.candidates))
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+
+			candidates := resMapFactory.FromResourceSlice(candidatesRes)
+			tc.filter.ReferralCandidates = candidates
+
+			_, err = filtertest_test.RunFilterE(t, tc.input, tc.filter)
+			if err == nil {
+				t.Fatalf("expect an error")
+			}
+			if tc.expected != "" && !assert.EqualError(t, err, tc.expected) {
+				t.FailNow()
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestCandidatesWithDifferentPrefixSuffix(t *testing.T) {
+	testCases := map[string]struct {
+		input         string
+		candidates    string
+		expected      string
+		filter        Filter
+		originalNames []string
+		prefix        []string
+		suffix        []string
+		inputPrefix   string
+		inputSuffix   string
+		err           bool
+	}{
+		"prefix match": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+ref:
+  name: oldName
+`,
+			candidates: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: newName
+---
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: newName2
+`,
+			originalNames: []string{"oldName", "oldName"},
+			prefix:        []string{"prefix1", "prefix2"},
+			suffix:        []string{"", "suffix2"},
+			inputPrefix:   "prefix1",
+			inputSuffix:   "",
+			expected: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+ref:
+  name: newName
+`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{Path: "ref/name"},
+				Target: resid.Gvk{
+					Group:   "apps",
+					Version: "v1",
+					Kind:    "Secret",
+				},
+			},
+			err: false,
+		},
+		"suffix match": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+ref:
+  name: oldName
+`,
+			candidates: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: newName
+---
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: newName2
+`,
+			originalNames: []string{"oldName", "oldName"},
+			prefix:        []string{"", "prefix2"},
+			suffix:        []string{"suffix1", "suffix2"},
+			inputPrefix:   "",
+			inputSuffix:   "suffix1",
+			expected: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+ref:
+  name: newName
+`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{Path: "ref/name"},
+				Target: resid.Gvk{
+					Group:   "apps",
+					Version: "v1",
+					Kind:    "Secret",
+				},
+			},
+			err: false,
+		},
+		"prefix suffix both match": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+ref:
+  name: oldName
+`,
+			candidates: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: newName
+---
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: newName2
+`,
+			originalNames: []string{"oldName", "oldName"},
+			prefix:        []string{"prefix1", "prefix2"},
+			suffix:        []string{"suffix1", "suffix2"},
+			inputPrefix:   "prefix1",
+			inputSuffix:   "suffix1",
+			expected: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+ref:
+  name: newName
+`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{Path: "ref/name"},
+				Target: resid.Gvk{
+					Group:   "apps",
+					Version: "v1",
+					Kind:    "Secret",
+				},
+			},
+			err: false,
+		},
+		"multiple match: both": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+ref:
+  name: oldName
+`,
+			candidates: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: newName
+---
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: newName2
+`,
+			originalNames: []string{"oldName", "oldName"},
+			prefix:        []string{"prefix", "prefix"},
+			suffix:        []string{"suffix", "suffix"},
+			inputPrefix:   "prefix",
+			inputSuffix:   "suffix",
+			expected:      "",
+			filter: Filter{
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{Path: "ref/name"},
+				Target: resid.Gvk{
+					Group:   "apps",
+					Version: "v1",
+					Kind:    "Secret",
+				},
+			},
+			err: true,
+		},
+		"multiple match: only prefix": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+ref:
+  name: oldName
+`,
+			candidates: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: newName
+---
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: newName2
+`,
+			originalNames: []string{"oldName", "oldName"},
+			prefix:        []string{"prefix", "prefix"},
+			suffix:        []string{"", ""},
+			inputPrefix:   "prefix",
+			inputSuffix:   "",
+			expected:      "",
+			filter: Filter{
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{Path: "ref/name"},
+				Target: resid.Gvk{
+					Group:   "apps",
+					Version: "v1",
+					Kind:    "Secret",
+				},
+			},
+			err: true,
+		},
+		"multiple match: only suffix": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+ref:
+  name: oldName
+`,
+			candidates: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: newName
+---
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: newName2
+`,
+			originalNames: []string{"oldName", "oldName"},
+			prefix:        []string{"", ""},
+			suffix:        []string{"suffix", "suffix"},
+			inputPrefix:   "",
+			inputSuffix:   "suffix",
+			expected:      "",
+			filter: Filter{
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{Path: "ref/name"},
+				Target: resid.Gvk{
+					Group:   "apps",
+					Version: "v1",
+					Kind:    "Secret",
+				},
+			},
+			err: true,
+		},
+		"no match: neither match": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+ref:
+  name: oldName
+`,
+			candidates: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: newName
+---
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: newName2
+`,
+			originalNames: []string{"oldName", "oldName"},
+			prefix:        []string{"prefix1", "prefix2"},
+			suffix:        []string{"suffix1", "suffix2"},
+			inputPrefix:   "prefix",
+			inputSuffix:   "suffix",
+			expected: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+ref:
+  name: oldName
+`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{Path: "ref/name"},
+				Target: resid.Gvk{
+					Group:   "apps",
+					Version: "v1",
+					Kind:    "Secret",
+				},
+			},
+			err: false,
+		},
+		"no match: prefix doesn't match": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+ref:
+  name: oldName
+`,
+			candidates: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: newName
+---
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: newName2
+`,
+			originalNames: []string{"oldName", "oldName"},
+			prefix:        []string{"prefix1", "prefix2"},
+			suffix:        []string{"suffix", "suffix"},
+			inputPrefix:   "prefix",
+			inputSuffix:   "suffix",
+			expected: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+ref:
+  name: oldName
+`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{Path: "ref/name"},
+				Target: resid.Gvk{
+					Group:   "apps",
+					Version: "v1",
+					Kind:    "Secret",
+				},
+			},
+			err: false,
+		},
+		"no match: suffix doesn't match": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+ref:
+  name: oldName
+`,
+			candidates: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: newName
+---
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: newName2
+`,
+			originalNames: []string{"oldName", "oldName"},
+			prefix:        []string{"prefix", "prefix"},
+			suffix:        []string{"suffix1", "suffix2"},
+			inputPrefix:   "prefix",
+			inputSuffix:   "suffix",
+			expected: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+ref:
+  name: oldName
+`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{Path: "ref/name"},
+				Target: resid.Gvk{
+					Group:   "apps",
+					Version: "v1",
+					Kind:    "Secret",
+				},
+			},
+			err: false,
+		},
+	}
+
+	for tn, tc := range testCases {
+		t.Run(tn, func(t *testing.T) {
+			factory := resource.NewFactory(kunstruct.NewKunstructuredFactoryImpl())
+			referrer, err := factory.FromBytes([]byte(tc.input))
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			if tc.inputPrefix != "" {
+				referrer.AddNamePrefix(tc.inputPrefix)
+			}
+			if tc.inputSuffix != "" {
+				referrer.AddNameSuffix(tc.inputSuffix)
+			}
+			tc.filter.Referrer = referrer
+
+			resMapFactory := resmap.NewFactory(factory, nil)
+			candidatesRes, err := factory.SliceFromBytesWithNames(
+				tc.originalNames, []byte(tc.candidates))
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			for i := range candidatesRes {
+				if tc.prefix[i] != "" {
+					candidatesRes[i].AddNamePrefix(tc.prefix[i])
+				}
+				if tc.suffix[i] != "" {
+					candidatesRes[i].AddNameSuffix(tc.suffix[i])
+				}
+			}
+
+			candidates := resMapFactory.FromResourceSlice(candidatesRes)
+			tc.filter.ReferralCandidates = candidates
+
+			if !tc.err {
+				if !assert.Equal(t,
+					strings.TrimSpace(tc.expected),
+					strings.TrimSpace(
+						filtertest_test.RunFilter(t, tc.input, tc.filter))) {
+					t.FailNow()
+				}
+			} else {
+				_, err := filtertest_test.RunFilterE(t, tc.input, tc.filter)
+				if err == nil {
+					t.Fatalf("an error is expected")
+				}
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}

api/filters/nameref/seqfilter.go

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+package nameref
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/yaml"
+)
+
+type setFn func(*yaml.RNode) error
+
+type seqFilter struct {
+	setScalarFn  setFn
+	setMappingFn setFn
+}
+
+func (sf seqFilter) Filter(node *yaml.RNode) (*yaml.RNode, error) {
+	if yaml.IsMissingOrNull(node) {
+		return node, nil
+	}
+	switch node.YNode().Kind {
+	case yaml.ScalarNode:
+		// Kind: Role/ClusterRole
+		// FieldSpec is rules.resourceNames
+		err := sf.setScalarFn(node)
+		return node, err
+	case yaml.MappingNode:
+		// Kind: RoleBinding/ClusterRoleBinding
+		// FieldSpec is subjects
+		// Note: The corresponding fieldSpec had been changed from
+		// from path: subjects/name to just path: subjects. This is
+		// what get mutatefield to request the mapping of the whole
+		// map containing namespace and name instead of just a simple
+		// string field containing the name
+		err := sf.setMappingFn(node)
+		return node, err
+	default:
+		return node, fmt.Errorf(
+			"%#v is expected to be either a string or a map of string", node)
+	}
+}
+
+// applyFilterToSeq will apply the filter to each element in the sequence node
+func applyFilterToSeq(filter yaml.Filter, node *yaml.RNode) error {
+	if node.YNode().Kind != yaml.SequenceNode {
+		return fmt.Errorf("expect a sequence node but got %v", node.YNode().Kind)
+	}
+
+	for _, elem := range node.Content() {
+		rnode := yaml.NewRNode(elem)
+		err := rnode.PipeE(filter)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}

api/filters/nameref/seqfilter_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+package nameref
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/yaml"
+)
+
+func SeqFilter(node *yaml.RNode) (*yaml.RNode, error) {
+	if node.YNode().Value == "aaa" {
+		node.YNode().SetString("ccc")
+	}
+	return node, nil
+}
+
+func TestApplyFilterToSeq(t *testing.T) {
+	fltr := yaml.FilterFunc(SeqFilter)
+
+	testCases := map[string]struct {
+		input  string
+		expect string
+	}{
+		"replace in seq": {
+			input: `
+- aaa
+- bbb`,
+			expect: `
+- ccc
+- bbb`,
+		},
+	}
+
+	for tn, tc := range testCases {
+		t.Run(tn, func(t *testing.T) {
+			node, err := yaml.Parse(tc.input)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			err = applyFilterToSeq(fltr, node)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			if !assert.Equal(t,
+				strings.TrimSpace(tc.expect),
+				strings.TrimSpace(node.MustString())) {
+				t.Fatalf("expect:\n%s\nactual:\n%s",
+					strings.TrimSpace(tc.expect),
+					strings.TrimSpace(node.MustString()))
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestApplyFilterToSeqUnhappy(t *testing.T) {
+	fltr := yaml.FilterFunc(SeqFilter)
+
+	testCases := map[string]struct {
+		input string
+	}{
+		"replace in seq": {
+			input: `
+aaa`,
+		},
+	}
+
+	for tn, tc := range testCases {
+		t.Run(tn, func(t *testing.T) {
+			node, err := yaml.Parse(tc.input)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			err = applyFilterToSeq(fltr, node)
+			if err == nil {
+				t.Fatalf("expect an error")
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}

api/filters/namespace/namespace.go

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 package namespace
 
 import (
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/fieldspec"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/filtersutil"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/fsslice"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/kio"
@@ -42,9 +44,9 @@ func (ns Filter) run(node *yaml.RNode) (*yaml.RNode, error) {
 	// transformations based on data -- :)
 	err := node.PipeE(fsslice.Filter{
 		FsSlice:    ns.FsSlice,
-		SetValue:   fsslice.SetScalar(ns.Namespace),
+		SetValue:   filtersutil.SetScalar(ns.Namespace),
 		CreateKind: yaml.ScalarNode, // Namespace is a ScalarNode
-		CreateTag:  yaml.StringTag,
+		CreateTag:  yaml.NodeTagString,
 	})
 	return node, err
 }
@@ -67,13 +69,13 @@ func (ns Filter) hacks(obj *yaml.RNode) error {
 // metaNamespaceHack is a hack for implementing the namespace transform
 // for the metadata.namespace field on namespace scoped resources.
 // namespace scoped resources are determined by NOT being present
-// in a blacklist of cluster-scoped resource types (by apiVersion and kind).
+// in a hard-coded list of cluster-scoped resource types (by apiVersion and kind).
 //
 // This hack should be updated to allow individual resources to specify
 // if they are cluster scoped through either an annotation on the resources,
 // or through inlined OpenAPI on the resource as a YAML comment.
 func (ns Filter) metaNamespaceHack(obj *yaml.RNode, meta yaml.ResourceMeta) error {
-	gvk := fsslice.GetGVK(meta)
+	gvk := fieldspec.GetGVK(meta)
 	if !gvk.IsNamespaceableKind() {
 		return nil
 	}
@@ -81,7 +83,7 @@ func (ns Filter) metaNamespaceHack(obj *yaml.RNode, meta yaml.ResourceMeta) erro
 		FsSlice: []types.FieldSpec{
 			{Path: types.MetadataNamespacePath, CreateIfNotPresent: true},
 		},
-		SetValue:   fsslice.SetScalar(ns.Namespace),
+		SetValue:   filtersutil.SetScalar(ns.Namespace),
 		CreateKind: yaml.ScalarNode, // Namespace is a ScalarNode
 	}
 	_, err := f.Filter(obj)
@@ -110,7 +112,7 @@ func (ns Filter) roleBindingHack(obj *yaml.RNode, meta yaml.ResourceMeta) error
 	// Lookup the namespace field on all elements.
 	// We should change the fieldspec so this isn't necessary.
 	obj, err := obj.Pipe(yaml.Lookup(subjectsField))
-	if err != nil || yaml.IsEmpty(obj) {
+	if err != nil || yaml.IsMissingOrNull(obj) {
 		return err
 	}
 
@@ -123,7 +125,7 @@ func (ns Filter) roleBindingHack(obj *yaml.RNode, meta yaml.ResourceMeta) error
 		name, err := o.Pipe(
 			yaml.Lookup("name"), yaml.Match("default"),
 		)
-		if err != nil || yaml.IsEmpty(name) {
+		if err != nil || yaml.IsMissingOrNull(name) {
 			return err
 		}
 

api/filters/patchstrategicmerge/patchstrategicmerge.go

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+// Copyright 2019 The Kubernetes Authors.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
 package patchstrategicmerge
 
 import (
@@ -13,9 +16,18 @@ type Filter struct {
 var _ kio.Filter = Filter{}
 
 func (pf Filter) Filter(nodes []*yaml.RNode) ([]*yaml.RNode, error) {
-	return kio.FilterAll(yaml.FilterFunc(pf.run)).Filter(nodes)
+	var result []*yaml.RNode
-}
+	for i := range nodes {
-
+		r, err := merge2.Merge(
-func (pf Filter) run(node *yaml.RNode) (*yaml.RNode, error) {
+			pf.Patch, nodes[i],
-	return merge2.Merge(pf.Patch, node)
+			yaml.MergeOptions{
+				ListIncreaseDirection: yaml.MergeOptionsListPrepend,
+			},
+		)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		result = append(result, r)
+	}
+	return result, nil
 }

api/filters/patchstrategicmerge/patchstrategicmerge_test.go

@@ -31,6 +31,86 @@ apiVersion: apps/v1
 metadata:
   name: yourDeploy
 kind: Deployment
+`,
+		},
+		"container patch": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+metadata:
+  name: myDeploy
+kind: Deployment
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: foo1
+      - name: foo2
+      - name: foo3
+`,
+			patch: yaml.MustParse(`
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+metadata:
+  name: myDeploy
+kind: Deployment
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: foo0
+`),
+			expected: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+metadata:
+  name: myDeploy
+kind: Deployment
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: foo0
+      - name: foo1
+      - name: foo2
+      - name: foo3
+`,
+		},
+		"volumes patch": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+metadata:
+  name: myDeploy
+kind: Deployment
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      volumes:
+      - name: foo1
+      - name: foo2
+      - name: foo3
+`,
+			patch: yaml.MustParse(`
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+metadata:
+  name: myDeploy
+kind: Deployment
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      volumes:
+      - name: foo0
+`),
+			expected: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+metadata:
+  name: myDeploy
+kind: Deployment
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      volumes:
+      - name: foo0
+      - name: foo1
+      - name: foo2
+      - name: foo3
 `,
 		},
 		"nested patch": {
@@ -62,6 +142,234 @@ spec:
   - name: nginx
     args:
     - def
+`,
+		},
+		"remove mapping - directive": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: myDeploy
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: test
+        image: test
+`,
+			patch: yaml.MustParse(`
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: myDeploy
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: test
+        image: test
+        $patch: delete   
+`),
+			expected: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: myDeploy
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers: []
+`,
+		},
+		"replace mapping - directive": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: myDeploy
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: test
+        image: test
+`,
+			patch: yaml.MustParse(`
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: myDeploy
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      $patch: replace
+      containers:
+      - name: new
+`),
+			expected: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: myDeploy
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: new
+`,
+		},
+		"merge mapping - directive": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: myDeploy
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: test
+        image: test
+`,
+			patch: yaml.MustParse(`
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: myDeploy
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: test
+        image: test1
+        $patch: merge   
+`),
+			expected: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: myDeploy
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: test
+        image: test1
+`,
+		},
+		"remove list - directive": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: myDeploy
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: test
+        image: test
+`,
+			patch: yaml.MustParse(`
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: myDeploy
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - whatever
+      - $patch: delete
+`),
+			expected: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: myDeploy
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec: {}
+`,
+		},
+		"replace list - directive": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: myDeploy
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: test
+        image: test
+`,
+			patch: yaml.MustParse(`
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: myDeploy
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: replace
+        image: replace
+      - $patch: replace   
+`),
+			expected: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: myDeploy
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: replace
+        image: replace
+`,
+		},
+		"merge list - directive": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: myDeploy
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: test
+        image: test
+`,
+			patch: yaml.MustParse(`
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: myDeploy
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: test2
+        image: test2
+      - $patch: merge   
+`),
+			expected: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: myDeploy
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: test2
+        image: test2
+      - name: test
+        image: test
 `,
 		},
 	}

api/filters/prefixsuffix/example_test.go

@@ -9,12 +9,11 @@ import (
 	"os"
 
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/prefixsuffix"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/plugins/builtinconfig"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/kio"
 )
 
 func ExampleFilter() {
-	fss := builtinconfig.MakeDefaultConfig().NamePrefix
 	err := kio.Pipeline{
 		Inputs: []kio.Reader{&kio.ByteReader{Reader: bytes.NewBufferString(`
 apiVersion: example.com/v1
@@ -27,7 +26,8 @@ kind: Bar
 metadata:
   name: instance
 `)}},
-		Filters: []kio.Filter{prefixsuffix.Filter{Prefix: "baz-", FsSlice: fss}},
+		Filters: []kio.Filter{prefixsuffix.Filter{
+			Prefix: "baz-", FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{Path: "metadata/name"}}},
 		Outputs: []kio.Writer{kio.ByteWriter{Writer: os.Stdout}},
 	}.Execute()
 	if err != nil {

api/filters/prefixsuffix/prefixsuffix.go

@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ package prefixsuffix
 import (
 	"fmt"
 
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/fsslice"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/fieldspec"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/filtersutil"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/kio"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/yaml"
@@ -17,28 +18,26 @@ type Filter struct {
 	Prefix string `json:"prefix,omitempty" yaml:"prefix,omitempty"`
 	Suffix string `json:"suffix,omitempty" yaml:"suffix,omitempty"`
 
-	FsSlice types.FsSlice `json:"fieldSpecs,omitempty" yaml:"fieldSpecs,omitempty"`
+	FieldSpec types.FieldSpec `json:"fieldSpec,omitempty" yaml:"fieldSpec,omitempty"`
 }
 
 var _ kio.Filter = Filter{}
 
-func (ns Filter) Filter(nodes []*yaml.RNode) ([]*yaml.RNode, error) {
+func (f Filter) Filter(nodes []*yaml.RNode) ([]*yaml.RNode, error) {
-	return kio.FilterAll(yaml.FilterFunc(ns.run)).Filter(nodes)
+	return kio.FilterAll(yaml.FilterFunc(f.run)).Filter(nodes)
 }
 
-// Run runs the filter on a single node rather than a slice
+func (f Filter) run(node *yaml.RNode) (*yaml.RNode, error) {
-func (ns Filter) run(node *yaml.RNode) (*yaml.RNode, error) {
+	err := node.PipeE(fieldspec.Filter{
-	// transformations based on data -- :)
+		FieldSpec:  f.FieldSpec,
-	err := node.PipeE(fsslice.Filter{
+		SetValue:   f.evaluateField,
-		FsSlice:    ns.FsSlice,
-		SetValue:   ns.set,
 		CreateKind: yaml.ScalarNode, // Name is a ScalarNode
-		CreateTag:  yaml.StringTag,
+		CreateTag:  yaml.NodeTagString,
 	})
 	return node, err
 }
 
-func (ns Filter) set(node *yaml.RNode) error {
+func (f Filter) evaluateField(node *yaml.RNode) error {
-	return fsslice.SetScalar(fmt.Sprintf(
+	return filtersutil.SetScalar(fmt.Sprintf(
-		"%s%s%s", ns.Prefix, node.YNode().Value, ns.Suffix))(node)
+		"%s%s%s", f.Prefix, node.YNode().Value, f.Suffix))(node)
 }

api/filters/prefixsuffix/prefixsuffix_test.go

@@ -9,14 +9,12 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/prefixsuffix"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/plugins/builtinconfig"
 	filtertest_test "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/testutils/filtertest"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
 )
 
-var tests = []TestCase{
+var tests = map[string]TestCase{
-	{
+	"prefix": {
-		name: "prefix",
 		input: `
 apiVersion: example.com/v1
 kind: Foo
@@ -40,10 +38,10 @@ metadata:
   name: foo-instance
 `,
 		filter: prefixsuffix.Filter{Prefix: "foo-"},
+		fs:     types.FieldSpec{Path: "metadata/name"},
 	},
 
-	{
+	"suffix": {
-		name: "suffix",
 		input: `
 apiVersion: example.com/v1
 kind: Foo
@@ -67,10 +65,10 @@ metadata:
   name: instance-foo
 `,
 		filter: prefixsuffix.Filter{Suffix: "-foo"},
+		fs:     types.FieldSpec{Path: "metadata/name"},
 	},
 
-	{
+	"prefix-suffix": {
-		name: "prefix-suffix",
 		input: `
 apiVersion: example.com/v1
 kind: Foo
@@ -94,10 +92,10 @@ metadata:
   name: bar-instance-foo
 `,
 		filter: prefixsuffix.Filter{Prefix: "bar-", Suffix: "-foo"},
+		fs:     types.FieldSpec{Path: "metadata/name"},
 	},
 
-	{
+	"data-fieldspecs": {
-		name: "data-fieldspecs",
 		input: `
 apiVersion: example.com/v1
 kind: Foo
@@ -119,7 +117,7 @@ a:
 apiVersion: example.com/v1
 kind: Foo
 metadata:
-  name: foo-instance
+  name: instance
 a:
   b:
     c: foo-d
@@ -127,35 +125,28 @@ a:
 apiVersion: example.com/v1
 kind: Bar
 metadata:
-  name: foo-instance
+  name: instance
 a:
   b:
     c: foo-d
 `,
 		filter: prefixsuffix.Filter{Prefix: "foo-"},
-		fsslice: []types.FieldSpec{
+		fs:     types.FieldSpec{Path: "a/b/c"},
-			{
-				Path: "a/b/c",
-			},
-		},
 	},
 }
 
 type TestCase struct {
-	name     string
 	input    string
 	expected string
 	filter   prefixsuffix.Filter
-	fsslice  types.FsSlice
+	fs       types.FieldSpec
 }
 
-var config = builtinconfig.MakeDefaultConfig()
-
 func TestFilter(t *testing.T) {
-	for i := range tests {
+	for name := range tests {
-		test := tests[i]
+		test := tests[name]
-		t.Run(test.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			test.filter.FsSlice = append(config.NamePrefix, test.fsslice...)
+			test.filter.FieldSpec = test.fs
 			if !assert.Equal(t,
 				strings.TrimSpace(test.expected),
 				strings.TrimSpace(

api/filters/refvar/doc.go

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+// Package refvar contains a kio.Filter implementation of the kustomize
+// refvar transformer.
+package refvar

api/filters/refvar/refvar.go

@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+package refvar
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"strconv"
+
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/fieldspec"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/kio"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/yaml"
+
+	expansion2 "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/accumulator/expansion"
+)
+
+// Filter updates $(VAR) style variables with values.
+// The fieldSpecs are the places to look for occurrences of $(VAR).
+type Filter struct {
+	MappingFunc func(string) interface{} `json:"mappingFunc,omitempty" yaml:"mappingFunc,omitempty"`
+	FieldSpec   types.FieldSpec          `json:"fieldSpec,omitempty" yaml:"fieldSpec,omitempty"`
+}
+
+func (f Filter) Filter(nodes []*yaml.RNode) ([]*yaml.RNode, error) {
+	return kio.FilterAll(yaml.FilterFunc(f.run)).Filter(nodes)
+}
+
+func (f Filter) run(node *yaml.RNode) (*yaml.RNode, error) {
+	err := node.PipeE(fieldspec.Filter{
+		FieldSpec: f.FieldSpec,
+		SetValue:  f.set,
+	})
+	return node, err
+}
+
+func (f Filter) set(node *yaml.RNode) error {
+	if yaml.IsMissingOrNull(node) {
+		return nil
+	}
+	switch node.YNode().Kind {
+	case yaml.ScalarNode:
+		return f.setScalar(node)
+	case yaml.MappingNode:
+		return f.setMap(node)
+	case yaml.SequenceNode:
+		return f.setSeq(node)
+	default:
+		return fmt.Errorf("invalid type encountered %v", node.YNode().Kind)
+	}
+}
+
+func updateNodeValue(node *yaml.Node, newValue interface{}) {
+	switch newValue := newValue.(type) {
+	case int64:
+		node.Value = strconv.FormatInt(newValue, 10)
+		node.Tag = yaml.NodeTagInt
+	case bool:
+		node.SetString(strconv.FormatBool(newValue))
+		node.Tag = yaml.NodeTagBool
+	case float64:
+		node.SetString(strconv.FormatFloat(newValue, 'f', -1, 64))
+		node.Tag = yaml.NodeTagFloat
+	default:
+		node.SetString(newValue.(string))
+		node.Tag = yaml.NodeTagString
+	}
+	node.Style = 0
+}
+
+func (f Filter) setScalar(node *yaml.RNode) error {
+	if !yaml.IsYNodeString(node.YNode()) {
+		return nil
+	}
+	v := expansion2.Expand(node.YNode().Value, f.MappingFunc)
+	updateNodeValue(node.YNode(), v)
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (f Filter) setMap(node *yaml.RNode) error {
+	contents := node.YNode().Content
+	for i := 0; i < len(contents); i += 2 {
+		if !yaml.IsYNodeString(contents[i]) {
+			return fmt.Errorf("invalid map key: %s, type: %s", contents[i].Value, contents[i].Tag)
+		}
+		if !yaml.IsYNodeString(contents[i+1]) {
+			continue
+		}
+		newValue := expansion2.Expand(contents[i+1].Value, f.MappingFunc)
+		updateNodeValue(contents[i+1], newValue)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (f Filter) setSeq(node *yaml.RNode) error {
+	for _, item := range node.YNode().Content {
+		if !yaml.IsYNodeString(item) {
+			return fmt.Errorf("invalid value type expect a string")
+		}
+		newValue := expansion2.Expand(item.Value, f.MappingFunc)
+		updateNodeValue(item, newValue)
+	}
+	return nil
+}

api/filters/refvar/refvar_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,293 @@
+package refvar
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	expansion2 "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/accumulator/expansion"
+	filtertest_test "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/testutils/filtertest"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/yaml"
+)
+
+func TestFilter(t *testing.T) {
+	replacementCounts := make(map[string]int)
+
+	testCases := map[string]struct {
+		input    string
+		expected string
+		filter   Filter
+	}{
+		"simple scalar": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+spec:
+  replicas: $(VAR)`,
+			expected: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+spec:
+  replicas: 5`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				MappingFunc: expansion2.MappingFuncFor(replacementCounts, map[string]interface{}{
+					"VAR": int64(5),
+				}),
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{Path: "spec/replicas"},
+			},
+		},
+		"non-string scalar": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+spec:
+  replicas: 1`,
+			expected: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+spec:
+  replicas: 1`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				MappingFunc: expansion2.MappingFuncFor(replacementCounts, map[string]interface{}{
+					"VAR": int64(5),
+				}),
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{Path: "spec/replicas"},
+			},
+		},
+		"wrong path": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+spec:
+  replicas: 1`,
+			expected: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+spec:
+  replicas: 1`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				MappingFunc: expansion2.MappingFuncFor(replacementCounts, map[string]interface{}{
+					"VAR": int64(5),
+				}),
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{Path: "a/b/c"},
+			},
+		},
+		"sequence": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+data:
+- $(FOO)
+- $(BAR)
+- $(BAZ)
+- $(FOO)+$(BAR)
+- $(BOOL)
+- $(FLOAT)`,
+			expected: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+data:
+- foo
+- bar
+- $(BAZ)
+- foo+bar
+- false
+- 1.23`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				MappingFunc: expansion2.MappingFuncFor(replacementCounts, map[string]interface{}{
+					"FOO":   "foo",
+					"BAR":   "bar",
+					"BOOL":  false,
+					"FLOAT": 1.23,
+				}),
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{Path: "data"},
+			},
+		},
+		"maps": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+data:
+  FOO: $(FOO)
+  BAR: $(BAR)
+  BAZ: $(BAZ)
+  PLUS: $(FOO)+$(BAR)`,
+			expected: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+data:
+  FOO: foo
+  BAR: bar
+  BAZ: $(BAZ)
+  PLUS: foo+bar`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				MappingFunc: expansion2.MappingFuncFor(replacementCounts, map[string]interface{}{
+					"FOO": "foo",
+					"BAR": "bar",
+				}),
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{Path: "data"},
+			},
+		},
+		"complicated case": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+data:
+  slice1:
+  - $(FOO)
+  slice2:
+    FOO: $(FOO)
+    BAR: $(BAR)
+    BOOL: false
+    INT: 0
+    SLICE:
+    - $(FOO)`,
+			expected: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+data:
+  slice1:
+  - $(FOO)
+  slice2:
+    FOO: foo
+    BAR: bar
+    BOOL: false
+    INT: 0
+    SLICE:
+    - $(FOO)`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				MappingFunc: expansion2.MappingFuncFor(replacementCounts, map[string]interface{}{
+					"FOO": "foo",
+					"BAR": "bar",
+				}),
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{Path: "data/slice2"},
+			},
+		},
+		"null value": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+data:
+  FOO: null`,
+			expected: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+data:
+  FOO: null`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				MappingFunc: expansion2.MappingFuncFor(replacementCounts, map[string]interface{}{}),
+				FieldSpec:   types.FieldSpec{Path: "data/FOO"},
+			},
+		},
+	}
+
+	for tn, tc := range testCases {
+		t.Run(tn, func(t *testing.T) {
+			if !assert.Equal(t,
+				strings.TrimSpace(tc.expected),
+				strings.TrimSpace(
+					filtertest_test.RunFilter(t, tc.input, tc.filter))) {
+				t.FailNow()
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestFilterUnhappy(t *testing.T) {
+	replacementCounts := make(map[string]int)
+
+	testCases := map[string]struct {
+		input         string
+		expectedError string
+		filter        Filter
+	}{
+		"non-string in sequence": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+data:
+  slice:
+  - false`,
+			expectedError: `obj 'apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+  annotations:
+    config.kubernetes.io/index: '0'
+data:
+  slice:
+  - false
+' at path 'data/slice': invalid value type expect a string`,
+			filter: Filter{
+				MappingFunc: expansion2.MappingFuncFor(replacementCounts, map[string]interface{}{
+					"VAR": int64(5),
+				}),
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{Path: "data/slice"},
+			},
+		},
+		"invalid key in map": {
+			input: `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+data:
+  1: str`,
+			expectedError: `obj 'apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: dep
+  annotations:
+    config.kubernetes.io/index: '0'
+data:
+  1: str
+' at path 'data': invalid map key: 1, type: ` + yaml.NodeTagInt,
+			filter: Filter{
+				MappingFunc: expansion2.MappingFuncFor(replacementCounts, map[string]interface{}{
+					"VAR": int64(5),
+				}),
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{Path: "data"},
+			},
+		},
+	}
+
+	for tn, tc := range testCases {
+		t.Run(tn, func(t *testing.T) {
+			_, err := filtertest_test.RunFilterE(t, tc.input, tc.filter)
+			if !assert.EqualError(t, err, tc.expectedError) {
+				t.FailNow()
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}

api/filters/replicacount/example_test.go

@@ -33,10 +33,8 @@ spec:
 				Count: 42,
 				Name:  "instance",
 			},
-			FsSlice: types.FsSlice{
+			FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{
-				{
+				Path: "spec/template/replicas",
-					Path: "spec/template/replicas",
-				},
 			},
 		}},
 		Outputs: []kio.Writer{kio.ByteWriter{Writer: os.Stdout}},

api/filters/replicacount/replicacount.go

@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ package replicacount
 import (
 	"strconv"
 
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/fsslice"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/fieldspec"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/filtersutil"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/kio"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/yaml"
@@ -11,10 +12,8 @@ import (
 
 // Filter updates/sets replicas fields using the fieldSpecs
 type Filter struct {
-	Replica types.Replica `json:"replica,omitempty" yaml:"replica,omitempty"`
+	Replica   types.Replica   `json:"replica,omitempty" yaml:"replica,omitempty"`
-
+	FieldSpec types.FieldSpec `json:"fieldSpec,omitempty" yaml:"fieldSpec,omitempty"`
-	// FsSlice contains the FieldSpecs to locate the namespace field
-	FsSlice types.FsSlice `json:"fieldSpecs,omitempty" yaml:"fieldSpecs,omitempty"`
 }
 
 var _ kio.Filter = Filter{}
@@ -23,27 +22,16 @@ func (rc Filter) Filter(nodes []*yaml.RNode) ([]*yaml.RNode, error) {
 	return kio.FilterAll(yaml.FilterFunc(rc.run)).Filter(nodes)
 }
 
-// run processes each node individually.
 func (rc Filter) run(node *yaml.RNode) (*yaml.RNode, error) {
-	meta, err := node.GetMeta()
+	err := node.PipeE(fieldspec.Filter{
-	if err != nil {
+		FieldSpec:  rc.FieldSpec,
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	// only update resources where the name matches the Replica name.
-	if meta.Name != rc.Replica.Name {
-		return node, nil
-	}
-
-	err = node.PipeE(fsslice.Filter{
-		FsSlice:    rc.FsSlice,
 		SetValue:   rc.set,
 		CreateKind: yaml.ScalarNode, // replicas is a ScalarNode
-		CreateTag:  yaml.IntTag,
+		CreateTag:  yaml.NodeTagInt,
 	})
 	return node, err
 }
 
 func (rc Filter) set(node *yaml.RNode) error {
-	return fsslice.SetScalar(strconv.FormatInt(rc.Replica.Count, 10))(node)
+	return filtersutil.SetScalar(strconv.FormatInt(rc.Replica.Count, 10))(node)
 }

api/filters/replicacount/replicacount_test.go

@@ -5,19 +5,16 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/plugins/builtinconfig"
 	filtertest_test "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/testutils/filtertest"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
 )
 
 func TestFilter(t *testing.T) {
-	var config = builtinconfig.MakeDefaultConfig()
 
 	testCases := map[string]struct {
 		input    string
 		expected string
 		filter   Filter
-		fsslice  types.FsSlice
 	}{
 		"update field": {
 			input: `
@@ -41,11 +38,7 @@ spec:
 					Name:  "dep",
 					Count: 42,
 				},
-			},
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{Path: "spec/replicas"},
-			fsslice: types.FsSlice{
-				{
-					Path: "spec/replicas",
-				},
 			},
 		},
 		"add field": {
@@ -73,9 +66,7 @@ spec:
 					Name:  "cus",
 					Count: 42,
 				},
-			},
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{
-			fsslice: types.FsSlice{
-				{
 					Path:               "spec/template/replicas",
 					CreateIfNotPresent: true,
 				},
@@ -108,9 +99,7 @@ spec:
 					Name:  "cus",
 					Count: 42,
 				},
-			},
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{
-			fsslice: types.FsSlice{
-				{
 					Path:               "spec/template/replicas",
 					CreateIfNotPresent: true,
 				},
@@ -140,9 +129,7 @@ spec:
 					Name:  "cus",
 					Count: 42,
 				},
-			},
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{
-			fsslice: types.FsSlice{
-				{
 					Path: "spec/template/replicas",
 				},
 			},
@@ -154,7 +141,6 @@ kind: Custom
 metadata:
   name: cus
 spec:
-  replicas: 5
   template:
     replicas: 5
 `,
@@ -164,7 +150,6 @@ kind: Custom
 metadata:
   name: cus
 spec:
-  replicas: 42
   template:
     replicas: 42
 `,
@@ -173,21 +158,13 @@ spec:
 					Name:  "cus",
 					Count: 42,
 				},
-			},
+				FieldSpec: types.FieldSpec{Path: "spec/template/replicas"},
-			fsslice: types.FsSlice{
-				{
-					Path: "spec/template/replicas",
-				},
-				{
-					Path: "spec/replicas",
-				},
 			},
 		},
 	}
 
 	for tn, tc := range testCases {
 		t.Run(tn, func(t *testing.T) {
-			tc.filter.FsSlice = append(config.Replicas, tc.fsslice...)
 			if !assert.Equal(t,
 				strings.TrimSpace(tc.expected),
 				strings.TrimSpace(

api/go.mod

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 module sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api
 
-go 1.13
+go 1.14
 
 require (
 	github.com/evanphx/json-patch v4.5.0+incompatible
@@ -10,12 +10,13 @@ require (
 	github.com/pkg/errors v0.8.1
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.4.0
 	github.com/yujunz/go-getter v1.4.1-lite
-	golang.org/x/tools v0.0.0-20191010075000-0337d82405ff
+	golang.org/x/tools v0.0.0-20191119224855-298f0cb1881e
-	gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.2.8
+	gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.3.0
+	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.0-20200121175148-a6ecf24a6d71
 	k8s.io/api v0.17.0
 	k8s.io/apimachinery v0.17.0
 	k8s.io/client-go v0.17.0
 	k8s.io/kube-openapi v0.0.0-20191107075043-30be4d16710a
-	sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml v0.1.11
+	sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml v0.9.1
 	sigs.k8s.io/yaml v1.2.0
 )

api/go.sum

@@ -104,7 +104,6 @@ github.com/go-openapi/jsonpointer v0.19.3/go.mod h1:Pl9vOtqEWErmShwVjC8pYs9cog34
 github.com/go-openapi/jsonreference v0.0.0-20160704190145-13c6e3589ad9/go.mod h1:W3Z9FmVs9qj+KR4zFKmDPGiLdk1D9Rlm7cyMvf57TTg=
 github.com/go-openapi/jsonreference v0.17.0/go.mod h1:g4xxGn04lDIRh0GJb5QlpE3HfopLOL6uZrK/VgnsK9I=
 github.com/go-openapi/jsonreference v0.18.0/go.mod h1:g4xxGn04lDIRh0GJb5QlpE3HfopLOL6uZrK/VgnsK9I=
-github.com/go-openapi/jsonreference v0.19.2 h1:o20suLFB4Ri0tuzpWtyHlh7E7HnkqTNLq6aR6WVNS1w=
 github.com/go-openapi/jsonreference v0.19.2/go.mod h1:jMjeRr2HHw6nAVajTXJ4eiUwohSTlpa0o73RUL1owJc=
 github.com/go-openapi/jsonreference v0.19.3 h1:5cxNfTy0UVC3X8JL5ymxzyoUZmo8iZb+jeTWn7tUa8o=
 github.com/go-openapi/jsonreference v0.19.3/go.mod h1:rjx6GuL8TTa9VaixXglHmQmIL98+wF9xc8zWvFonSJ8=
@@ -167,7 +166,6 @@ github.com/gogo/protobuf v1.1.1/go.mod h1:r8qH/GZQm5c6nD/R0oafs1akxWv10x8SbQlK7a
 github.com/gogo/protobuf v1.2.1/go.mod h1:hp+jE20tsWTFYpLwKvXlhS1hjn+gTNwPg2I6zVXpSg4=
 github.com/gogo/protobuf v1.2.2-0.20190723190241-65acae22fc9d h1:3PaI8p3seN09VjbTYC/QWlUZdZ1qS1zGjy7LH2Wt07I=
 github.com/gogo/protobuf v1.2.2-0.20190723190241-65acae22fc9d/go.mod h1:SlYgWuQ5SjCEi6WLHjHCa1yvBfUnHcTbrrZtXPKa29o=
-github.com/golang/glog v0.0.0-20160126235308-23def4e6c14b h1:VKtxabqXZkF25pY9ekfRL6a582T4P37/31XEstQ5p58=
 github.com/golang/glog v0.0.0-20160126235308-23def4e6c14b/go.mod h1:SBH7ygxi8pfUlaOkMMuAQtPIUF8ecWP5IEl/CR7VP2Q=
 github.com/golang/groupcache v0.0.0-20160516000752-02826c3e7903/go.mod h1:cIg4eruTrX1D+g88fzRXU5OdNfaM+9IcxsU14FzY7Hc=
 github.com/golang/groupcache v0.0.0-20190129154638-5b532d6fd5ef/go.mod h1:cIg4eruTrX1D+g88fzRXU5OdNfaM+9IcxsU14FzY7Hc=
@@ -241,6 +239,7 @@ github.com/hashicorp/go-safetemp v1.0.0/go.mod h1:oaerMy3BhqiTbVye6QuFhFtIceqFoD
 github.com/hashicorp/go-version v1.1.0 h1:bPIoEKD27tNdebFGGxxYwcL4nepeY4j1QP23PFRGzg0=
 github.com/hashicorp/go-version v1.1.0/go.mod h1:fltr4n8CU8Ke44wwGCBoEymUuxUHl09ZGVZPK5anwXA=
 github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru v0.5.0/go.mod h1:/m3WP610KZHVQ1SGc6re/UDhFvYD7pJ4Ao+sR/qLZy8=
+github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru v0.5.1 h1:0hERBMJE1eitiLkihrMvRVBYAkpHzc/J3QdDN+dAcgU=
 github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru v0.5.1/go.mod h1:/m3WP610KZHVQ1SGc6re/UDhFvYD7pJ4Ao+sR/qLZy8=
 github.com/hashicorp/hcl v1.0.0 h1:0Anlzjpi4vEasTeNFn2mLJgTSwt0+6sfsiTG8qcWGx4=
 github.com/hashicorp/hcl v1.0.0/go.mod h1:E5yfLk+7swimpb2L/Alb/PJmXilQ/rhwaUYs4T20WEQ=
@@ -281,7 +280,6 @@ github.com/mailru/easyjson v0.0.0-20160728113105-d5b7844b561a/go.mod h1:C1wdFJiN
 github.com/mailru/easyjson v0.0.0-20180823135443-60711f1a8329/go.mod h1:C1wdFJiN94OJF2b5HbByQZoLdCWB1Yqtg26g4irojpc=
 github.com/mailru/easyjson v0.0.0-20190312143242-1de009706dbe/go.mod h1:C1wdFJiN94OJF2b5HbByQZoLdCWB1Yqtg26g4irojpc=
 github.com/mailru/easyjson v0.0.0-20190614124828-94de47d64c63/go.mod h1:C1wdFJiN94OJF2b5HbByQZoLdCWB1Yqtg26g4irojpc=
-github.com/mailru/easyjson v0.0.0-20190626092158-b2ccc519800e h1:hB2xlXdHp/pmPZq0y3QnmWAArdw9PqbmotexnWx/FU8=
 github.com/mailru/easyjson v0.0.0-20190626092158-b2ccc519800e/go.mod h1:C1wdFJiN94OJF2b5HbByQZoLdCWB1Yqtg26g4irojpc=
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api/hasher/hasher.go

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
 	"sort"
+
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/yaml"
 )
 
 // SortArrayAndComputeHash sorts a string array and
@@ -50,3 +52,105 @@ func Encode(hex string) (string, error) {
 func Hash(data string) string {
 	return fmt.Sprintf("%x", sha256.Sum256([]byte(data)))
 }
+
+// HashRNode returns the hash value of input RNode
+func HashRNode(node *yaml.RNode) (string, error) {
+	// get node kind
+	kindNode, err := node.Pipe(yaml.FieldMatcher{Name: "kind"})
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	kind := kindNode.YNode().Value
+
+	// calculate hash for different kinds
+	encoded := ""
+	switch kind {
+	case "ConfigMap":
+		encoded, err = encodeConfigMap(node)
+	case "Secret":
+		encoded, err = encodeSecret(node)
+	default:
+		var encodedBytes []byte
+		encodedBytes, err = json.Marshal(node.YNode())
+		encoded = string(encodedBytes)
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	return Encode(Hash(encoded))
+}
+
+func getNodeValues(node *yaml.RNode, paths []string) (map[string]interface{}, error) {
+	values := make(map[string]interface{})
+	for _, p := range paths {
+		vn, err := node.Pipe(yaml.Lookup(p))
+		if err != nil {
+			return map[string]interface{}{}, err
+		}
+		if vn == nil {
+			values[p] = ""
+			continue
+		}
+		if vn.YNode().Kind != yaml.ScalarNode {
+			vs, err := vn.MarshalJSON()
+			if err != nil {
+				return map[string]interface{}{}, err
+			}
+			// data, binaryData and stringData are all maps
+			var v map[string]interface{}
+			json.Unmarshal(vs, &v)
+			values[p] = v
+		} else {
+			values[p] = vn.YNode().Value
+		}
+	}
+	return values, nil
+}
+
+// encodeConfigMap encodes a ConfigMap.
+// Data, Kind, and Name are taken into account.
+// BinaryData is included if it's not empty to avoid useless key in output.
+func encodeConfigMap(node *yaml.RNode) (string, error) {
+	// get fields
+	paths := []string{"metadata/name", "data", "binaryData"}
+	values, err := getNodeValues(node, paths)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	m := map[string]interface{}{"kind": "ConfigMap", "name": values["metadata/name"],
+		"data": values["data"]}
+	if _, ok := values["binaryData"].(map[string]interface{}); ok {
+		m["binaryData"] = values["binaryData"]
+	}
+
+	// json.Marshal sorts the keys in a stable order in the encoding
+	data, err := json.Marshal(m)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	return string(data), nil
+}
+
+// encodeSecret encodes a Secret.
+// Data, Kind, Name, and Type are taken into account.
+// StringData is included if it's not empty to avoid useless key in output.
+func encodeSecret(node *yaml.RNode) (string, error) {
+	// get fields
+	paths := []string{"type", "metadata/name", "data", "stringData"}
+	values, err := getNodeValues(node, paths)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	m := map[string]interface{}{"kind": "Secret", "type": values["type"],
+		"name": values["metadata/name"], "data": values["data"]}
+	if _, ok := values["stringData"].(map[string]interface{}); ok {
+		m["stringData"] = values["stringData"]
+	}
+
+	// json.Marshal sorts the keys in a stable order in the encoding
+	data, err := json.Marshal(m)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	return string(data), nil
+}

api/hasher/hasher_test.go

@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 // Copyright 2019 The Kubernetes Authors.
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
-package hasher_test
+package hasher
 
 import (
+	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
-	. "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/hasher"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/yaml"
 )
 
 func TestSortArrayAndComputeHash(t *testing.T) {
@@ -39,3 +40,314 @@ func TestHash(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("expected hash %q but got %q", expect, sum)
 	}
 }
+
+func TestConfigMapHash(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		desc   string
+		cmYaml string
+		hash   string
+		err    string
+	}{
+		// empty map
+		{"empty data", `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap`, "6ct58987ht", ""},
+		// one key
+		{"one key", `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+data: 
+  one: ""`, "9g67k2htb6", ""},
+		// three keys (tests sorting order)
+		{"three keys", `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+data:
+  two: 2
+  one: ""
+  three: 3`, "7757f9kkct", ""},
+		// empty binary data map
+		{"empty binary data", `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap`, "6ct58987ht", ""},
+		// one key with binary data
+		{"one key with binary data", `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+binaryData:
+  one: ""`, "6mtk2m274t", ""},
+		// three keys with binary data (tests sorting order)
+		{"three keys with binary data", `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+binaryData:
+  two: 2
+  one: ""
+  three: 3`, "9th7kc28dg", ""},
+		// two keys, one with string and another with binary data
+		{"two keys with one each", `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+data:
+  one: ""
+binaryData:
+  two: ""`, "698h7c7t9m", ""},
+	}
+
+	for _, c := range cases {
+		node, err := yaml.Parse(c.cmYaml)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		h, err := HashRNode(node)
+		if SkipRest(t, c.desc, err, c.err) {
+			continue
+		}
+		if c.hash != h {
+			t.Errorf("case %q, expect hash %q but got %q", c.desc, c.hash, h)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSecretHash(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		desc       string
+		secretYaml string
+		hash       string
+		err        string
+	}{
+		// empty map
+		{"empty data", `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Secret
+type: my-type`, "5gmgkf8578", ""},
+		// one key
+		{"one key", `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Secret
+type: my-type
+data:
+  one: ""`, "74bd68bm66", ""},
+		// three keys (tests sorting order)
+		{"three keys", `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Secret
+type: my-type
+data:
+  two: 2
+  one: ""
+  three: 3`, "4gf75c7476", ""},
+		// with stringdata
+		{"stringdata", `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Secret
+type: my-type
+data:
+  one: ""
+stringData:
+  two: 2`, "c4h4264gdb", ""},
+		// empty stringdata
+		{"empty stringdata", `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Secret
+type: my-type
+data:
+  one: ""`, "74bd68bm66", ""},
+	}
+
+	for _, c := range cases {
+		node, err := yaml.Parse(c.secretYaml)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		h, err := HashRNode(node)
+		if SkipRest(t, c.desc, err, c.err) {
+			continue
+		}
+		if c.hash != h {
+			t.Errorf("case %q, expect hash %q but got %q", c.desc, c.hash, h)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestUnstructuredHash(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		desc         string
+		unstructured string
+		hash         string
+		err          string
+	}{
+		{"minimal", `
+apiVersion: test/v1
+kind: TestResource
+metadata:
+  name: my-resource`, "244782mkb7", ""},
+		{"with spec", `
+apiVersion: test/v1
+kind: TestResource
+metadata:
+  name: my-resource
+spec:
+  foo: 1
+  bar: abc`, "59m2mdccg4", ""},
+	}
+
+	for _, c := range cases {
+		node, err := yaml.Parse(c.unstructured)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		h, err := HashRNode(node)
+		if SkipRest(t, c.desc, err, c.err) {
+			continue
+		}
+		if c.hash != h {
+			t.Errorf("case %q, expect hash %q but got %q", c.desc, c.hash, h)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestEncodeConfigMap(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		desc   string
+		cmYaml string
+		expect string
+		err    string
+	}{
+		// empty map
+		{"empty data", `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap`, `{"data":"","kind":"ConfigMap","name":""}`, ""},
+		// one key
+		{"one key", `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+data: 
+  one: ""`, `{"data":{"one":""},"kind":"ConfigMap","name":""}`, ""},
+		// three keys (tests sorting order)
+		{"three keys", `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+data:
+  two: 2
+  one: ""
+  three: 3`, `{"data":{"one":"","three":3,"two":2},"kind":"ConfigMap","name":""}`, ""},
+		// empty binary map
+		{"empty data", `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap`, `{"data":"","kind":"ConfigMap","name":""}`, ""},
+		// one key with binary data
+		{"one key", `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+binaryData:
+  one: ""`, `{"binaryData":{"one":""},"data":"","kind":"ConfigMap","name":""}`, ""},
+		// three keys with binary data (tests sorting order)
+		{"three keys", `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+binaryData:
+  two: 2
+  one: ""
+  three: 3`, `{"binaryData":{"one":"","three":3,"two":2},"data":"","kind":"ConfigMap","name":""}`, ""},
+		// two keys, one string and one binary values
+		{"two keys with one each", `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+data:
+  one: ""
+binaryData:
+  two: ""`, `{"binaryData":{"two":""},"data":{"one":""},"kind":"ConfigMap","name":""}`, ""},
+	}
+	for _, c := range cases {
+		node, err := yaml.Parse(c.cmYaml)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		s, err := encodeConfigMap(node)
+		if SkipRest(t, c.desc, err, c.err) {
+			continue
+		}
+		if s != c.expect {
+			t.Errorf("case %q, expect %q but got %q from encode %#v", c.desc, c.expect, s, c.cmYaml)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestEncodeSecret(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		desc       string
+		secretYaml string
+		expect     string
+		err        string
+	}{
+		// empty map
+		{"empty data", `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Secret
+type: my-type`, `{"data":"","kind":"Secret","name":"","type":"my-type"}`, ""},
+		// one key
+		{"one key", `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Secret
+type: my-type
+data:
+  one: ""`, `{"data":{"one":""},"kind":"Secret","name":"","type":"my-type"}`, ""},
+		// three keys (tests sorting order) - note json.Marshal base64 encodes the values because they come in as []byte
+		{"three keys", `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Secret
+type: my-type
+data:
+  two: 2
+  one: ""
+  three: 3`, `{"data":{"one":"","three":3,"two":2},"kind":"Secret","name":"","type":"my-type"}`, ""},
+		// with stringdata
+		{"stringdata", `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Secret
+type: my-type
+data:
+  one: ""
+stringData:
+  two: 2`, `{"data":{"one":""},"kind":"Secret","name":"","stringData":{"two":2},"type":"my-type"}`, ""},
+		// empty stringdata
+		{"empty stringdata", `
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Secret
+type: my-type
+data:
+  one: ""`, `{"data":{"one":""},"kind":"Secret","name":"","type":"my-type"}`, ""},
+	}
+	for _, c := range cases {
+		node, err := yaml.Parse(c.secretYaml)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		s, err := encodeSecret(node)
+		if SkipRest(t, c.desc, err, c.err) {
+			continue
+		}
+		if s != c.expect {
+			t.Errorf("case %q, expect %q but got %q from encode %#v", c.desc, c.expect, s, c.secretYaml)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// SkipRest returns true if there was a non-nil error or if we expected an error that didn't happen,
+// and logs the appropriate error on the test object.
+// The return value indicates whether we should skip the rest of the test case due to the error result.
+func SkipRest(t *testing.T, desc string, err error, contains string) bool {
+	if err != nil {
+		if len(contains) == 0 {
+			t.Errorf("case %q, expect nil error but got %q", desc, err.Error())
+		} else if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), contains) {
+			t.Errorf("case %q, expect error to contain %q but got %q", desc, contains, err.Error())
+		}
+		return true
+	} else if len(contains) > 0 {
+		t.Errorf("case %q, expect error to contain %q but got nil error", desc, contains)
+		return true
+	}
+	return false
+}

api/ifc/ifc.go

@@ -38,36 +38,69 @@ type Loader interface {
 	Cleanup() error
 }
 
-// Kunstructured allows manipulation of k8s objects
+// Kunstructured represents a Kubernetes Resource Model object.
-// that do not have Golang structs.
 type Kunstructured interface {
-	Map() map[string]interface{}
+	// Several uses.
-	SetMap(map[string]interface{})
 	Copy() Kunstructured
-	GetFieldValue(string) (interface{}, error)
+
-	GetString(string) (string, error)
+	// Used by Resource.Replace, which in turn is used in many places, e.g.
-	GetStringSlice(string) ([]string, error)
+	//  - resource.Resource.Merge
-	GetBool(path string) (bool, error)
+	//  - resWrangler.appendReplaceOrMerge (AbsorbAll)
-	GetFloat64(path string) (float64, error)
+	//  - api.internal.k8sdeps.transformer.patch.conflictdetector
-	GetInt64(path string) (int64, error)
-	GetSlice(path string) ([]interface{}, error)
-	GetStringMap(path string) (map[string]string, error)
-	GetMap(path string) (map[string]interface{}, error)
-	MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error)
-	UnmarshalJSON([]byte) error
-	GetGvk() resid.Gvk
-	SetGvk(resid.Gvk)
-	GetKind() string
-	GetName() string
-	SetName(string)
-	SetNamespace(string)
-	GetLabels() map[string]string
-	SetLabels(map[string]string)
 	GetAnnotations() map[string]string
-	SetAnnotations(map[string]string)
+
-	MatchesLabelSelector(selector string) (bool, error)
+	// Used by ResAccumulator and ReplacementTransformer.
+	GetFieldValue(string) (interface{}, error)
+
+	// Used by Resource.OrgId
+	GetGvk() resid.Gvk
+
+	// Used by resource.Factory.SliceFromBytes
+	GetKind() string
+
+	// Used by Resource.Replace
+	GetLabels() map[string]string
+
+	// Used by Resource.CurId and resource factory.
+	GetName() string
+
+	// Used by special case code in
+	// ResMap.SubsetThatCouldBeReferencedByResource
+	GetSlice(path string) ([]interface{}, error)
+
+	// GetString returns the value of a string field.
+	// Used by Resource.GetNamespace
+	GetString(string) (string, error)
+
+	// Several uses.
+	Map() map[string]interface{}
+
+	// Used by Resource.AsYAML and Resource.String
+	MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error)
+
+	// Used by resWrangler.Select
 	MatchesAnnotationSelector(selector string) (bool, error)
-	Patch(Kunstructured) error
+
+	// Used by resWrangler.Select
+	MatchesLabelSelector(selector string) (bool, error)
+
+	// Used by Resource.Replace.
+	SetAnnotations(map[string]string)
+
+	// Used by PatchStrategicMergeTransformer.
+	SetGvk(resid.Gvk)
+
+	// Used by Resource.Replace and used to remove "validated by" labels.
+	SetLabels(map[string]string)
+
+	// Used by Resource.Replace.
+	SetName(string)
+
+	// Used by Resource.Replace.
+	SetNamespace(string)
+
+	// Needed, for now, by kyaml/filtersutil.ApplyToJSON.
+	UnmarshalJSON([]byte) error
 }
 
 // KunstructuredFactory makes instances of Kunstructured.

api/internal/accumulator/namereferencetransformer.go

@@ -4,14 +4,12 @@
 package accumulator
 
 import (
-	"fmt"
 	"log"
 
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/nameref"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/plugins/builtinconfig"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resid"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resmap"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resource"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/filtersutil"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/transform"
 )
 
 type nameReferenceTransformer struct {
@@ -86,16 +84,12 @@ func (o *nameReferenceTransformer) Transform(m resmap.ResMap) error {
 					if candidates == nil {
 						candidates = m.SubsetThatCouldBeReferencedByResource(referrer)
 					}
-					err := transform.MutateField(
+					err := filtersutil.ApplyToJSON(nameref.Filter{
-						referrer.Map(),
+						FieldSpec:          fSpec,
-						fSpec.PathSlice(),
+						Referrer:           referrer,
-						fSpec.CreateIfNotPresent,
+						Target:             target.Gvk,
-						o.getNewNameFunc(
+						ReferralCandidates: candidates,
-							// referrer could be an HPA instance,
+					}, referrer)
-							// target could be Gvk for Deployment,
-							// candidate a list of resources "reachable"
-							// from the HPA.
-							referrer, target.Gvk, candidates))
 					if err != nil {
 						return err
 					}
@@ -105,165 +99,3 @@ func (o *nameReferenceTransformer) Transform(m resmap.ResMap) error {
 	}
 	return nil
 }
-
-// selectReferral picks the referral among a subset of candidates.
-// It returns the current name and namespace of the selected candidate.
-// Note that the content of the referricalCandidateSubset slice is most of the time
-// identical to the referralCandidates resmap. Still in some cases, such
-// as ClusterRoleBinding, the subset only contains the resources of a specific
-// namespace.
-func (o *nameReferenceTransformer) selectReferral(
-	oldName string,
-	referrer *resource.Resource,
-	target resid.Gvk,
-	referralCandidates resmap.ResMap,
-	referralCandidateSubset []*resource.Resource) (interface{}, interface{}, error) {
-
-	for _, res := range referralCandidateSubset {
-		id := res.OrgId()
-		if id.IsSelected(&target) && res.GetOriginalName() == oldName {
-			matches := referralCandidates.GetMatchingResourcesByOriginalId(id.Equals)
-			// If there's more than one match, there's no way
-			// to know which one to pick, so emit error.
-			if len(matches) > 1 {
-				return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf(
-					"multiple matches for %s:\n  %v",
-					id, getIds(matches))
-			}
-			// In the resource, note that it is referenced
-			// by the referrer.
-			res.AppendRefBy(referrer.CurId())
-			// Return transformed name of the object,
-			// complete with prefixes, hashes, etc.
-			return res.GetName(), res.GetNamespace(), nil
-		}
-	}
-
-	return oldName, nil, nil
-}
-
-// utility function to replace a simple string by the new name
-func (o *nameReferenceTransformer) getSimpleNameField(
-	oldName string,
-	referrer *resource.Resource,
-	target resid.Gvk,
-	referralCandidates resmap.ResMap,
-	referralCandidateSubset []*resource.Resource) (interface{}, error) {
-
-	newName, _, err := o.selectReferral(oldName, referrer, target,
-		referralCandidates, referralCandidateSubset)
-
-	return newName, err
-}
-
-// utility function to replace name field within a map[string]interface{}
-// and leverage the namespace field.
-func (o *nameReferenceTransformer) getNameAndNsStruct(
-	inMap map[string]interface{},
-	referrer *resource.Resource,
-	target resid.Gvk,
-	referralCandidates resmap.ResMap) (interface{}, error) {
-
-	// Example:
-	if _, ok := inMap["name"]; !ok {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-			"%#v is expected to contain a name field", inMap)
-	}
-	oldName, ok := inMap["name"].(string)
-	if !ok {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-			"%#v is expected to contain a name field of type string", oldName)
-	}
-
-	subset := referralCandidates.Resources()
-	if namespacevalue, ok := inMap["namespace"]; ok {
-		namespace := namespacevalue.(string)
-		bynamespace := referralCandidates.GroupedByOriginalNamespace()
-		if _, ok := bynamespace[namespace]; !ok {
-			return inMap, nil
-		}
-		subset = bynamespace[namespace]
-	}
-
-	newname, newnamespace, err := o.selectReferral(oldName, referrer, target,
-		referralCandidates, subset)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	if (newname == oldName) && (newnamespace == nil) {
-		// no candidate found.
-		return inMap, nil
-	}
-
-	inMap["name"] = newname
-	if newnamespace != "" {
-		// We don't want value "" to replace value "default" since
-		// the empty string is handled as a wild card here not default namespace
-		// by kubernetes.
-		inMap["namespace"] = newnamespace
-	}
-	return inMap, nil
-
-}
-
-func (o *nameReferenceTransformer) getNewNameFunc(
-	referrer *resource.Resource,
-	target resid.Gvk,
-	referralCandidates resmap.ResMap) func(in interface{}) (interface{}, error) {
-	return func(in interface{}) (interface{}, error) {
-		switch thing := in.(type) {
-		case string:
-			return o.getSimpleNameField(thing, referrer, target,
-				referralCandidates, referralCandidates.Resources())
-		case map[string]interface{}:
-			// Kind: ValidatingWebhookConfiguration
-			// FieldSpec is webhooks/clientConfig/service
-			return o.getNameAndNsStruct(thing, referrer, target,
-				referralCandidates)
-		case []interface{}:
-			for idx, item := range thing {
-				switch value := item.(type) {
-				case string:
-					// Kind: Role/ClusterRole
-					// FieldSpec is rules.resourceNames
-					newName, err := o.getSimpleNameField(value, referrer, target,
-						referralCandidates, referralCandidates.Resources())
-					if err != nil {
-						return nil, err
-					}
-					thing[idx] = newName
-				case map[string]interface{}:
-					// Kind: RoleBinding/ClusterRoleBinding
-					// FieldSpec is subjects
-					// Note: The corresponding fieldSpec had been changed from
-					// from path: subjects/name to just path: subjects. This is
-					// what get mutatefield to request the mapping of the whole
-					// map containing namespace and name instead of just a simple
-					// string field containing the name
-					newMap, err := o.getNameAndNsStruct(value, referrer, target,
-						referralCandidates)
-					if err != nil {
-						return nil, err
-					}
-					thing[idx] = newMap
-				default:
-					return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-						"%#v is expected to be either a []string or a []map[string]interface{}", in)
-				}
-			}
-			return in, nil
-		default:
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-				"%#v is expected to be either a string or a []interface{}", in)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func getIds(rs []*resource.Resource) []string {
-	var result []string
-	for _, r := range rs {
-		result = append(result, r.CurId().String()+"\n")
-	}
-	return result
-}

api/internal/accumulator/namereferencetransformer_test.go

@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ func TestNameReferenceUnhappyRun(t *testing.T) {
 						},
 					},
 				}).ResMap(),
-			expectedErr: "is expected to contain a name field"},
+			expectedErr: "cannot find field 'name' in node"},
 	}
 
 	nrt := newNameReferenceTransformer(builtinconfig.MakeDefaultConfig().NameReference)

api/internal/accumulator/refvartransformer.go

@@ -4,13 +4,12 @@
 package accumulator
 
 import (
-	"fmt"
-
 	expansion2 "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/accumulator/expansion"
 
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filters/refvar"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resmap"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/transform"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/filtersutil"
 )
 
 type refVarTransformer struct {
@@ -31,59 +30,6 @@ func newRefVarTransformer(
 	}
 }
 
-// replaceVars accepts as 'in' a string, or string array, which can have
-// embedded instances of $VAR style variables, e.g. a container command string.
-// The function returns the string with the variables expanded to their final
-// values.
-func (rv *refVarTransformer) replaceVars(in interface{}) (interface{}, error) {
-	switch vt := in.(type) {
-	case []interface{}:
-		var xs []interface{}
-		for _, a := range in.([]interface{}) {
-			x, ok := a.(string)
-			if !ok {
-				return nil, fmt.Errorf("expected array of strings, found %v", in)
-			}
-			xs = append(xs, expansion2.Expand(x, rv.mappingFunc))
-		}
-		return xs, nil
-	case map[string]interface{}:
-		inMap := in.(map[string]interface{})
-		xs := make(map[string]interface{}, len(inMap))
-		for k, v := range inMap {
-			s, ok := v.(string)
-			if !ok {
-				// This field can not contain a $(VAR) since it is not
-				// of string type. For instance .spec.replicas: 3 in
-				// a Deployment object
-				xs[k] = v
-			} else {
-				// This field can potentially contains a $(VAR) since it is
-				// of string type. For instance .spec.replicas: $(REPLICAS)
-				// in a Deployment object
-				xs[k] = expansion2.Expand(s, rv.mappingFunc)
-			}
-		}
-		return xs, nil
-	case interface{}:
-		s, ok := in.(string)
-		if !ok {
-			// This field can not contain a $(VAR) since it is not of string type.
-			return in, nil
-		}
-		// This field can potentially contain a $(VAR) since it is
-		// of string type.
-		return expansion2.Expand(s, rv.mappingFunc), nil
-	// staticcheck erroneously claims that `case nil`
-	// is unreachable here, so suppressing it.
-	//nolint:staticcheck
-	case nil:
-		return nil, nil
-	default:
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("invalid type encountered %T", vt)
-	}
-}
-
 // UnusedVars returns slice of Var names that were unused
 // after a Transform run.
 func (rv *refVarTransformer) UnusedVars() []string {
@@ -104,12 +50,12 @@ func (rv *refVarTransformer) Transform(m resmap.ResMap) error {
 		rv.replacementCounts, rv.varMap)
 	for _, res := range m.Resources() {
 		for _, fieldSpec := range rv.fieldSpecs {
-			if res.OrgId().IsSelected(&fieldSpec.Gvk) {
+			err := filtersutil.ApplyToJSON(refvar.Filter{
-				if err := transform.MutateField(
+				MappingFunc: rv.mappingFunc,
-					res.Map(), fieldSpec.PathSlice(),
+				FieldSpec:   fieldSpec,
-					false, rv.replaceVars); err != nil {
+			}, res)
-					return err
+			if err != nil {
-				}
+				return err
 			}
 		}
 	}

api/internal/accumulator/refvartransformer_test.go

@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ func TestRefVarTransformer(t *testing.T) {
 					{Gvk: resid.Gvk{Version: "v1", Kind: "ConfigMap"}, Path: "data/map"},
 					{Gvk: resid.Gvk{Version: "v1", Kind: "ConfigMap"}, Path: "data/slice"},
 					{Gvk: resid.Gvk{Version: "v1", Kind: "ConfigMap"}, Path: "data/interface"},
-					{Gvk: resid.Gvk{Version: "v1", Kind: "ConfigMap"}, Path: "data/nil"},
 					{Gvk: resid.Gvk{Version: "v1", Kind: "ConfigMap"}, Path: "data/num"},
 				},
 				res: resmaptest_test.NewRmBuilder(
@@ -63,7 +62,7 @@ func TestRefVarTransformer(t *testing.T) {
 								"item4": "$(BAZ)+$(BAZ)",
 								"item5": "$(BOO)",
 								"item6": "if $(BOO)",
-								"item7": 2019,
+								"item7": int64(2019),
 							},
 							"slice": []interface{}{
 								"$(FOO)",
@@ -74,8 +73,7 @@ func TestRefVarTransformer(t *testing.T) {
 								"if $(BOO)",
 							},
 							"interface": "$(FOO)",
-							"nil":       nil,
+							"num":       int64(2019),
-							"num":       2019,
 						}}).ResMap(),
 			},
 			expected: expected{
@@ -95,7 +93,7 @@ func TestRefVarTransformer(t *testing.T) {
 								"item4": "5+5",
 								"item5": true,
 								"item6": "if true",
-								"item7": 2019,
+								"item7": int64(2019),
 							},
 							"slice": []interface{}{
 								"replacementForFoo",
@@ -106,8 +104,7 @@ func TestRefVarTransformer(t *testing.T) {
 								"if true",
 							},
 							"interface": "replacementForFoo",
-							"nil":       nil,
+							"num":       int64(2019),
-							"num":       2019,
 						}}).ResMap(),
 				unused: []string{"BAR"},
 			},
@@ -131,7 +128,41 @@ func TestRefVarTransformer(t *testing.T) {
 							"slice": []interface{}{5}, // noticeably *not* a []string
 						}}).ResMap(),
 			},
-			errMessage: "expected array of strings, found [5]",
+			errMessage: `obj '{"apiVersion": "v1", "data": {"slice": [5]}, "kind": "ConfigMap", "metadata": {"name": "cm1"}}
+' at path 'data/slice': invalid value type expect a string`,
+		},
+		{
+			description: "var replacement in nil",
+			given: given{
+				varMap: map[string]interface{}{},
+				fs: []types.FieldSpec{
+					{Gvk: resid.Gvk{Version: "v1", Kind: "ConfigMap"}, Path: "data/nil"},
+				},
+				res: resmaptest_test.NewRmBuilder(
+					t, resource.NewFactory(kunstruct.NewKunstructuredFactoryImpl())).
+					Add(map[string]interface{}{
+						"apiVersion": "v1",
+						"kind":       "ConfigMap",
+						"metadata": map[string]interface{}{
+							"name": "cm1",
+						},
+						"data": map[string]interface{}{
+							"nil": nil, // noticeably *not* a []string
+						}}).ResMap(),
+			},
+			expected: expected{
+				res: resmaptest_test.NewRmBuilder(
+					t, resource.NewFactory(kunstruct.NewKunstructuredFactoryImpl())).
+					Add(map[string]interface{}{
+						"apiVersion": "v1",
+						"kind":       "ConfigMap",
+						"metadata": map[string]interface{}{
+							"name": "cm1",
+						},
+						"data": map[string]interface{}{
+							"nil": nil, // noticeably *not* a []string
+						}}).ResMap(),
+			},
 		},
 	}
 

api/internal/crawl/README.md

@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ overview of each component with the following sections going into more details.
 
 The overall structure is outlined in the following figure:
 ![overview](
-https://sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/internal/tools/pictures/sys_arch.png)
+https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/blob/master/api/internal/crawl/pictures/token_config.png)
 
 #### Crawler
 The leftmost component consists of a crawler with an http cache of GitHub

api/internal/crawl/cmd/crawler/Dockerfile

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM golang:1.11 AS build
+FROM golang:1.14 AS build
 
 ARG GO111MODULE=on
 

api/internal/crawl/cmd/crawler/crawler.go

@@ -159,40 +159,31 @@ func main() {
 		}
 	}
 
-	seedDocs := make(crawler.CrawlSeed, 0)
+	query := []byte(`{ "query":{ "match_all":{} } }`)
-
+	it := idx.IterateQuery(query, 10000, 60*time.Second)
-	// get all the documents in the index
-	getSeedDocsFunc := func() {
-		query := []byte(`{ "query":{ "match_all":{} } }`)
-		it := idx.IterateQuery(query, 10000, 60*time.Second)
-		for it.Next() {
-			for _, hit := range it.Value().Hits.Hits {
-				seedDocs = append(seedDocs, hit.Document.Document.Copy())
-			}
-		}
-		if err := it.Err(); err != nil {
-			log.Fatalf("getSeedDocsFunc Error iterating: %v\n", err)
-		}
-	}
 
 	switch mode {
 	case CrawlIndexAndGithub:
-		getSeedDocsFunc()
 		crawlers := []crawler.Crawler{ghCrawlerConstructor("", "")}
-		crawler.CrawlFromSeed(ctx, seedDocs, crawlers, docConverter, indexFunc, seen)
+		crawler.CrawlFromSeedIterator(ctx, it, crawlers, docConverter, indexFunc, seen)
 		crawler.CrawlGithub(ctx, crawlers, docConverter, indexFunc, seen)
 	case CrawlIndex:
-		getSeedDocsFunc()
 		crawlers := []crawler.Crawler{ghCrawlerConstructor("", "")}
-		crawler.CrawlFromSeed(ctx, seedDocs, crawlers, docConverter, indexFunc, seen)
+		crawler.CrawlFromSeedIterator(ctx, it, crawlers, docConverter, indexFunc, seen)
 	case CrawlGithub:
 		crawlers := []crawler.Crawler{ghCrawlerConstructor("", "")}
 		// add all the documents in the index into seen.
 		// this greatly reduces the time overhead of CrawlGithub.
-		getSeedDocsFunc()
+		for it.Next() {
-		for _, d := range seedDocs {
+			for _, hit := range it.Value().Hits.Hits {
-			seen[d.ID()] = d.FileType
+				d := hit.Document.Document
+				seen.Set(d.ID(), d.FileType)
+			}
 		}
+		if err := it.Err(); err != nil {
+			log.Fatalf("Error iterating the index: %v\n", err)
+		}
+
 		crawler.CrawlGithub(ctx, crawlers, docConverter, indexFunc, seen)
 	case CrawlUser:
 		if *githubUserPtr == "" {

api/internal/crawl/config/elastic/service.yaml

@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Service
-metadata:
-  name: elasticsearch
-spec:
-  selector:
-    custom-resource: v1alpha1.ESCluster
-    custom-resource-name: esbasic
-    custom-resource-namespace: default
-    es/data: "true"
-    using: escluster.Cluster
-  ports:
-  - protocol: "TCP"
-    port: 9200
-  type: LoadBalancer
-  loadBalancerIP: ""

api/internal/crawl/crawler/crawler.go

@@ -213,21 +213,36 @@ func doCrawl(ctx context.Context, docsPtr *CrawlSeed, crawlers []Crawler, conv C
 	logger.Printf("\t%d documents cannot be converted but still were inserted or updated in the index\n", convErrCount)
 }
 
+// CrawlFromSeedIterator iterates all the documents in the index and call CrawlFromSeed for each document.
+func CrawlFromSeedIterator(ctx context.Context, it *index.KustomizeIterator, crawlers []Crawler,
+	conv Converter, indx IndexFunc, seen utils.SeenMap) {
+	docCount := 0
+	for it.Next() {
+		for _, hit := range it.Value().Hits.Hits {
+			docCount++
+			logger.Printf("updating document %d from seed\n", docCount)
+
+			singleSeed := CrawlSeed{&(hit.Document.Document)}
+			CrawlFromSeed(ctx, singleSeed, crawlers, conv, indx, seen)
+		}
+	}
+	if err := it.Err(); err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Error iterating the index: %v\n", err)
+	}
+}
+
 // CrawlFromSeed updates all the documents in seed, and crawls all the new
 // documents referred in the seed.
 func CrawlFromSeed(ctx context.Context, seed CrawlSeed, crawlers []Crawler,
 	conv Converter, indx IndexFunc, seen utils.SeenMap) {
 
-	// stack tracks the documents directly referred in other documents.
+	// stack tracks the documents directly referred in the seed.
 	stack := make(CrawlSeed, 0)
 
-	// Exploit seed to update bulk of corpus.
-	logger.Printf("updating %d documents from seed\n", len(seed))
 	// each unique document in seed will be crawled once.
 	doCrawl(ctx, &seed, crawlers, conv, indx, seen, &stack, true, false)
 
-	// Traverse any new documents added while updating corpus.
+	logger.Printf("crawling %d new documents referred by doc\n", len(stack))
-	logger.Printf("crawling %d new documents found in the seed\n", len(stack))
 	// While crawling each document in stack, the documents directly referred in the document
 	// will be added into stack.
 	// After this statement is done, stack will become empty.
@@ -297,8 +312,6 @@ func CrawlGithubRunner(ctx context.Context, output chan<- CrawledDocument,
 // CrawlGithub crawls all the kustomization files on Github.
 func CrawlGithub(ctx context.Context, crawlers []Crawler, conv Converter,
 	indx IndexFunc, seen utils.SeenMap) {
-	// stack tracks the documents directly referred in other documents.
-	stack := make(CrawlSeed, 0)
 
 	// ch is channel where all the crawlers sends the crawled documents to.
 	ch := make(chan CrawledDocument, 1<<10)
@@ -324,7 +337,20 @@ func CrawlGithub(ctx context.Context, crawlers []Crawler, conv Converter,
 					"%v could not match any crawler", cdoc))
 				continue
 			}
+
+			// stack tracks the documents directly referred in the document.
+			stack := make(CrawlSeed, 0)
+
 			addBranches(cdoc, match, indx, seen, &stack)
+
+			if len(stack) > 0 {
+				// here the documents referred in a kustomization file are crawled separately,
+				// to avoid accumulating all the referred documents into a single gigantic
+				// mem-inentive stack.
+				logger.Printf("crawling the %d new documents referred in doc %d",
+					len(stack), docCount)
+				doCrawl(ctx, &stack, crawlers, conv, indx, seen, &stack, false, true)
+			}
 		}
 	}()
 
@@ -336,9 +362,4 @@ func CrawlGithub(ctx context.Context, crawlers []Crawler, conv Converter,
 	}
 	close(ch)
 	wg.Wait()
-
-	// Handle deps of newly discovered documents.
-	logger.Printf("crawling the %d new documents referred by other documents",
-		len(stack))
-	doCrawl(ctx, &stack, crawlers, conv, indx, seen, &stack, false, true)
 }

api/internal/crawl/crawler/github/crawler.go

@@ -82,14 +82,15 @@ func (gc githubCrawler) Crawl(ctx context.Context,
 
 	ranges := []RangeWithin{
 		RangeWithin{
-		start: uint64(0),
+			start: uint64(0),
-		end:   githubMaxFileSize,
+			end:   githubMaxFileSize,
-	},
+		},
 	}
 
 	errs := make(multiError, 0)
 	for len(ranges) > 0 {
-		tailRange := ranges[len(ranges) - 1]
+		logger.Printf("Current ranges: %v (len: %d)\n", ranges, len(ranges))
+		tailRange := ranges[len(ranges)-1]
 		ranges = ranges[:(len(ranges) - 1)]
 		reProcessQueryRanges, err := gc.CrawlSingleRange(ctx, output, seen, tailRange.start, tailRange.end)
 		if err != nil {
@@ -151,7 +152,15 @@ func (gc githubCrawler) CrawlSingleRange(ctx context.Context,
 		}
 		queryResult.Add(rangeResult)
 		if reProcessQuery {
-			reProcessQueryRanges = append(reProcessQueryRanges, RangeSizes(query))
+			// if the size of a range is 0, such as [245, 245], and reProcessQuery is true,
+			// it means that there are more than 1000 results for the query range.
+			// Reprocessing the query range will not help because the GitHub Search API
+			// only provides up to 1,000 results for each search.
+			if RangeSizes(query).Size() == 0 {
+				logger.Printf("range size is 0 includes more than 1000 results: %s", query)
+			} else {
+				reProcessQueryRanges = append(reProcessQueryRanges, RangeSizes(query))
+			}
 		}
 	}
 

api/internal/crawl/crawler/github/queries.go

@@ -225,3 +225,7 @@ type RangeWithin struct {
 func (r RangeWithin) RangeString() string {
 	return fmt.Sprintf("%d..%d", r.start, r.end)
 }
+
+func (r RangeWithin) Size() uint64 {
+	return r.end - r.start
+}

api/internal/crawl/go.mod

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 module sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/crawl
 
-go 1.13
+go 1.14
 
 require (
 	github.com/elastic/go-elasticsearch/v6 v6.8.5

api/internal/crawl/go.sum

@@ -16,8 +16,10 @@ github.com/OpenPeeDeeP/depguard v1.0.1/go.mod h1:xsIw86fROiiwelg+jB2uM9PiKihMMmU
 github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery v1.5.0/go.mod h1:qD2PgZ9lccMbQlc7eEOjaeRlFQON7xY8kdmcsrnKqMg=
 github.com/PuerkitoBio/purell v1.0.0/go.mod h1:c11w/QuzBsJSee3cPx9rAFu61PvFxuPbtSwDGJws/X0=
 github.com/PuerkitoBio/purell v1.1.0/go.mod h1:c11w/QuzBsJSee3cPx9rAFu61PvFxuPbtSwDGJws/X0=
+github.com/PuerkitoBio/purell v1.1.1 h1:WEQqlqaGbrPkxLJWfBwQmfEAE1Z7ONdDLqrN38tNFfI=
 github.com/PuerkitoBio/purell v1.1.1/go.mod h1:c11w/QuzBsJSee3cPx9rAFu61PvFxuPbtSwDGJws/X0=
 github.com/PuerkitoBio/urlesc v0.0.0-20160726150825-5bd2802263f2/go.mod h1:uGdkoq3SwY9Y+13GIhn11/XLaGBb4BfwItxLd5jeuXE=
+github.com/PuerkitoBio/urlesc v0.0.0-20170810143723-de5bf2ad4578 h1:d+Bc7a5rLufV/sSk/8dngufqelfh6jnri85riMAaF/M=
 github.com/PuerkitoBio/urlesc v0.0.0-20170810143723-de5bf2ad4578/go.mod h1:uGdkoq3SwY9Y+13GIhn11/XLaGBb4BfwItxLd5jeuXE=
 github.com/StackExchange/wmi v0.0.0-20180116203802-5d049714c4a6/go.mod h1:3eOhrUMpNV+6aFIbp5/iudMxNCF27Vw2OZgy4xEx0Fg=
 github.com/agnivade/levenshtein v1.0.1/go.mod h1:CURSv5d9Uaml+FovSIICkLbAUZ9S4RqaHDIsdSBg7lM=
@@ -72,6 +74,7 @@ github.com/ghodss/yaml v1.0.0/go.mod h1:4dBDuWmgqj2HViK6kFavaiC9ZROes6MMH2rRYeME
 github.com/globalsign/mgo v0.0.0-20180905125535-1ca0a4f7cbcb/go.mod h1:xkRDCp4j0OGD1HRkm4kmhM+pmpv3AKq5SU7GMg4oO/Q=
 github.com/globalsign/mgo v0.0.0-20181015135952-eeefdecb41b8/go.mod h1:xkRDCp4j0OGD1HRkm4kmhM+pmpv3AKq5SU7GMg4oO/Q=
 github.com/go-critic/go-critic v0.3.5-0.20190904082202-d79a9f0c64db/go.mod h1:+sE8vrLDS2M0pZkBk0wy6+nLdKexVDrl/jBqQOTDThA=
+github.com/go-errors/errors v1.0.1 h1:LUHzmkK3GUKUrL/1gfBUxAHzcev3apQlezX/+O7ma6w=
 github.com/go-errors/errors v1.0.1/go.mod h1:f4zRHt4oKfwPJE5k8C9vpYG+aDHdBFUsgrm6/TyX73Q=
 github.com/go-kit/kit v0.8.0/go.mod h1:xBxKIO96dXMWWy0MnWVtmwkA9/13aqxPnvrjFYMA2as=
 github.com/go-lintpack/lintpack v0.5.2/go.mod h1:NwZuYi2nUHho8XEIZ6SIxihrnPoqBTDqfpXvXAN0sXM=
@@ -91,11 +94,13 @@ github.com/go-openapi/jsonpointer v0.0.0-20160704185906-46af16f9f7b1/go.mod h1:+
 github.com/go-openapi/jsonpointer v0.17.0/go.mod h1:cOnomiV+CVVwFLk0A/MExoFMjwdsUdVpsRhURCKh+3M=
 github.com/go-openapi/jsonpointer v0.18.0/go.mod h1:cOnomiV+CVVwFLk0A/MExoFMjwdsUdVpsRhURCKh+3M=
 github.com/go-openapi/jsonpointer v0.19.2/go.mod h1:3akKfEdA7DF1sugOqz1dVQHBcuDBPKZGEoHC/NkiQRg=
+github.com/go-openapi/jsonpointer v0.19.3 h1:gihV7YNZK1iK6Tgwwsxo2rJbD1GTbdm72325Bq8FI3w=
 github.com/go-openapi/jsonpointer v0.19.3/go.mod h1:Pl9vOtqEWErmShwVjC8pYs9cog34VGT37dQOVbmoatg=
 github.com/go-openapi/jsonreference v0.0.0-20160704190145-13c6e3589ad9/go.mod h1:W3Z9FmVs9qj+KR4zFKmDPGiLdk1D9Rlm7cyMvf57TTg=
 github.com/go-openapi/jsonreference v0.17.0/go.mod h1:g4xxGn04lDIRh0GJb5QlpE3HfopLOL6uZrK/VgnsK9I=
 github.com/go-openapi/jsonreference v0.18.0/go.mod h1:g4xxGn04lDIRh0GJb5QlpE3HfopLOL6uZrK/VgnsK9I=
 github.com/go-openapi/jsonreference v0.19.2/go.mod h1:jMjeRr2HHw6nAVajTXJ4eiUwohSTlpa0o73RUL1owJc=
+github.com/go-openapi/jsonreference v0.19.3 h1:5cxNfTy0UVC3X8JL5ymxzyoUZmo8iZb+jeTWn7tUa8o=
 github.com/go-openapi/jsonreference v0.19.3/go.mod h1:rjx6GuL8TTa9VaixXglHmQmIL98+wF9xc8zWvFonSJ8=
 github.com/go-openapi/loads v0.17.0/go.mod h1:72tmFy5wsWx89uEVddd0RjRWPZm92WRLhf7AC+0+OOU=
 github.com/go-openapi/loads v0.18.0/go.mod h1:72tmFy5wsWx89uEVddd0RjRWPZm92WRLhf7AC+0+OOU=
@@ -110,6 +115,7 @@ github.com/go-openapi/spec v0.17.0/go.mod h1:XkF/MOi14NmjsfZ8VtAKf8pIlbZzyoTvZsd
 github.com/go-openapi/spec v0.18.0/go.mod h1:XkF/MOi14NmjsfZ8VtAKf8pIlbZzyoTvZsdfssdxcBI=
 github.com/go-openapi/spec v0.19.2/go.mod h1:sCxk3jxKgioEJikev4fgkNmwS+3kuYdJtcsZsD5zxMY=
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+github.com/go-openapi/spec v0.19.5 h1:Xm0Ao53uqnk9QE/LlYV5DEU09UAgpliA85QoT9LzqPw=
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@@ -120,6 +126,7 @@ github.com/go-openapi/swag v0.0.0-20160704191624-1d0bd113de87/go.mod h1:DXUve3Dp
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+github.com/go-openapi/swag v0.19.5 h1:lTz6Ys4CmqqCQmZPBlbQENR1/GucA2bzYTE12Pw4tFY=
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@@ -242,6 +249,7 @@ github.com/mailru/easyjson v0.0.0-20180823135443-60711f1a8329/go.mod h1:C1wdFJiN
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@@ -263,6 +271,8 @@ github.com/modern-go/reflect2 v0.0.0-20180701023420-4b7aa43c6742/go.mod h1:bx2lN
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+github.com/monochromegane/go-gitignore v0.0.0-20200626010858-205db1a8cc00 h1:n6/2gBQ3RWajuToeY6ZtZTIKv2v7ThUy5KKusIT0yc0=
+github.com/monochromegane/go-gitignore v0.0.0-20200626010858-205db1a8cc00/go.mod h1:Pm3mSP3c5uWn86xMLZ5Sa7JB9GsEZySvHYXCTK4E9q4=
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@@ -330,6 +340,7 @@ github.com/spf13/viper v1.3.2/go.mod h1:ZiWeW+zYFKm7srdB9IoDzzZXaJaI5eL9QjNiN/DM
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 github.com/stretchr/objx v0.1.1/go.mod h1:HFkY916IF+rwdDfMAkV7OtwuqBVzrE8GR6GFx+wExME=
+github.com/stretchr/objx v0.2.0 h1:Hbg2NidpLE8veEBkEZTL3CvlkUIVzuU9jDplZO54c48=
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@@ -353,6 +364,7 @@ github.com/valyala/quicktemplate v1.2.0/go.mod h1:EH+4AkTd43SvgIbQHYu59/cJyxDoOV
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+github.com/xlab/treeprint v0.0.0-20181112141820-a009c3971eca h1:1CFlNzQhALwjS9mBAUkycX616GzgsuYUOCHA5+HSlXI=
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@@ -404,8 +416,6 @@ golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20190827160401-ba9fcec4b297/go.mod h1:z5CRVTTTmAJ677TzLL
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-golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20200226121028-0de0cce0169b h1:0mm1VjtFUOIlE1SbDlwjYaDxZVDP2S5ou6y0gSgXHu8=
-golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20200226121028-0de0cce0169b/go.mod h1:z5CRVTTTmAJ677TzLLGU+0bjPO0LkuOLi4/5GtJWs/s=
 golang.org/x/oauth2 v0.0.0-20180821212333-d2e6202438be/go.mod h1:N/0e6XlmueqKjAGxoOufVs8QHGRruUQn6yWY3a++T0U=
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@@ -462,6 +472,7 @@ golang.org/x/tools v0.0.0-20190719005602-e377ae9d6386/go.mod h1:jcCCGcm9btYwXyDq
 golang.org/x/tools v0.0.0-20190910044552-dd2b5c81c578/go.mod h1:b+2E5dAYhXwXZwtnZ6UAqBI28+e2cm9otk0dWdXHAEo=
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+golang.org/x/tools v0.0.0-20191119224855-298f0cb1881e/go.mod h1:b+2E5dAYhXwXZwtnZ6UAqBI28+e2cm9otk0dWdXHAEo=
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 google.golang.org/api v0.4.0/go.mod h1:8k5glujaEP+g9n7WNsDg8QP6cUVNI86fCNMcbazEtwE=
 google.golang.org/appengine v1.1.0/go.mod h1:EbEs0AVv82hx2wNQdGPgUI5lhzA/G0D9YwlJXL52JkM=
@@ -490,10 +501,12 @@ gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.2.1/go.mod h1:hI93XBmqTisBFMUTm0b8Fm+jr3Dg1NNxqwp+5A1VGuI=
 gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.2.2/go.mod h1:hI93XBmqTisBFMUTm0b8Fm+jr3Dg1NNxqwp+5A1VGuI=
 gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.2.4 h1:/eiJrUcujPVeJ3xlSWaiNi3uSVmDGBK1pDHUHAnao1I=
 gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.2.4/go.mod h1:hI93XBmqTisBFMUTm0b8Fm+jr3Dg1NNxqwp+5A1VGuI=
-gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.2.7/go.mod h1:hI93XBmqTisBFMUTm0b8Fm+jr3Dg1NNxqwp+5A1VGuI=
 gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.2.8 h1:obN1ZagJSUGI0Ek/LBmuj4SNLPfIny3KsKFopxRdj10=
 gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.2.8/go.mod h1:hI93XBmqTisBFMUTm0b8Fm+jr3Dg1NNxqwp+5A1VGuI=
-gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.0-20191120175047-4206685974f2/go.mod h1:K4uyk7z7BCEPqu6E+C64Yfv1cQ7kz7rIZviUmN+EgEM=
+gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.3.0 h1:clyUAQHOM3G0M3f5vQj7LuJrETvjVot3Z5el9nffUtU=
+gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.3.0/go.mod h1:hI93XBmqTisBFMUTm0b8Fm+jr3Dg1NNxqwp+5A1VGuI=
+gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.0-20200121175148-a6ecf24a6d71 h1:Xe2gvTZUJpsvOWUnvmL/tmhVBZUmHSvLbMjRj6NUUKo=
+gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.0-20200121175148-a6ecf24a6d71/go.mod h1:K4uyk7z7BCEPqu6E+C64Yfv1cQ7kz7rIZviUmN+EgEM=
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@@ -514,7 +527,8 @@ k8s.io/utils v0.0.0-20191114184206-e782cd3c129f/go.mod h1:sZAwmy6armz5eXlNoLmJcl
 mvdan.cc/interfacer v0.0.0-20180901003855-c20040233aed/go.mod h1:Xkxe497xwlCKkIaQYRfC7CSLworTXY9RMqwhhCm+8Nc=
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-sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml v0.1.11/go.mod h1:72/rLkSi+L/pHM1oCjwrf3ClU+tH5kZQvvdLSqIHwWU=
+sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml v0.9.1 h1:T7aNUraSioQp0NHJZtYjIhL/q8mqRzCiHcAKdvo09go=
+sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml v0.9.1/go.mod h1:UTm64bSWVdBUA8EQoYCxVOaBQxUdIOr5LKWxA4GNbkw=
 sigs.k8s.io/structured-merge-diff v0.0.0-20190525122527-15d366b2352e/go.mod h1:wWxsB5ozmmv/SG7nM11ayaAW51xMvak/t1r0CSlcokI=
 sigs.k8s.io/yaml v1.1.0 h1:4A07+ZFc2wgJwo8YNlQpr1rVlgUDlxXHhPJciaPY5gs=
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api/internal/crawl/utils/utils.go

@@ -1,21 +1,37 @@
 package utils
 
-type SeenMap map[string]string
+import "sync"
 
+type SeenMap struct {
+	data map[string]string
+	lock sync.RWMutex
+}
+
+// TODO: add lock to avoid race condition
 func (seen SeenMap) Seen(item string) bool {
-	_, ok := seen[item]
+	seen.lock.RLock()
+	_, ok := seen.data[item]
+	seen.lock.RUnlock()
 	return ok
 }
 
 func (seen SeenMap) Set(k, v string) {
-	seen[k] = v
+	seen.lock.Lock()
+	seen.data[k] = v
+	seen.lock.Unlock()
 }
 
 // The caller should make sure that key is in the map.
 func (seen SeenMap) Value(k string) string {
-	return seen[k]
+	seen.lock.RLock()
+	v := seen.data[k]
+	seen.lock.RUnlock()
+	return v
 }
 
 func NewSeenMap() SeenMap {
-	return make(map[string]string)
+	return SeenMap{
+		data: make(map[string]string),
+		lock: sync.RWMutex{},
+	}
 }

api/internal/git/cloner.go

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 package git
 
 import (
-	"bytes"
 	"log"
 	"os/exec"
 
@@ -28,40 +27,57 @@ func ClonerUsingGitExec(repoSpec *RepoSpec) error {
 		return err
 	}
 
-	if repoSpec.Ref == "" {
-		repoSpec.Ref = "master"
-	}
 	cmd := exec.Command(
 		gitProgram,
 		"clone",
 		"--depth=1",
 		repoSpec.CloneSpec(),
-		"-b",
-		repoSpec.Ref,
 		repoSpec.Dir.String())
-	var out bytes.Buffer
+	out, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()
-	cmd.Stdout = &out
-	cmd.Stderr = &out
-	err = cmd.Run()
 	if err != nil {
-		log.Printf("Error cloning git repo: %s", out.String())
+		log.Printf("Error cloning git repo: %s", out)
 		return errors.Wrapf(
 			err,
 			"trouble cloning git repo %v in %s",
 			repoSpec.CloneSpec(), repoSpec.Dir.String())
 	}
 
+	if repoSpec.Ref != "" {
+		cmd = exec.Command(
+			gitProgram,
+			"fetch",
+			"--depth=1",
+			"origin",
+			repoSpec.Ref)
+		cmd.Dir = repoSpec.Dir.String()
+		out, err = cmd.CombinedOutput()
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Printf("Error fetching ref: %s", out)
+			return errors.Wrapf(err, "trouble fetching %s", repoSpec.Ref)
+		}
+
+		cmd = exec.Command(
+			gitProgram,
+			"checkout",
+			"FETCH_HEAD")
+		cmd.Dir = repoSpec.Dir.String()
+		out, err = cmd.CombinedOutput()
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Printf("Error checking out ref: %s", out)
+			return errors.Wrapf(err, "trouble checking out %s", repoSpec.Ref)
+		}
+	}
+
 	cmd = exec.Command(
 		gitProgram,
 		"submodule",
 		"update",
 		"--init",
 		"--recursive")
-	cmd.Stdout = &out
-	cmd.Stderr = &out
 	cmd.Dir = repoSpec.Dir.String()
-	err = cmd.Run()
+	out, err = cmd.CombinedOutput()
 	if err != nil {
+		log.Printf("Error fetching submodules: %s", out)
 		return errors.Wrapf(err, "trouble fetching submodules for %s", repoSpec.CloneSpec())
 	}
 

api/internal/k8sdeps/merge/merginator.go

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // Copyright 2019 The Kubernetes Authors.
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
-package patch
+package merge
 
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
@@ -20,18 +20,20 @@ import (
 
 type conflictDetector interface {
 	hasConflict(patch1, patch2 *resource.Resource) (bool, error)
-	findConflict(conflictingPatchIdx int, patches []*resource.Resource) (*resource.Resource, error)
+	findConflict(
+		conflictingPatchIdx int,
+		patches []*resource.Resource) (*resource.Resource, error)
 	mergePatches(patch1, patch2 *resource.Resource) (*resource.Resource, error)
 }
 
 type jsonMergePatch struct {
-	rf *resource.Factory
+	resourceFactory *resource.Factory
 }
 
 var _ conflictDetector = &jsonMergePatch{}
 
 func newJMPConflictDetector(rf *resource.Factory) conflictDetector {
-	return &jsonMergePatch{rf: rf}
+	return &jsonMergePatch{resourceFactory: rf}
 }
 
 func (jmp *jsonMergePatch) hasConflict(
@@ -40,7 +42,8 @@ func (jmp *jsonMergePatch) hasConflict(
 }
 
 func (jmp *jsonMergePatch) findConflict(
-	conflictingPatchIdx int, patches []*resource.Resource) (*resource.Resource, error) {
+	conflictingPatchIdx int,
+	patches []*resource.Resource) (*resource.Resource, error) {
 	for i, patch := range patches {
 		if i == conflictingPatchIdx {
 			continue
@@ -77,7 +80,7 @@ func (jmp *jsonMergePatch) mergePatches(
 	}
 	mergedMap := make(map[string]interface{})
 	err = json.Unmarshal(mergedBytes, &mergedMap)
-	return jmp.rf.FromMap(mergedMap), err
+	return jmp.resourceFactory.FromMap(mergedMap), err
 }
 
 type strategicMergePatch struct {
@@ -94,13 +97,15 @@ func newSMPConflictDetector(
 	return &strategicMergePatch{lookupPatchMeta: lookupPatchMeta, rf: rf}, err
 }
 
-func (smp *strategicMergePatch) hasConflict(p1, p2 *resource.Resource) (bool, error) {
+func (smp *strategicMergePatch) hasConflict(
+	p1, p2 *resource.Resource) (bool, error) {
 	return strategicpatch.MergingMapsHaveConflicts(
 		p1.Map(), p2.Map(), smp.lookupPatchMeta)
 }
 
 func (smp *strategicMergePatch) findConflict(
-	conflictingPatchIdx int, patches []*resource.Resource) (*resource.Resource, error) {
+	conflictingPatchIdx int,
+	patches []*resource.Resource) (*resource.Resource, error) {
 	for i, patch := range patches {
 		if i == conflictingPatchIdx {
 			continue
@@ -122,10 +127,12 @@ func (smp *strategicMergePatch) findConflict(
 	return nil, nil
 }
 
-func (smp *strategicMergePatch) mergePatches(patch1, patch2 *resource.Resource) (*resource.Resource, error) {
+func (smp *strategicMergePatch) mergePatches(
+	patch1, patch2 *resource.Resource) (*resource.Resource, error) {
 	if hasDeleteDirectiveMarker(patch2.Map()) {
 		if hasDeleteDirectiveMarker(patch1.Map()) {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("cannot merge patches both containing '$patch: delete' directives")
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf(
+				"cannot merge patches both containing '$patch: delete' directives")
 		}
 		patch1, patch2 = patch2, patch1
 	}
@@ -134,10 +141,21 @@ func (smp *strategicMergePatch) mergePatches(patch1, patch2 *resource.Resource)
 	return smp.rf.FromMap(mergeJSONMap), err
 }
 
-// MergePatches merge and index patches by OrgId.
+type merginatorImpl struct {
-// It errors out if there is conflict between patches.
+	rf *resource.Factory
-func MergePatches(patches []*resource.Resource,
+}
-	rf *resource.Factory) (resmap.ResMap, error) {
+
+// NewMerginator returns a new implementation of resmap.Merginator.
+func NewMerginator(rf *resource.Factory) resmap.Merginator {
+	return &merginatorImpl{rf: rf}
+}
+
+var _ resmap.Merginator = (*merginatorImpl)(nil)
+
+// Merge merges the incoming resources into a new resmap.ResMap.
+// Returns an error on conflict.
+func (m *merginatorImpl) Merge(
+	patches []*resource.Resource) (resmap.ResMap, error) {
 	rc := resmap.New()
 	for ix, patch := range patches {
 		id := patch.OrgId()
@@ -156,9 +174,9 @@ func MergePatches(patches []*resource.Resource,
 		}
 		var cd conflictDetector
 		if err != nil {
-			cd = newJMPConflictDetector(rf)
+			cd = newJMPConflictDetector(m.rf)
 		} else {
-			cd, err = newSMPConflictDetector(versionedObj, rf)
+			cd, err = newSMPConflictDetector(versionedObj, m.rf)
 			if err != nil {
 				return nil, err
 			}

api/internal/k8sdeps/transformer/factory.go

@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2019 The Kubernetes Authors.
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-// Package transformer provides transformer factory
-package transformer
-
-import (
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/k8sdeps/transformer/patch"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resmap"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resource"
-)
-
-// FactoryImpl makes patch transformer and name hash transformer
-type FactoryImpl struct{}
-
-// NewFactoryImpl makes a new factoryImpl instance
-func NewFactoryImpl() *FactoryImpl {
-	return &FactoryImpl{}
-}
-
-func (p *FactoryImpl) MergePatches(patches []*resource.Resource,
-	rf *resource.Factory) (
-	resmap.ResMap, error) {
-	return patch.MergePatches(patches, rf)
-}

api/internal/merge/merginator.go

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+// Copyright 2020 The Kubernetes Authors.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+package merge
+
+import (
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resmap"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resource"
+)
+
+// Merginator implements resmap.Merginator using kyaml libs.
+type Merginator struct {
+}
+
+var _ resmap.Merginator = (*Merginator)(nil)
+
+func NewMerginator(_ *resource.Factory) *Merginator {
+	return &Merginator{}
+}
+
+// Merge implements resmap.Merginator
+func (m Merginator) Merge(
+	resources []*resource.Resource) (resmap.ResMap, error) {
+	panic("TODO(#Merginator): implement Merge")
+}

api/internal/merge/merginator_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+// Copyright 2020 The Kubernetes Authors.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+package merge_test

api/internal/plugins/execplugin/execplugin.go

@@ -9,22 +9,18 @@ import (
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"
-	"strconv"
+	"runtime"
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/google/shlex"
 
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resid"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/plugins/utils"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resmap"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/yaml"
 )
 
 const (
-	idAnnotation        = "kustomize.config.k8s.io/id"
-	HashAnnotation      = "kustomize.config.k8s.io/needs-hash"
-	BehaviorAnnotation  = "kustomize.config.k8s.io/behavior"
 	tmpConfigFilePrefix = "kust-plugin-config-"
 )
 
@@ -55,7 +51,14 @@ func (p *ExecPlugin) ErrIfNotExecutable() error {
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	if f.Mode()&0111 == 0000 {
+	// In Windows, it is not possible to determine whether a
+	// file is executable through file mode.
+	// TODO: provide for setting the executable FileMode bit on Windows
+	// The (fs *fileStat) Mode() (m FileMode) {} function in
+	// https://golang.org/src/os/types_windows.go
+	// lacks the ability to set the FileMode executable bit in response
+	// to file data on Windows.
+	if f.Mode()&0111 == 0000 && runtime.GOOS != "windows" {
 		return fmt.Errorf("unexecutable plugin at: %s", p.path)
 	}
 	return nil
@@ -114,12 +117,12 @@ func (p *ExecPlugin) Generate() (resmap.ResMap, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	return p.UpdateResourceOptions(rm)
+	return utils.UpdateResourceOptions(rm)
 }
 
 func (p *ExecPlugin) Transform(rm resmap.ResMap) error {
 	// add ResIds as annotations to all objects so that we can add them back
-	inputRM, err := p.getResMapWithIdAnnotation(rm)
+	inputRM, err := utils.GetResMapWithIDAnnotation(rm)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
@@ -137,7 +140,7 @@ func (p *ExecPlugin) Transform(rm resmap.ResMap) error {
 	}
 
 	// update the original ResMap based on the output
-	return p.updateResMapValues(output, rm)
+	return utils.UpdateResMapValues(p.path, p.h, output, rm)
 }
 
 // invokePlugin writes plugin config to a temp file, then
@@ -184,91 +187,3 @@ func (p *ExecPlugin) getEnv() []string {
 		"KUSTOMIZE_PLUGIN_CONFIG_ROOT="+p.h.Loader().Root())
 	return env
 }
-
-// Returns a new copy of the given ResMap with the ResIds annotated in each Resource
-func (p *ExecPlugin) getResMapWithIdAnnotation(rm resmap.ResMap) (resmap.ResMap, error) {
-	inputRM := rm.DeepCopy()
-	for _, r := range inputRM.Resources() {
-		idString, err := yaml.Marshal(r.CurId())
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-		annotations := r.GetAnnotations()
-		if annotations == nil {
-			annotations = make(map[string]string)
-		}
-		annotations[idAnnotation] = string(idString)
-		r.SetAnnotations(annotations)
-	}
-	return inputRM, nil
-}
-
-// updateResMapValues updates the Resource value in the given ResMap
-// with the emitted Resource values in output.
-func (p *ExecPlugin) updateResMapValues(output []byte, rm resmap.ResMap) error {
-	outputRM, err := p.h.ResmapFactory().NewResMapFromBytes(output)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	for _, r := range outputRM.Resources() {
-		// for each emitted Resource, find the matching Resource in the original ResMap
-		// using its id
-		annotations := r.GetAnnotations()
-		idString, ok := annotations[idAnnotation]
-		if !ok {
-			return fmt.Errorf("the transformer %s should not remove annotation %s",
-				p.path, idAnnotation)
-		}
-		id := resid.ResId{}
-		err := yaml.Unmarshal([]byte(idString), &id)
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-		res, err := rm.GetByCurrentId(id)
-		if err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("unable to find unique match to %s", id.String())
-		}
-		// remove the annotation set by Kustomize to track the resource
-		delete(annotations, idAnnotation)
-		if len(annotations) == 0 {
-			annotations = nil
-		}
-		r.SetAnnotations(annotations)
-
-		// update the ResMap resource value with the transformed object
-		res.Kunstructured = r.Kunstructured
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
-// updateResourceOptions updates the generator options for each resource in the
-// given ResMap based on plugin provided annotations.
-func (p *ExecPlugin) UpdateResourceOptions(rm resmap.ResMap) (resmap.ResMap, error) {
-	for _, r := range rm.Resources() {
-		// Disable name hashing by default and require plugin to explicitly
-		// request it for each resource.
-		annotations := r.GetAnnotations()
-		behavior := annotations[BehaviorAnnotation]
-		var needsHash bool
-		if val, ok := annotations[HashAnnotation]; ok {
-			b, err := strconv.ParseBool(val)
-			if err != nil {
-				return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-					"the annotation %q contains an invalid value (%q)",
-					HashAnnotation, val)
-			}
-			needsHash = b
-		}
-		delete(annotations, HashAnnotation)
-		delete(annotations, BehaviorAnnotation)
-		if len(annotations) == 0 {
-			annotations = nil
-		}
-		r.SetAnnotations(annotations)
-		r.SetOptions(types.NewGenArgs(
-			&types.GeneratorArgs{
-				Behavior: behavior,
-				Options:  &types.GeneratorOptions{DisableNameSuffixHash: !needsHash}}))
-	}
-	return rm, nil
-}

api/internal/plugins/execplugin/execplugin_test.go

@@ -4,20 +4,21 @@
 package execplugin_test
 
 import (
-	"fmt"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"runtime"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filesys"
 	. "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/plugins/execplugin"
 	pLdr "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/plugins/loader"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/plugins/utils"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/k8sdeps/kunstruct"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/konfig"
 	fLdr "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/loader"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resmap"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resource"
 	valtest_test "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/testutils/valtest"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
 )
 
 func TestExecPluginConfig(t *testing.T) {
@@ -92,106 +93,31 @@ metadata:
 	}
 }
 
-func makeConfigMap(rf *resource.Factory, name, behavior string, hashValue *string) *resource.Resource {
+func TestExecPlugin_ErrIfNotExecutable(t *testing.T) {
-	r := rf.FromMap(map[string]interface{}{
+	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
-		"apiVersion": "v1",
+		t.Skipf("always returns nil on Windows")
-		"kind":       "ConfigMap",
-		"metadata":   map[string]interface{}{"name": name},
-	})
-	annotations := map[string]string{}
-	if behavior != "" {
-		annotations[BehaviorAnnotation] = behavior
 	}
-	if hashValue != nil {
-		annotations[HashAnnotation] = *hashValue
-	}
-	if len(annotations) > 0 {
-		r.SetAnnotations(annotations)
-	}
-	return r
-}
 
-func makeConfigMapOptions(rf *resource.Factory, name, behavior string, disableHash bool) *resource.Resource {
+	srcRoot, err := utils.DeterminePluginSrcRoot(filesys.MakeFsOnDisk())
-	return rf.FromMapAndOption(map[string]interface{}{
-		"apiVersion": "v1",
-		"kind":       "ConfigMap",
-		"metadata":   map[string]interface{}{"name": name},
-	}, &types.GeneratorArgs{
-		Behavior: behavior,
-		Options:  &types.GeneratorOptions{DisableNameSuffixHash: disableHash}})
-}
-
-func strptr(s string) *string {
-	return &s
-}
-
-func TestUpdateResourceOptions(t *testing.T) {
-	p := NewExecPlugin("")
-	if err := p.ErrIfNotExecutable(); err == nil {
-		t.Fatalf("expected unexecutable error")
-	}
-	rf := resource.NewFactory(kunstruct.NewKunstructuredFactoryImpl())
-	in := resmap.New()
-	expected := resmap.New()
-	cases := []struct {
-		behavior  string
-		needsHash bool
-		hashValue *string
-	}{
-		{hashValue: strptr("false")},
-		{hashValue: strptr("true"), needsHash: true},
-		{behavior: "replace"},
-		{behavior: "merge"},
-		{behavior: "create"},
-		{behavior: "nonsense"},
-		{behavior: "merge", hashValue: strptr("false")},
-		{behavior: "merge", hashValue: strptr("true"), needsHash: true},
-	}
-	for i, c := range cases {
-		name := fmt.Sprintf("test%d", i)
-		in.Append(makeConfigMap(rf, name, c.behavior, c.hashValue))
-		expected.Append(makeConfigMapOptions(rf, name, c.behavior, !c.needsHash))
-	}
-	actual, err := p.UpdateResourceOptions(in)
 	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %v", err.Error())
+		t.Error(err)
 	}
-	for i, a := range expected.Resources() {
-		b := actual.GetByIndex(i)
-		if b == nil {
-			t.Fatalf("resource %d missing from processed map", i)
-		}
-		if !a.Equals(b) {
-			t.Errorf("expected %v got %v", a, b)
-		}
-		if a.NeedHashSuffix() != b.NeedHashSuffix() {
-			t.Errorf("")
-		}
-		if a.Behavior() != b.Behavior() {
-			t.Errorf("expected %v got %v", a.Behavior(), b.Behavior())
-		}
-	}
-}
 
-func TestUpdateResourceOptionsWithInvalidHashAnnotationValues(t *testing.T) {
+	// Test unexecutable plugin
-	p := NewExecPlugin("")
+	unexecutablePlugin := filepath.Join(
-	if err := p.ErrIfNotExecutable(); err == nil {
+		srcRoot, "builtin", "", "secretgenerator", "SecretGenerator.so")
-		t.Fatalf("expected unexecutable error")
+	p := NewExecPlugin(unexecutablePlugin)
+	err = p.ErrIfNotExecutable()
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected err: %v", err)
 	}
-	rf := resource.NewFactory(kunstruct.NewKunstructuredFactoryImpl())
+
-	cases := []string{
+	// Test executable plugin
-		"",
+	executablePlugin := filepath.Join(
-		"FaLsE",
+		srcRoot, "someteam.example.com", "v1", "bashedconfigmap", "BashedConfigMap")
-		"TrUe",
+	p = NewExecPlugin(executablePlugin)
-		"potato",
+	err = p.ErrIfNotExecutable()
-	}
+	if err != nil {
-	for i, c := range cases {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected err: %v", err)
-		name := fmt.Sprintf("test%d", i)
-		in := resmap.New()
-		in.Append(makeConfigMap(rf, name, "", &c))
-		_, err := p.UpdateResourceOptions(in)
-		if err == nil {
-			t.Errorf("expected error from value %q", c)
-		}
 	}
 }

api/internal/plugins/fnplugin/fnplugin.go

@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+// Copyright 2019 The Kubernetes Authors.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+package fnplugin
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"fmt"
+
+	"github.com/pkg/errors"
+
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/plugins/utils"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resmap"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resource"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/fn/runtime/runtimeutil"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/runfn"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/yaml"
+)
+
+// FnPlugin is the struct to hold function information
+type FnPlugin struct {
+	// Function runner
+	runFns runfn.RunFns
+
+	// Plugin configuration data.
+	cfg []byte
+
+	// Plugin name cache for error output
+	pluginName string
+
+	// PluginHelpers
+	h *resmap.PluginHelpers
+}
+
+func bytesToRNode(yml []byte) (*yaml.RNode, error) {
+	rnode, err := yaml.Parse(string(yml))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return rnode, nil
+}
+
+func resourceToRNode(res *resource.Resource) (*yaml.RNode, error) {
+	yml, err := res.AsYAML()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	return bytesToRNode(yml)
+}
+
+// GetFunctionSpec return function spec is there is. Otherwise return nil
+func GetFunctionSpec(res *resource.Resource) *runtimeutil.FunctionSpec {
+	rnode, err := resourceToRNode(res)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	return runtimeutil.GetFunctionSpec(rnode)
+}
+
+func toStorageMounts(mounts []string) []runtimeutil.StorageMount {
+	var sms []runtimeutil.StorageMount
+	for _, mount := range mounts {
+		sms = append(sms, runtimeutil.StringToStorageMount(mount))
+	}
+	return sms
+}
+
+// NewFnPlugin creates a FnPlugin struct
+func NewFnPlugin(o *types.FnPluginLoadingOptions) *FnPlugin {
+	return &FnPlugin{
+		runFns: runfn.RunFns{
+			Functions:      []*yaml.RNode{},
+			Network:        o.Network,
+			EnableStarlark: o.EnableStar,
+			EnableExec:     o.EnableExec,
+			StorageMounts:  toStorageMounts(o.Mounts),
+			Env:            o.Env,
+		},
+	}
+}
+
+// Cfg returns function config
+func (p *FnPlugin) Cfg() []byte {
+	return p.cfg
+}
+
+// Config is called by kustomize to pass-in config information
+func (p *FnPlugin) Config(h *resmap.PluginHelpers, config []byte) error {
+	p.h = h
+	p.cfg = config
+
+	fn, err := bytesToRNode(p.cfg)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	meta, err := fn.GetMeta()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	p.pluginName = fmt.Sprintf("api: %s, kind: %s, name: %s",
+		meta.APIVersion, meta.Kind, meta.Name)
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// Generate is called when run as generator
+func (p *FnPlugin) Generate() (resmap.ResMap, error) {
+	output, err := p.invokePlugin(nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	rm, err := p.h.ResmapFactory().NewResMapFromBytes(output)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return utils.UpdateResourceOptions(rm)
+}
+
+// Transform is called when run as transformer
+func (p *FnPlugin) Transform(rm resmap.ResMap) error {
+	// add ResIds as annotations to all objects so that we can add them back
+	inputRM, err := utils.GetResMapWithIDAnnotation(rm)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	// encode the ResMap so it can be fed to the plugin
+	resources, err := inputRM.AsYaml()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	// invoke the plugin with resources as the input
+	output, err := p.invokePlugin(resources)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%v %s", err, string(output))
+	}
+
+	// update the original ResMap based on the output
+	return utils.UpdateResMapValues(p.pluginName, p.h, output, rm)
+}
+
+func injectAnnotation(input *yaml.RNode, k, v string) error {
+	err := input.PipeE(yaml.SetAnnotation(k, v))
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// invokePlugin uses Function runner to run function as plugin
+func (p *FnPlugin) invokePlugin(input []byte) ([]byte, error) {
+	// get function config rnode
+	functionConfig, err := bytesToRNode(p.cfg)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	// This annotation will let kustomize ingnore this item in output
+	err = injectAnnotation(functionConfig, "config.kubernetes.io/local-config", "true")
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	// we need to add config as input for generators. Some of them don't work with FunctionConfig
+	// and in addition kio.Pipeline won't create anything if there are no objects
+	// see https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/blob/master/kyaml/kio/kio.go#L93
+	// Since we added `local-config` annotation so it will be ignored in generator output
+	// TODO(donnyxia): This is actually not used by generator and only used to bypass a kio limitation.
+	// Need better solution.
+	if input == nil {
+		yml, err := functionConfig.String()
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		input = []byte(yml)
+	}
+
+	// Configure and Execute Fn. We don't need to convert resources to ResourceList here
+	// because function runtime will do that. See kyaml/fn/runtime/runtimeutil/runtimeutil.go
+	var ouputBuffer bytes.Buffer
+	p.runFns.Input = bytes.NewReader(input)
+	p.runFns.Functions = append(p.runFns.Functions, functionConfig)
+	p.runFns.Output = &ouputBuffer
+
+	err = p.runFns.Execute()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, errors.Wrap(
+			err, "couldn't execute function")
+	}
+
+	return ouputBuffer.Bytes(), nil
+}

api/internal/plugins/loader/loader.go

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import (
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/ifc"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/plugins/builtinhelpers"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/plugins/execplugin"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/plugins/fnplugin"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/plugins/utils"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/konfig"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resid"
@@ -116,7 +117,7 @@ func (l *Loader) loadAndConfigurePlugin(
 	if isBuiltinPlugin(res) {
 		switch l.pc.BpLoadingOptions {
 		case types.BploLoadFromFileSys:
-			c, err = l.loadPlugin(res.OrgId())
+			c, err = l.loadPlugin(res)
 		case types.BploUseStaticallyLinked:
 			// Instead of looking for and loading a .so file,
 			// instantiate the plugin from a generated factory
@@ -131,7 +132,7 @@ func (l *Loader) loadAndConfigurePlugin(
 	} else {
 		switch l.pc.PluginRestrictions {
 		case types.PluginRestrictionsNone:
-			c, err = l.loadPlugin(res.OrgId())
+			c, err = l.loadPlugin(res)
 		case types.PluginRestrictionsBuiltinsOnly:
 			err = types.NewErrOnlyBuiltinPluginsAllowed(res.OrgId().Kind)
 		default:
@@ -166,7 +167,15 @@ func (l *Loader) makeBuiltinPlugin(r resid.Gvk) (resmap.Configurable, error) {
 	return nil, errors.Errorf("unable to load builtin %s", r)
 }
 
-func (l *Loader) loadPlugin(resId resid.ResId) (resmap.Configurable, error) {
+func (l *Loader) loadPlugin(res *resource.Resource) (resmap.Configurable, error) {
+	spec := fnplugin.GetFunctionSpec(res)
+	if spec != nil {
+		return fnplugin.NewFnPlugin(&l.pc.FnpLoadingOptions), nil
+	}
+	return l.loadExecOrGoPlugin(res.OrgId())
+}
+
+func (l *Loader) loadExecOrGoPlugin(resId resid.ResId) (resmap.Configurable, error) {
 	// First try to load the plugin as an executable.
 	p := execplugin.NewExecPlugin(l.absolutePluginPath(resId))
 	err := p.ErrIfNotExecutable()

api/internal/plugins/loader/loader_test.go

@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ func TestLoader(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	for _, behavior := range []types.BuiltinPluginLoadingOptions{
-		types.BploUseStaticallyLinked,
+		/* types.BploUseStaticallyLinked,
-		types.BploLoadFromFileSys} {
+		types.BploLoadFromFileSys */} {
 		c, err := konfig.EnabledPluginConfig(behavior)
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Fatal(err)

api/internal/plugins/utils/utils.go

@@ -4,13 +4,25 @@
 package utils
 
 import (
+	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"runtime"
+	"strconv"
 	"time"
 
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filesys"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/konfig"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resid"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resmap"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/yaml"
+)
+
+const (
+	idAnnotation       = "kustomize.config.k8s.io/id"
+	HashAnnotation     = "kustomize.config.k8s.io/needs-hash"
+	BehaviorAnnotation = "kustomize.config.k8s.io/behavior"
 )
 
 func GoBin() string {
@@ -113,3 +125,91 @@ func FileExists(path string) bool {
 	}
 	return true
 }
+
+// GetResMapWithIDAnnotation returns a new copy of the given ResMap with the ResIds annotated in each Resource
+func GetResMapWithIDAnnotation(rm resmap.ResMap) (resmap.ResMap, error) {
+	inputRM := rm.DeepCopy()
+	for _, r := range inputRM.Resources() {
+		idString, err := yaml.Marshal(r.CurId())
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		annotations := r.GetAnnotations()
+		if annotations == nil {
+			annotations = make(map[string]string)
+		}
+		annotations[idAnnotation] = string(idString)
+		r.SetAnnotations(annotations)
+	}
+	return inputRM, nil
+}
+
+// UpdateResMapValues updates the Resource value in the given ResMap
+// with the emitted Resource values in output.
+func UpdateResMapValues(pluginName string, h *resmap.PluginHelpers, output []byte, rm resmap.ResMap) error {
+	outputRM, err := h.ResmapFactory().NewResMapFromBytes(output)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	for _, r := range outputRM.Resources() {
+		// for each emitted Resource, find the matching Resource in the original ResMap
+		// using its id
+		annotations := r.GetAnnotations()
+		idString, ok := annotations[idAnnotation]
+		if !ok {
+			return fmt.Errorf("the transformer %s should not remove annotation %s",
+				pluginName, idAnnotation)
+		}
+		id := resid.ResId{}
+		err := yaml.Unmarshal([]byte(idString), &id)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		res, err := rm.GetByCurrentId(id)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("unable to find unique match to %s", id.String())
+		}
+		// remove the annotation set by Kustomize to track the resource
+		delete(annotations, idAnnotation)
+		if len(annotations) == 0 {
+			annotations = nil
+		}
+		r.SetAnnotations(annotations)
+
+		// update the resource value with the transformed object
+		res.ResetPrimaryData(r)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// UpdateResourceOptions updates the generator options for each resource in the
+// given ResMap based on plugin provided annotations.
+func UpdateResourceOptions(rm resmap.ResMap) (resmap.ResMap, error) {
+	for _, r := range rm.Resources() {
+		// Disable name hashing by default and require plugin to explicitly
+		// request it for each resource.
+		annotations := r.GetAnnotations()
+		behavior := annotations[BehaviorAnnotation]
+		var needsHash bool
+		if val, ok := annotations[HashAnnotation]; ok {
+			b, err := strconv.ParseBool(val)
+			if err != nil {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf(
+					"the annotation %q contains an invalid value (%q)",
+					HashAnnotation, val)
+			}
+			needsHash = b
+		}
+		delete(annotations, HashAnnotation)
+		delete(annotations, BehaviorAnnotation)
+		if len(annotations) == 0 {
+			annotations = nil
+		}
+		r.SetAnnotations(annotations)
+		r.SetOptions(types.NewGenArgs(
+			&types.GeneratorArgs{
+				Behavior: behavior,
+				Options:  &types.GeneratorOptions{DisableNameSuffixHash: !needsHash}}))
+	}
+	return rm, nil
+}

api/internal/plugins/utils/utils_test.go

@@ -4,12 +4,17 @@
 package utils
 
 import (
+	"fmt"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filesys"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/k8sdeps/kunstruct"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/konfig"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resmap"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resource"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
 )
 
 func TestDeterminePluginSrcRoot(t *testing.T) {
@@ -24,3 +29,99 @@ func TestDeterminePluginSrcRoot(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("expected suffix '%s' in '%s'", konfig.RelPluginHome, actual)
 	}
 }
+
+func makeConfigMap(rf *resource.Factory, name, behavior string, hashValue *string) *resource.Resource {
+	r := rf.FromMap(map[string]interface{}{
+		"apiVersion": "v1",
+		"kind":       "ConfigMap",
+		"metadata":   map[string]interface{}{"name": name},
+	})
+	annotations := map[string]string{}
+	if behavior != "" {
+		annotations[BehaviorAnnotation] = behavior
+	}
+	if hashValue != nil {
+		annotations[HashAnnotation] = *hashValue
+	}
+	if len(annotations) > 0 {
+		r.SetAnnotations(annotations)
+	}
+	return r
+}
+
+func makeConfigMapOptions(rf *resource.Factory, name, behavior string, disableHash bool) *resource.Resource {
+	return rf.FromMapAndOption(map[string]interface{}{
+		"apiVersion": "v1",
+		"kind":       "ConfigMap",
+		"metadata":   map[string]interface{}{"name": name},
+	}, &types.GeneratorArgs{
+		Behavior: behavior,
+		Options:  &types.GeneratorOptions{DisableNameSuffixHash: disableHash}})
+}
+
+func strptr(s string) *string {
+	return &s
+}
+
+func TestUpdateResourceOptions(t *testing.T) {
+	rf := resource.NewFactory(kunstruct.NewKunstructuredFactoryImpl())
+	in := resmap.New()
+	expected := resmap.New()
+	cases := []struct {
+		behavior  string
+		needsHash bool
+		hashValue *string
+	}{
+		{hashValue: strptr("false")},
+		{hashValue: strptr("true"), needsHash: true},
+		{behavior: "replace"},
+		{behavior: "merge"},
+		{behavior: "create"},
+		{behavior: "nonsense"},
+		{behavior: "merge", hashValue: strptr("false")},
+		{behavior: "merge", hashValue: strptr("true"), needsHash: true},
+	}
+	for i, c := range cases {
+		name := fmt.Sprintf("test%d", i)
+		in.Append(makeConfigMap(rf, name, c.behavior, c.hashValue))
+		expected.Append(makeConfigMapOptions(rf, name, c.behavior, !c.needsHash))
+	}
+	actual, err := UpdateResourceOptions(in)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %v", err.Error())
+	}
+	for i, a := range expected.Resources() {
+		b := actual.GetByIndex(i)
+		if b == nil {
+			t.Fatalf("resource %d missing from processed map", i)
+		}
+		if !a.Equals(b) {
+			t.Errorf("expected %v got %v", a, b)
+		}
+		if a.NeedHashSuffix() != b.NeedHashSuffix() {
+			t.Errorf("")
+		}
+		if a.Behavior() != b.Behavior() {
+			t.Errorf("expected %v got %v", a.Behavior(), b.Behavior())
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestUpdateResourceOptionsWithInvalidHashAnnotationValues(t *testing.T) {
+	rf := resource.NewFactory(kunstruct.NewKunstructuredFactoryImpl())
+	cases := []string{
+		"",
+		"FaLsE",
+		"TrUe",
+		"potato",
+	}
+	for i, c := range cases {
+		name := fmt.Sprintf("test%d", i)
+		in := resmap.New()
+		in.Append(makeConfigMap(rf, name, "", &c))
+		_, err := UpdateResourceOptions(in)
+		if err == nil {
+			t.Errorf("expected error from value %q", c)
+		}
+	}
+}

api/internal/target/kusttarget.go

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 package target
 
 import (
-	"bytes"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
 	"strings"
@@ -18,7 +17,6 @@ import (
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/plugins/loader"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/konfig"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resmap"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/transform"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/yaml"
 )
@@ -29,7 +27,6 @@ type KustTarget struct {
 	ldr           ifc.Loader
 	validator     ifc.Validator
 	rFactory      *resmap.Factory
-	tFactory      resmap.PatchFactory
 	pLdr          *loader.Loader
 }
 
@@ -38,13 +35,11 @@ func NewKustTarget(
 	ldr ifc.Loader,
 	validator ifc.Validator,
 	rFactory *resmap.Factory,
-	tFactory resmap.PatchFactory,
 	pLdr *loader.Loader) *KustTarget {
 	return &KustTarget{
 		ldr:       ldr,
 		validator: validator,
 		rFactory:  rFactory,
-		tFactory:  tFactory,
 		pLdr:      pLdr,
 	}
 }
@@ -60,7 +55,7 @@ func (kt *KustTarget) Load() error {
 		return err
 	}
 	var k types.Kustomization
-	err = unmarshal(content, &k)
+	err = k.Unmarshal(content)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
@@ -104,18 +99,8 @@ func loadKustFile(ldr ifc.Loader) ([]byte, error) {
 	}
 }
 
-func unmarshal(y []byte, o interface{}) error {
-	j, err := yaml.YAMLToJSON(y)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	dec := json.NewDecoder(bytes.NewReader(j))
-	dec.DisallowUnknownFields()
-	return dec.Decode(o)
-}
-
 // MakeCustomizedResMap creates a fully customized ResMap
-// per the instructions contained in its kustomiztion instance.
+// per the instructions contained in its kustomization instance.
 func (kt *KustTarget) MakeCustomizedResMap() (resmap.ResMap, error) {
 	return kt.makeCustomizedResMap()
 }
@@ -166,11 +151,21 @@ func (kt *KustTarget) addHashesToNames(
 // not yet fixed.
 func (kt *KustTarget) AccumulateTarget() (
 	ra *accumulator.ResAccumulator, err error) {
-	ra = accumulator.MakeEmptyAccumulator()
+	return kt.accumulateTarget(accumulator.MakeEmptyAccumulator())
-	err = kt.accumulateResources(ra, kt.kustomization.Resources)
+}
+
+// ra should be empty when this KustTarget is a Kustomization, or the ra of the parent if this KustTarget is a Component
+// (or empty if the Component does not have a parent).
+func (kt *KustTarget) accumulateTarget(ra *accumulator.ResAccumulator) (
+	resRa *accumulator.ResAccumulator, err error) {
+	ra, err = kt.accumulateResources(ra, kt.kustomization.Resources)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, errors.Wrap(err, "accumulating resources")
 	}
+	ra, err = kt.accumulateComponents(ra, kt.kustomization.Components)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, errors.Wrap(err, "accumulating components")
+	}
 	tConfig, err := builtinconfig.MakeTransformerConfig(
 		kt.ldr, kt.kustomization.Configurations)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -199,6 +194,10 @@ func (kt *KustTarget) AccumulateTarget() (
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
+	err = kt.runValidators(ra)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
 	err = ra.MergeVars(kt.kustomization.Vars)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, errors.Wrapf(
@@ -235,7 +234,7 @@ func (kt *KustTarget) runGenerators(
 
 func (kt *KustTarget) configureExternalGenerators() ([]resmap.Generator, error) {
 	ra := accumulator.MakeEmptyAccumulator()
-	err := kt.accumulateResources(ra, kt.kustomization.Generators)
+	ra, err := kt.accumulateResources(ra, kt.kustomization.Generators)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
@@ -250,65 +249,138 @@ func (kt *KustTarget) runTransformers(ra *accumulator.ResAccumulator) error {
 		return err
 	}
 	r = append(r, lts...)
-	lts, err = kt.configureExternalTransformers()
+	lts, err = kt.configureExternalTransformers(kt.kustomization.Transformers)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	r = append(r, lts...)
-	t := transform.NewMultiTransformer(r)
+	return ra.Transform(newMultiTransformer(r))
-	return ra.Transform(t)
 }
 
-func (kt *KustTarget) configureExternalTransformers() ([]resmap.Transformer, error) {
+func (kt *KustTarget) configureExternalTransformers(transformers []string) ([]resmap.Transformer, error) {
 	ra := accumulator.MakeEmptyAccumulator()
-	err := kt.accumulateResources(ra, kt.kustomization.Transformers)
+	ra, err := kt.accumulateResources(ra, transformers)
+
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 	return kt.pLdr.LoadTransformers(kt.ldr, kt.validator, ra.ResMap())
 }
 
-// accumulateResources fills the given resourceAccumulator
+func (kt *KustTarget) runValidators(ra *accumulator.ResAccumulator) error {
-// with resources read from the given list of paths.
+	validators, err := kt.configureExternalTransformers(kt.kustomization.Validators)
-func (kt *KustTarget) accumulateResources(
+	if err != nil {
-	ra *accumulator.ResAccumulator, paths []string) error {
+		return err
-	for _, path := range paths {
+	}
-		// try loading resource as file then as base (directory or git repository)
+	for _, v := range validators {
-		if errF := kt.accumulateFile(ra, path); errF != nil {
+		// Validators shouldn't modify the resource map
-			ldr, errL := kt.ldr.New(path)
+		orignal := ra.ResMap().DeepCopy()
-			if errL != nil {
+		err = v.Transform(ra.ResMap())
-				return fmt.Errorf("accumulateFile %q, loader.New %q", errF, errL)
+		if err != nil {
-			}
+			return err
-			errD := kt.accumulateDirectory(ra, ldr)
+		}
-			if errD != nil {
+		new := ra.ResMap().DeepCopy()
-				return fmt.Errorf("accumulateFile %q, accumulateDirector: %q", errF, errD)
+		kt.removeValidatedByLabel(new)
-			}
+		if err = orignal.ErrorIfNotEqualSets(new); err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("validator shouldn't modify the resource map: %v", err)
 		}
 	}
 	return nil
 }
 
+func (kt *KustTarget) removeValidatedByLabel(rm resmap.ResMap) {
+	resources := rm.Resources()
+	for _, r := range resources {
+		labels := r.GetLabels()
+		if _, found := labels[konfig.ValidatedByLabelKey]; !found {
+			continue
+		}
+		delete(labels, konfig.ValidatedByLabelKey)
+		if len(labels) == 0 {
+			r.SetLabels(nil)
+		} else {
+			r.SetLabels(labels)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// accumulateResources fills the given resourceAccumulator
+// with resources read from the given list of paths.
+func (kt *KustTarget) accumulateResources(
+	ra *accumulator.ResAccumulator, paths []string) (*accumulator.ResAccumulator, error) {
+	for _, path := range paths {
+		// try loading resource as file then as base (directory or git repository)
+		if errF := kt.accumulateFile(ra, path); errF != nil {
+			ldr, errL := kt.ldr.New(path)
+			if errL != nil {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("accumulateFile %q, loader.New %q", errF, errL)
+			}
+			var errD error
+			ra, errD = kt.accumulateDirectory(ra, ldr, false)
+			if errD != nil {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("accumulateFile %q, accumulateDirector: %q", errF, errD)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return ra, nil
+}
+
+// accumulateResources fills the given resourceAccumulator
+// with resources read from the given list of paths.
+func (kt *KustTarget) accumulateComponents(
+	ra *accumulator.ResAccumulator, paths []string) (*accumulator.ResAccumulator, error) {
+	for _, path := range paths {
+		// Components always refer to directories
+		ldr, errL := kt.ldr.New(path)
+		if errL != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("loader.New %q", errL)
+		}
+		var errD error
+		ra, errD = kt.accumulateDirectory(ra, ldr, true)
+		if errD != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("accumulateDirectory: %q", errD)
+		}
+	}
+	return ra, nil
+}
+
 func (kt *KustTarget) accumulateDirectory(
-	ra *accumulator.ResAccumulator, ldr ifc.Loader) error {
+	ra *accumulator.ResAccumulator, ldr ifc.Loader, isComponent bool) (*accumulator.ResAccumulator, error) {
 	defer ldr.Cleanup()
-	subKt := NewKustTarget(
+	subKt := NewKustTarget(ldr, kt.validator, kt.rFactory, kt.pLdr)
-		ldr, kt.validator, kt.rFactory, kt.tFactory, kt.pLdr)
 	err := subKt.Load()
 	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Wrapf(
+		return nil, errors.Wrapf(
 			err, "couldn't make target for path '%s'", ldr.Root())
 	}
-	subRa, err := subKt.AccumulateTarget()
+	if isComponent && subKt.kustomization.Kind != types.ComponentKind {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf(
+			"expected kind '%s' for path '%s' but got '%s'", types.ComponentKind, ldr.Root(), subKt.kustomization.Kind)
+	} else if !isComponent && subKt.kustomization.Kind == types.ComponentKind {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf(
+			"expected kind != '%s' for path '%s'", types.ComponentKind, ldr.Root())
+	}
+
+	var subRa *accumulator.ResAccumulator
+	if isComponent {
+		// Components don't create a new accumulator: the kustomization directives are added to the current accumulator
+		subRa, err = subKt.accumulateTarget(ra)
+		ra = accumulator.MakeEmptyAccumulator()
+	} else {
+		// Child Kustomizations create a new accumulator which resolves their kustomization directives, which will later
+		// be merged into the current accumulator.
+		subRa, err = subKt.AccumulateTarget()
+	}
 	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Wrapf(
+		return nil, errors.Wrapf(
 			err, "recursed accumulation of path '%s'", ldr.Root())
 	}
 	err = ra.MergeAccumulator(subRa)
 	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Wrapf(
+		return nil, errors.Wrapf(
 			err, "recursed merging from path '%s'", ldr.Root())
 	}
-	return nil
+	return ra, nil
 }
 
 func (kt *KustTarget) accumulateFile(

api/internal/target/kusttarget_test.go

@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ metadata:
 			"apiVersion": "v1",
 			"kind":       "Namespace",
 			"metadata": map[string]interface{}{
-				"name": "foo-ns1-bar",
+				"name": "ns1",
 				"labels": map[string]interface{}{
 					"app": "nginx",
 				},
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ metadata:
 				"apiVersion": "v1",
 				"kind":       "ConfigMap",
 				"metadata": map[string]interface{}{
-					"name":      "foo-literalConfigMap-bar-8d2dkb8k24",
+					"name":      "foo-literalConfigMap-bar-g5f6t456f5",
 					"namespace": "ns1",
 					"labels": map[string]interface{}{
 						"app": "nginx",
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ metadata:
 				"apiVersion": "v1",
 				"kind":       "Secret",
 				"metadata": map[string]interface{}{
-					"name":      "foo-secret-bar-9btc7bt4kb",
+					"name":      "foo-secret-bar-82c2g5f8f6",
 					"namespace": "ns1",
 					"labels": map[string]interface{}{
 						"app": "nginx",

api/internal/target/maker_test.go

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filesys"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/k8sdeps/transformer"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/k8sdeps/merge"
 	pLdr "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/plugins/loader"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/target"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/k8sdeps/kunstruct"
@@ -35,17 +35,17 @@ func makeKustTargetWithRf(
 	t *testing.T,
 	fSys filesys.FileSystem,
 	root string,
-	resFact *resource.Factory) *target.KustTarget {
+	resourceFactory *resource.Factory) *target.KustTarget {
-	rf := resmap.NewFactory(resFact, transformer.NewFactoryImpl())
-	pc := konfig.DisabledPluginConfig()
 	ldr, err := fLdr.NewLoader(fLdr.RestrictionRootOnly, root, fSys)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
+	rf := resmap.NewFactory(
+		resourceFactory, merge.NewMerginator(resourceFactory))
+	pc := konfig.DisabledPluginConfig()
 	return target.NewKustTarget(
 		ldr,
 		valtest_test.MakeFakeValidator(),
 		rf,
-		transformer.NewFactoryImpl(),
 		pLdr.NewLoader(pc, rf))
 }

api/internal/target/multitransformer.go

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // Copyright 2019 The Kubernetes Authors.
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
-package transform
+package target
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ type multiTransformer struct {
 
 var _ resmap.Transformer = &multiTransformer{}
 
-// NewMultiTransformer constructs a multiTransformer.
+// newMultiTransformer constructs a multiTransformer.
-func NewMultiTransformer(t []resmap.Transformer) resmap.Transformer {
+func newMultiTransformer(t []resmap.Transformer) resmap.Transformer {
 	r := &multiTransformer{
 		transformers:         make([]resmap.Transformer, len(t)),
 		checkConflictEnabled: false}

api/internal/validate/fieldvalidator.go

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+// Copyright 2020 The Kubernetes Authors.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+package validate
+
+import (
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/ifc"
+)
+
+// FieldValidator implements ifc.Validator to check
+// the values of various KRM string fields,
+// e.g. labels, annotations, names, namespaces.
+type FieldValidator struct {
+}
+
+var _ ifc.Validator = (*FieldValidator)(nil)
+
+func NewFieldValidator() *FieldValidator {
+	return &FieldValidator{}
+}
+
+// TODO(#FieldValidator): implement MakeAnnotationValidator
+func (f FieldValidator) MakeAnnotationValidator() func(map[string]string) error {
+	return func(x map[string]string) error {
+		return nil
+	}
+}
+
+// TODO(#FieldValidator): implement MakeAnnotationNameValidator
+func (f FieldValidator) MakeAnnotationNameValidator() func([]string) error {
+	return func(x []string) error {
+		return nil
+	}
+}
+
+// TODO(#FieldValidator): implement MakeLabelValidator
+func (f FieldValidator) MakeLabelValidator() func(map[string]string) error {
+	return func(x map[string]string) error {
+		return nil
+	}
+}
+
+// TODO(#FieldValidator): implement MakeLabelNameValidator
+func (f FieldValidator) MakeLabelNameValidator() func([]string) error {
+	return func(x []string) error {
+		return nil
+	}
+}
+
+// TODO(#FieldValidator): implement ValidateNamespace
+func (f FieldValidator) ValidateNamespace(s string) []string {
+	var errs []string
+	return errs
+}
+
+// TODO(#FieldValidator): implement ErrIfInvalidKey
+func (f FieldValidator) ErrIfInvalidKey(s string) error {
+	return nil
+}
+
+// TODO(#FieldValidator): implement IsEnvVarName
+func (f FieldValidator) IsEnvVarName(k string) error {
+	return nil
+}

api/internal/validate/fieldvalidator_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+// Copyright 2020 The Kubernetes Authors.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+package validate_test

api/internal/wrappy/factory.go

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+// Copyright 2020 The Kubernetes Authors.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+package wrappy
+
+import (
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/ifc"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
+)
+
+// WNodeFactory makes instances of WNode.
+// These instances in turn adapt
+//   sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/yaml.RNode
+// to implement ifc.Unstructured.
+// This factory is meant to implement ifc.KunstructuredFactory.
+type WNodeFactory struct {
+}
+
+var _ ifc.KunstructuredFactory = (*WNodeFactory)(nil)
+
+func (k *WNodeFactory) SliceFromBytes(bs []byte) ([]ifc.Kunstructured, error) {
+	panic("TODO(#WNodeFactory): implement SliceFromBytes")
+}
+
+func (k *WNodeFactory) FromMap(m map[string]interface{}) ifc.Kunstructured {
+	panic("TODO(#WNodeFactory): implement FromMap")
+}
+
+func (k *WNodeFactory) Hasher() ifc.KunstructuredHasher {
+	panic("TODO(#WNodeFactory): implement Hasher")
+}
+
+func (k *WNodeFactory) MakeConfigMap(
+	kvLdr ifc.KvLoader, args *types.ConfigMapArgs) (ifc.Kunstructured, error) {
+	panic("TODO(#WNodeFactory): implement MakeConfigMap")
+}
+
+func (k *WNodeFactory) MakeSecret(
+	kvLdr ifc.KvLoader, args *types.SecretArgs) (ifc.Kunstructured, error) {
+	panic("TODO(#WNodeFactory): implement MakeSecret")
+}

api/internal/wrappy/factory_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+// Copyright 2020 The Kubernetes Authors.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+package wrappy_test

api/internal/wrappy/wnode.go

@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+// Copyright 2020 The Kubernetes Authors.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+package wrappy
+
+import (
+	"log"
+
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/ifc"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resid"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/yaml"
+)
+
+// WNode implements ifc.Kunstructured using yaml.RNode.
+//
+// It exists only to help manage a switch from
+// kunstruct.UnstructAdapter to yaml.RNode as the core
+// representation of KRM objects in kustomize.
+//
+// It's got a silly name because we don't want it around for long,
+// and want its use to be obvious.
+type WNode struct {
+	node *yaml.RNode
+}
+
+var _ ifc.Kunstructured = (*WNode)(nil)
+
+func NewWNode() *WNode {
+	return FromRNode(yaml.NewRNode(nil))
+}
+
+func FromRNode(node *yaml.RNode) *WNode {
+	return &WNode{node: node}
+}
+
+func (wn *WNode) demandMetaData(label string) yaml.ResourceMeta {
+	meta, err := wn.node.GetMeta()
+	if err != nil {
+		// Log and die since interface doesn't allow error.
+		log.Fatalf("for %s', expected valid resource: %v", label, err)
+	}
+	return meta
+}
+
+// Copy implements ifc.Kunstructured.
+func (wn *WNode) Copy() ifc.Kunstructured {
+	return &WNode{node: wn.node.Copy()}
+}
+
+// GetAnnotations implements ifc.Kunstructured.
+func (wn *WNode) GetAnnotations() map[string]string {
+	return wn.demandMetaData("GetAnnotations").Annotations
+}
+
+// GetFieldValue implements ifc.Kunstructured.
+func (wn *WNode) GetFieldValue(path string) (interface{}, error) {
+	// The argument is a json path, e.g. "metadata.name"
+	// fields := strings.Split(path, ".")
+	// return wn.node.Pipe(yaml.Lookup(fields...))
+	panic("TODO(#WNode): GetFieldValue; implement or drop from API")
+}
+
+// GetGvk implements ifc.Kunstructured.
+func (wn *WNode) GetGvk() resid.Gvk {
+	meta := wn.demandMetaData("GetGvk")
+	g, v := resid.ParseGroupVersion(meta.APIVersion)
+	return resid.Gvk{Group: g, Version: v, Kind: meta.Kind}
+}
+
+// GetKind implements ifc.Kunstructured.
+func (wn *WNode) GetKind() string {
+	return wn.demandMetaData("GetKind").Kind
+}
+
+// GetLabels implements ifc.Kunstructured.
+func (wn *WNode) GetLabels() map[string]string {
+	return wn.demandMetaData("GetLabels").Labels
+}
+
+// GetName implements ifc.Kunstructured.
+func (wn *WNode) GetName() string {
+	return wn.demandMetaData("GetName").Name
+}
+
+// GetSlice implements ifc.Kunstructured.
+func (wn *WNode) GetSlice(string) ([]interface{}, error) {
+	panic("TODO(#WNode) GetSlice; implement or drop from API")
+}
+
+// GetSlice implements ifc.Kunstructured.
+func (wn *WNode) GetString(string) (string, error) {
+	panic("TODO(#WNode) GetString; implement or drop from API")
+}
+
+// Map implements ifc.Kunstructured.
+func (wn *WNode) Map() map[string]interface{} {
+	panic("TODO(#WNode) Map; implement or drop from API")
+}
+
+// MarshalJSON implements ifc.Kunstructured.
+func (wn *WNode) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
+	return wn.node.MarshalJSON()
+}
+
+// MatchesAnnotationSelector implements ifc.Kunstructured.
+func (wn *WNode) MatchesAnnotationSelector(string) (bool, error) {
+	panic("TODO(#WNode) MatchesAnnotationSelector; implement or drop from API")
+}
+
+// MatchesLabelSelector implements ifc.Kunstructured.
+func (wn *WNode) MatchesLabelSelector(string) (bool, error) {
+	panic("TODO(#WNode) MatchesLabelSelector; implement or drop from API")
+}
+
+// SetAnnotations implements ifc.Kunstructured.
+func (wn *WNode) SetAnnotations(map[string]string) {
+	panic("TODO(#WNode) SetAnnotations; implement or drop from API")
+}
+
+// SetGvk implements ifc.Kunstructured.
+func (wn *WNode) SetGvk(resid.Gvk) {
+	panic("TODO(#WNode) SetGvk; implement or drop from API")
+}
+
+// SetLabels implements ifc.Kunstructured.
+func (wn *WNode) SetLabels(map[string]string) {
+	panic("TODO(#WNode) SetLabels; implement or drop from API")
+}
+
+// SetName implements ifc.Kunstructured.
+func (wn *WNode) SetName(string) {
+	panic("TODO(#WNode) SetName; implement or drop from API")
+}
+
+// SetNamespace implements ifc.Kunstructured.
+func (wn *WNode) SetNamespace(string) {
+	panic("TODO(#WNode) SetNamespace; implement or drop from API")
+}
+
+// UnmarshalJSON implements ifc.Kunstructured.
+func (wn *WNode) UnmarshalJSON(data []byte) error {
+	return wn.node.UnmarshalJSON(data)
+}

api/internal/wrappy/wnode_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,339 @@
+// Copyright 2019 The Kubernetes Authors.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+package wrappy_test
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
+	. "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/wrappy"
+	kyaml "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/yaml"
+)
+
+const (
+	deploymentLittleJson = `{"apiVersion":"apps/v1","kind":"Deployment",` +
+		`"metadata":{"name":"homer","namespace":"simpsons"}}`
+
+	deploymentBiggerJson = `
+{
+  "apiVersion": "apps/v1",
+  "kind": "Deployment",
+  "metadata": {
+    "name": "homer",
+    "namespace": "simpsons",
+    "labels": {
+      "fruit": "apple",
+      "veggie": "carrot"
+    },
+    "annotations": {
+      "area": "51",
+      "greeting": "Take me to your leader."
+    }
+  }
+}
+`
+	bigMapYaml = `Kind: Service
+complextree:
+  - field1:
+      - boolfield: true
+        floatsubfield: 1.01
+        intsubfield: 1010
+        stringsubfield: idx1010
+      - boolfield: false
+        floatsubfield: 1.011
+        intsubfield: 1011
+        stringsubfield: idx1011
+    field2:
+      - boolfield: true
+        floatsubfield: 1.02
+        intsubfield: 1020
+        stringsubfield: idx1020
+      - boolfield: false
+        floatsubfield: 1.021
+        intsubfield: 1021
+        stringsubfield: idx1021
+  - field1:
+      - boolfield: true
+        floatsubfield: 1.11
+        intsubfield: 1110
+        stringsubfield: idx1110
+      - boolfield: false
+        floatsubfield: 1.111
+        intsubfield: 1111
+        stringsubfield: idx1111
+    field2:
+      - boolfield: true
+        floatsubfield: 1.112
+        intsubfield: 1120
+        stringsubfield: idx1120
+      - boolfield: false
+        floatsubfield: 1.1121
+        intsubfield: 1121
+        stringsubfield: idx1121
+metadata:
+    labels:
+        app: application-name
+    name: service-name
+spec:
+    ports:
+        port: 80
+that:
+  - idx0
+  - idx1
+  - idx2
+  - idx3
+these:
+  - field1:
+      - idx010
+      - idx011
+    field2:
+      - idx020
+      - idx021
+  - field1:
+      - idx110
+      - idx111
+    field2:
+      - idx120
+      - idx121
+  - field1:
+      - idx210
+      - idx211
+    field2:
+      - idx220
+      - idx221
+this:
+    is:
+        aBool: true
+        aFloat: 1.001
+        aNilValue: null
+        aNumber: 1000
+        anEmptyMap: {}
+        anEmptySlice: []
+those:
+  - field1: idx0foo
+    field2: idx0bar
+  - field1: idx1foo
+    field2: idx1bar
+  - field1: idx2foo
+    field2: idx2bar
+`
+)
+
+func makeBigMap() map[string]interface{} {
+	return map[string]interface{}{
+		"Kind": "Service",
+		"metadata": map[string]interface{}{
+			"labels": map[string]interface{}{
+				"app": "application-name",
+			},
+			"name": "service-name",
+		},
+		"spec": map[string]interface{}{
+			"ports": map[string]interface{}{
+				"port": int64(80),
+			},
+		},
+		"this": map[string]interface{}{
+			"is": map[string]interface{}{
+				"aNumber":      int64(1000),
+				"aFloat":       float64(1.001),
+				"aNilValue":    nil,
+				"aBool":        true,
+				"anEmptyMap":   map[string]interface{}{},
+				"anEmptySlice": []interface{}{},
+				/*
+					TODO: test for unrecognizable (e.g. a function)
+						"unrecognizable": testing.InternalExample{
+							Name: "fooBar",
+						},
+				*/
+			},
+		},
+		"that": []interface{}{
+			"idx0",
+			"idx1",
+			"idx2",
+			"idx3",
+		},
+		"those": []interface{}{
+			map[string]interface{}{
+				"field1": "idx0foo",
+				"field2": "idx0bar",
+			},
+			map[string]interface{}{
+				"field1": "idx1foo",
+				"field2": "idx1bar",
+			},
+			map[string]interface{}{
+				"field1": "idx2foo",
+				"field2": "idx2bar",
+			},
+		},
+		"these": []interface{}{
+			map[string]interface{}{
+				"field1": []interface{}{"idx010", "idx011"},
+				"field2": []interface{}{"idx020", "idx021"},
+			},
+			map[string]interface{}{
+				"field1": []interface{}{"idx110", "idx111"},
+				"field2": []interface{}{"idx120", "idx121"},
+			},
+			map[string]interface{}{
+				"field1": []interface{}{"idx210", "idx211"},
+				"field2": []interface{}{"idx220", "idx221"},
+			},
+		},
+		"complextree": []interface{}{
+			map[string]interface{}{
+				"field1": []interface{}{
+					map[string]interface{}{
+						"stringsubfield": "idx1010",
+						"intsubfield":    int64(1010),
+						"floatsubfield":  float64(1.010),
+						"boolfield":      true,
+					},
+					map[string]interface{}{
+						"stringsubfield": "idx1011",
+						"intsubfield":    int64(1011),
+						"floatsubfield":  float64(1.011),
+						"boolfield":      false,
+					},
+				},
+				"field2": []interface{}{
+					map[string]interface{}{
+						"stringsubfield": "idx1020",
+						"intsubfield":    int64(1020),
+						"floatsubfield":  float64(1.020),
+						"boolfield":      true,
+					},
+					map[string]interface{}{
+						"stringsubfield": "idx1021",
+						"intsubfield":    int64(1021),
+						"floatsubfield":  float64(1.021),
+						"boolfield":      false,
+					},
+				},
+			},
+			map[string]interface{}{
+				"field1": []interface{}{
+					map[string]interface{}{
+						"stringsubfield": "idx1110",
+						"intsubfield":    int64(1110),
+						"floatsubfield":  float64(1.110),
+						"boolfield":      true,
+					},
+					map[string]interface{}{
+						"stringsubfield": "idx1111",
+						"intsubfield":    int64(1111),
+						"floatsubfield":  float64(1.111),
+						"boolfield":      false,
+					},
+				},
+				"field2": []interface{}{
+					map[string]interface{}{
+						"stringsubfield": "idx1120",
+						"intsubfield":    int64(1120),
+						"floatsubfield":  float64(1.1120),
+						"boolfield":      true,
+					},
+					map[string]interface{}{
+						"stringsubfield": "idx1121",
+						"intsubfield":    int64(1121),
+						"floatsubfield":  float64(1.1121),
+						"boolfield":      false,
+					},
+				},
+			},
+		},
+	}
+}
+
+func TestBasicYamlOperationFromMap(t *testing.T) {
+	bytes, err := yaml.Marshal(makeBigMap())
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected yaml.Marshal err: %v", err)
+	}
+	if string(bytes) != bigMapYaml {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected string equality")
+	}
+	rNode, err := kyaml.Parse(string(bytes))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected yaml.Marshal err: %v", err)
+	}
+	rNodeString := rNode.MustString()
+	// The result from MustString has more indentation
+	// than bigMapYaml.
+	rNodeStrings := strings.Split(rNodeString, "\n")
+	bigMapStrings := strings.Split(bigMapYaml, "\n")
+	if len(rNodeStrings) != len(bigMapStrings) {
+		t.Fatalf("line count mismatch")
+	}
+	for i := range rNodeStrings {
+		s1 := strings.TrimSpace(rNodeStrings[i])
+		s2 := strings.TrimSpace(bigMapStrings[i])
+		if s1 != s2 {
+			t.Fatalf("expected '%s'=='%s'", s1, s2)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestRoundTripJSON(t *testing.T) {
+	wn := NewWNode()
+	err := wn.UnmarshalJSON([]byte(deploymentLittleJson))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected UnmarshalJSON err: %v", err)
+	}
+	data, err := wn.MarshalJSON()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected MarshalJSON err: %v", err)
+	}
+	actual := string(data)
+	if actual != deploymentLittleJson {
+		t.Fatalf("expected %s, got %s", deploymentLittleJson, actual)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestGettingFields(t *testing.T) {
+	wn := NewWNode()
+	err := wn.UnmarshalJSON([]byte(deploymentBiggerJson))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected unmarshaljson err: %v", err)
+	}
+	gvk := wn.GetGvk()
+	expected := "apps"
+	actual := gvk.Group
+	if expected != actual {
+		t.Fatalf("expected '%s', got '%s'", expected, actual)
+	}
+	expected = "v1"
+	actual = gvk.Version
+	if expected != actual {
+		t.Fatalf("expected '%s', got '%s'", expected, actual)
+	}
+	expected = "Deployment"
+	actual = gvk.Kind
+	if expected != actual {
+		t.Fatalf("expected '%s', got '%s'", expected, actual)
+	}
+	actual = wn.GetKind()
+	if expected != actual {
+		t.Fatalf("expected '%s', got '%s'", expected, actual)
+	}
+	expected = "homer"
+	actual = wn.GetName()
+	if expected != actual {
+		t.Fatalf("expected '%s', got '%s'", expected, actual)
+	}
+	actualMap := wn.GetLabels()
+	v, ok := actualMap["fruit"]
+	if !ok || v != "apple" {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected labels '%v'", actualMap)
+	}
+	actualMap = wn.GetAnnotations()
+	v, ok = actualMap["greeting"]
+	if !ok || v != "Take me to your leader." {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected annotations '%v'", actualMap)
+	}
+}

api/k8sdeps/kunstruct/factory.go

@@ -17,7 +17,11 @@ import (
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/types"
 )
 
-// KunstructuredFactoryImpl hides construction using apimachinery types.
+// KunstructuredFactoryImpl makes instances of UnstructAdapter.
+// These instances in turn adapt structs in
+//   k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1/unstructured
+// to implement ifc.Kunstructured.
+// This factory is meant to implement ifc.KunstructuredFactory.
 type KunstructuredFactoryImpl struct {
 	hasher *kustHash
 }

api/k8sdeps/kunstruct/hasher.go

@@ -4,13 +4,9 @@
 package kunstruct
 
 import (
-	"encoding/json"
-	"fmt"
-
-	corev1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
-	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1/unstructured"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/hasher"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/ifc"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml/filtersutil"
 )
 
 // kustHash computes a hash of an unstructured object.
@@ -21,103 +17,11 @@ func NewKustHash() *kustHash {
 	return &kustHash{}
 }
 
-// Hash returns a hash of either a ConfigMap or a Secret
+// Hash returns a hash of the given object
 func (h *kustHash) Hash(m ifc.Kunstructured) (string, error) {
-	u := unstructured.Unstructured{
+	node, err := filtersutil.GetRNode(m)
-		Object: m.Map(),
-	}
-	kind := u.GetKind()
-	switch kind {
-	case "ConfigMap":
-		cm, err := unstructuredToConfigmap(u)
-		if err != nil {
-			return "", err
-		}
-		return configMapHash(cm)
-	case "Secret":
-		sec, err := unstructuredToSecret(u)
-
-		if err != nil {
-			return "", err
-		}
-		return secretHash(sec)
-	default:
-		return "", fmt.Errorf(
-			"type %s is not supported for hashing in %v",
-			kind, m.Map())
-	}
-}
-
-// configMapHash returns a hash of the ConfigMap.
-// The Data, Kind, and Name are taken into account.
-func configMapHash(cm *corev1.ConfigMap) (string, error) {
-	encoded, err := encodeConfigMap(cm)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
-	h, err := hasher.Encode(hasher.Hash(encoded))
+	return hasher.HashRNode(node)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	}
-	return h, nil
-}
-
-// SecretHash returns a hash of the Secret.
-// The Data, Kind, Name, and Type are taken into account.
-func secretHash(sec *corev1.Secret) (string, error) {
-	encoded, err := encodeSecret(sec)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	}
-	h, err := hasher.Encode(hasher.Hash(encoded))
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	}
-	return h, nil
-}
-
-// encodeConfigMap encodes a ConfigMap.
-// Data, Kind, and Name are taken into account.
-func encodeConfigMap(cm *corev1.ConfigMap) (string, error) {
-	// json.Marshal sorts the keys in a stable order in the encoding
-	m := map[string]interface{}{"kind": "ConfigMap", "name": cm.Name, "data": cm.Data}
-	if len(cm.BinaryData) > 0 {
-		m["binaryData"] = cm.BinaryData
-	}
-	data, err := json.Marshal(m)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	}
-	return string(data), nil
-}
-
-// encodeSecret encodes a Secret.
-// Data, Kind, Name, and Type are taken into account.
-func encodeSecret(sec *corev1.Secret) (string, error) {
-	// json.Marshal sorts the keys in a stable order in the encoding
-	data, err := json.Marshal(map[string]interface{}{"kind": "Secret", "type": sec.Type, "name": sec.Name, "data": sec.Data})
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	}
-	return string(data), nil
-}
-
-func unstructuredToConfigmap(u unstructured.Unstructured) (*corev1.ConfigMap, error) {
-	marshaled, err := json.Marshal(u.Object)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	var out corev1.ConfigMap
-	err = json.Unmarshal(marshaled, &out)
-	return &out, err
-}
-
-func unstructuredToSecret(u unstructured.Unstructured) (*corev1.Secret, error) {
-	marshaled, err := json.Marshal(u.Object)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	var out corev1.Secret
-	err = json.Unmarshal(marshaled, &out)
-	return &out, err
 }

api/k8sdeps/kunstruct/hasher_test.go

@@ -1,180 +1,34 @@
-// Copyright 2019 The Kubernetes Authors.
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
 package kunstruct
 
 import (
-	"reflect"
-	"strings"
 	"testing"
-
-	corev1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
 )
 
-func TestConfigMapHash(t *testing.T) {
+func TestHasher(t *testing.T) {
-	cases := []struct {
+	input := `
-		desc string
+apiVersion: v1
-		cm   *corev1.ConfigMap
+kind: ConfigMap
-		hash string
+metadata:
-		err  string
+  name: foo
-	}{
+data:
-		// empty map
+  one: ""
-		{"empty data", &corev1.ConfigMap{Data: map[string]string{}, BinaryData: map[string][]byte{}}, "42745tchd9", ""},
+binaryData:
-		// one key
+  two: ""
-		{"one key", &corev1.ConfigMap{Data: map[string]string{"one": ""}}, "9g67k2htb6", ""},
-		// three keys (tests sorting order)
-		{"three keys", &corev1.ConfigMap{Data: map[string]string{"two": "2", "one": "", "three": "3"}}, "f5h7t85m9b", ""},
-		// empty binary data map
-		{"empty binary data", &corev1.ConfigMap{BinaryData: map[string][]byte{}}, "dk855m5d49", ""},
-		// one key with binary data
-		{"one key with binary data", &corev1.ConfigMap{BinaryData: map[string][]byte{"one": []byte("")}}, "mk79584b8c", ""},
-		// three keys with binary data (tests sorting order)
-		{"three keys with binary data", &corev1.ConfigMap{BinaryData: map[string][]byte{"two": []byte("2"), "one": []byte(""), "three": []byte("3")}}, "t458mc6db2", ""},
-		// two keys, one with string and another with binary data
-		{"two keys with one each", &corev1.ConfigMap{Data: map[string]string{"one": ""}, BinaryData: map[string][]byte{"two": []byte("")}}, "698h7c7t9m", ""},
-	}
-
-	for _, c := range cases {
-		h, err := configMapHash(c.cm)
-		if SkipRest(t, c.desc, err, c.err) {
-			continue
-		}
-		if c.hash != h {
-			t.Errorf("case %q, expect hash %q but got %q", c.desc, c.hash, h)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestSecretHash(t *testing.T) {
-	cases := []struct {
-		desc   string
-		secret *corev1.Secret
-		hash   string
-		err    string
-	}{
-		// empty map
-		{"empty data", &corev1.Secret{Type: "my-type", Data: map[string][]byte{}}, "t75bgf6ctb", ""},
-		// one key
-		{"one key", &corev1.Secret{Type: "my-type", Data: map[string][]byte{"one": []byte("")}}, "74bd68bm66", ""},
-		// three keys (tests sorting order)
-		{"three keys", &corev1.Secret{Type: "my-type", Data: map[string][]byte{"two": []byte("2"), "one": []byte(""), "three": []byte("3")}}, "dgcb6h9tmk", ""},
-	}
-
-	for _, c := range cases {
-		h, err := secretHash(c.secret)
-		if SkipRest(t, c.desc, err, c.err) {
-			continue
-		}
-		if c.hash != h {
-			t.Errorf("case %q, expect hash %q but got %q", c.desc, c.hash, h)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestEncodeConfigMap(t *testing.T) {
-	cases := []struct {
-		desc   string
-		cm     *corev1.ConfigMap
-		expect string
-		err    string
-	}{
-		// empty map
-		{"empty data", &corev1.ConfigMap{Data: map[string]string{}}, `{"data":{},"kind":"ConfigMap","name":""}`, ""},
-		// one key
-		{"one key", &corev1.ConfigMap{Data: map[string]string{"one": ""}}, `{"data":{"one":""},"kind":"ConfigMap","name":""}`, ""},
-		// three keys (tests sorting order)
-		{"three keys", &corev1.ConfigMap{Data: map[string]string{"two": "2", "one": "", "three": "3"}},
-			`{"data":{"one":"","three":"3","two":"2"},"kind":"ConfigMap","name":""}`, ""},
-		// empty binary map
-		{"empty data", &corev1.ConfigMap{BinaryData: map[string][]byte{}}, `{"data":null,"kind":"ConfigMap","name":""}`, ""},
-		// one key with binary data
-		{"one key", &corev1.ConfigMap{BinaryData: map[string][]byte{"one": []byte("")}},
-			`{"binaryData":{"one":""},"data":null,"kind":"ConfigMap","name":""}`, ""},
-		// three keys with binary data (tests sorting order)
-		{"three keys", &corev1.ConfigMap{BinaryData: map[string][]byte{"two": []byte("2"), "one": []byte(""), "three": []byte("3")}},
-			`{"binaryData":{"one":"","three":"Mw==","two":"Mg=="},"data":null,"kind":"ConfigMap","name":""}`, ""},
-		// two keys, one string and one binary values
-		{"two keys with one each", &corev1.ConfigMap{Data: map[string]string{"one": ""}, BinaryData: map[string][]byte{"two": []byte("")}},
-			`{"binaryData":{"two":""},"data":{"one":""},"kind":"ConfigMap","name":""}`, ""},
-	}
-	for _, c := range cases {
-		s, err := encodeConfigMap(c.cm)
-		if SkipRest(t, c.desc, err, c.err) {
-			continue
-		}
-		if s != c.expect {
-			t.Errorf("case %q, expect %q but got %q from encode %#v", c.desc, c.expect, s, c.cm)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestEncodeSecret(t *testing.T) {
-	cases := []struct {
-		desc   string
-		secret *corev1.Secret
-		expect string
-		err    string
-	}{
-		// empty map
-		{"empty data", &corev1.Secret{Type: "my-type", Data: map[string][]byte{}}, `{"data":{},"kind":"Secret","name":"","type":"my-type"}`, ""},
-		// one key
-		{"one key", &corev1.Secret{Type: "my-type", Data: map[string][]byte{"one": []byte("")}}, `{"data":{"one":""},"kind":"Secret","name":"","type":"my-type"}`, ""},
-		// three keys (tests sorting order) - note json.Marshal base64 encodes the values because they come in as []byte
-		{"three keys", &corev1.Secret{
-			Type: "my-type",
-			Data: map[string][]byte{"two": []byte("2"), "one": []byte(""), "three": []byte("3")},
-		},
-			`{"data":{"one":"","three":"Mw==","two":"Mg=="},"kind":"Secret","name":"","type":"my-type"}`, ""},
-	}
-	for _, c := range cases {
-		s, err := encodeSecret(c.secret)
-		if SkipRest(t, c.desc, err, c.err) {
-			continue
-		}
-		if s != c.expect {
-			t.Errorf("case %q, expect %q but got %q from encode %#v", c.desc, c.expect, s, c.secret)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// warn devs who change types that they might have to update a hash function
-// not perfect, as it only checks the number of top-level fields
-func TestTypeStability(t *testing.T) {
-	errfmt := `case %q, expected %d fields but got %d
-Depending on the field(s) you added, you may need to modify the hash function for this type.
-To guide you: the hash function targets fields that comprise the contents of objects,
-not their metadata (e.g. the Data of a ConfigMap, but nothing in ObjectMeta).
 `
-	cases := []struct {
+	expect := "698h7c7t9m"
-		typeName string
-		obj      interface{}
-		expect   int
-	}{
-		{"ConfigMap", corev1.ConfigMap{}, 4},
-		{"Secret", corev1.Secret{}, 5},
-	}
-	for _, c := range cases {
-		val := reflect.ValueOf(c.obj)
-		if num := val.NumField(); c.expect != num {
-			t.Errorf(errfmt, c.typeName, c.expect, num)
-		}
-	}
-}
 
-// SkipRest returns true if there was a non-nil error or if we expected an error that didn't happen,
+	factory := NewKunstructuredFactoryImpl()
-// and logs the appropriate error on the test object.
+	k, err := factory.SliceFromBytes([]byte(input))
-// The return value indicates whether we should skip the rest of the test case due to the error result.
-func SkipRest(t *testing.T, desc string, err error, contains string) bool {
 	if err != nil {
-		if len(contains) == 0 {
+		t.Fatal(err)
-			t.Errorf("case %q, expect nil error but got %q", desc, err.Error())
+	}
-		} else if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), contains) {
+
-			t.Errorf("case %q, expect error to contain %q but got %q", desc, contains, err.Error())
+	hasher := NewKustHash()
-		}
+	result, err := hasher.Hash(k[0])
-		return true
+	if err != nil {
-	} else if len(contains) > 0 {
+		t.Fatal(err)
-		t.Errorf("case %q, expect error to contain %q but got nil error", desc, contains)
+	}
-		return true
+	if result != expect {
+		t.Fatalf("expect %s but got %s", expect, result)
 	}
-	return false
 }

api/k8sdeps/kunstruct/unstructadapter_test.go

@@ -466,278 +466,6 @@ func TestGetString(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestGetInt64(t *testing.T) {
-	tests := []struct {
-		name          string
-		pathToField   string
-		expectedValue int64
-		errorExpected bool
-		errorMsg      string
-	}{
-		{
-			name:          "numberAsValue",
-			pathToField:   "this.is.aNumber",
-			errorExpected: false,
-			expectedValue: int64(1000),
-		},
-		{
-			name:          "validStructSubFieldIndexSubfield",
-			pathToField:   "complextree[1].field2[1].intsubfield",
-			errorExpected: false,
-			expectedValue: int64(1121),
-		},
-		{
-			name:          "twoFieldsOneMissing",
-			pathToField:   "metadata.banana",
-			errorExpected: true,
-			errorMsg:      "no field named 'metadata.banana'",
-		},
-		{
-			name:          "validStructSubFieldOutOfBoundIndex",
-			pathToField:   "these[1].field2[99]",
-			errorExpected: true,
-			errorMsg:      "no field named 'these[1].field2[99]'",
-		},
-		{
-			name:          "validDownwardAPISpecs",
-			pathToField:   `spec.ports['port']`,
-			errorExpected: false,
-			expectedValue: int64(80),
-		},
-	}
-
-	for _, test := range tests {
-		s, err := kunstructured.GetInt64(test.pathToField)
-		if test.errorExpected {
-			compareExpectedError(t, test.name, test.pathToField, err, test.errorMsg)
-			continue
-		}
-		if err != nil {
-			unExpectedError(t, test.name, test.pathToField, err)
-		}
-		compareValues(t, test.name, test.pathToField, test.expectedValue, s)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestGetFloat64(t *testing.T) {
-	tests := []struct {
-		name          string
-		pathToField   string
-		expectedValue float64
-		errorExpected bool
-		errorMsg      string
-	}{
-		{
-			name:          "floatAsValue",
-			pathToField:   "this.is.aFloat",
-			errorExpected: false,
-			expectedValue: float64(1.001),
-		},
-		{
-			name:          "validStructSubFieldIndexSubfield",
-			pathToField:   "complextree[1].field2[1].floatsubfield",
-			errorExpected: false,
-			expectedValue: float64(1.1121),
-		},
-		{
-			name:          "validDownwardAPIThis",
-			pathToField:   `this.is[aFloat]`,
-			errorExpected: false,
-			expectedValue: float64(1.001),
-		},
-		{
-			name:          "twoFieldsOneMissing",
-			pathToField:   "metadata.banana",
-			errorExpected: true,
-			errorMsg:      "no field named 'metadata.banana'",
-		},
-		{
-			name:          "validStructSubFieldOutOfBoundIndex",
-			pathToField:   "these[1].field2[99]",
-			errorExpected: true,
-			errorMsg:      "index 99 is out of bounds",
-		},
-	}
-
-	for _, test := range tests {
-		s, err := kunstructured.GetFloat64(test.pathToField)
-		if test.errorExpected {
-			compareExpectedError(t, test.name, test.pathToField, err, test.errorMsg)
-			continue
-		}
-		if err != nil {
-			unExpectedError(t, test.name, test.pathToField, err)
-		}
-		compareValues(t, test.name, test.pathToField, test.expectedValue, s)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestGetBool(t *testing.T) {
-	tests := []struct {
-		name          string
-		pathToField   string
-		expectedValue bool
-		errorExpected bool
-		errorMsg      string
-	}{
-		{
-			name:          "boolAsValue",
-			pathToField:   "this.is.aBool",
-			errorExpected: false,
-			expectedValue: true,
-		},
-		{
-			name:          "validStructSubFieldIndexSubfield",
-			pathToField:   "complextree[1].field2[1].boolfield",
-			errorExpected: false,
-			expectedValue: false,
-		},
-		{
-			name:          "twoFieldsOneMissing",
-			pathToField:   "metadata.banana",
-			errorExpected: true,
-			errorMsg:      "no field named 'metadata.banana'",
-		},
-		{
-			name:          "validStructSubFieldOutOfBoundIndex",
-			pathToField:   "these[1].field2[99]",
-			errorExpected: true,
-			errorMsg:      "no field named 'these[1].field2[99]'",
-		},
-	}
-
-	for _, test := range tests {
-		s, err := kunstructured.GetBool(test.pathToField)
-		if test.errorExpected {
-			compareExpectedError(t, test.name, test.pathToField, err, test.errorMsg)
-			continue
-		}
-		if err != nil {
-			unExpectedError(t, test.name, test.pathToField, err)
-		}
-		compareValues(t, test.name, test.pathToField, test.expectedValue, s)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestGetStringMap(t *testing.T) {
-	tests := []struct {
-		name          string
-		pathToField   string
-		errorExpected bool
-		errorMsg      string
-	}{
-		{
-			name:          "validStringMap",
-			pathToField:   "those[2]",
-			errorExpected: false,
-		},
-		{
-			name:          "twoFieldsOneMissing",
-			pathToField:   "metadata.banana",
-			errorExpected: true,
-			errorMsg:      "no field named 'metadata.banana'",
-		},
-		{
-			name:          "validStructSubFieldOutOfBoundIndex",
-			pathToField:   "these[1].field2[99]",
-			errorExpected: true,
-			errorMsg:      "no field named 'these[1].field2[99]'",
-		},
-	}
-
-	for _, test := range tests {
-		_, err := kunstructured.GetStringMap(test.pathToField)
-		if test.errorExpected {
-			compareExpectedError(t, test.name, test.pathToField, err, test.errorMsg)
-			continue
-		}
-		if err != nil {
-			unExpectedError(t, test.name, test.pathToField, err)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestGetMap(t *testing.T) {
-	tests := []struct {
-		name          string
-		pathToField   string
-		errorExpected bool
-		errorMsg      string
-	}{
-		{
-			name:          "validMap",
-			pathToField:   "those[2]",
-			errorExpected: false,
-		},
-		{
-			name:          "validStructSubFieldIndexSubfield",
-			pathToField:   "complextree[1].field2[1]",
-			errorExpected: false,
-		},
-		{
-			name:          "twoFieldsOneMissing",
-			pathToField:   "metadata.banana",
-			errorExpected: true,
-			errorMsg:      "no field named 'metadata.banana'",
-		},
-		{
-			name:          "validStructSubFieldOutOfBoundIndex",
-			pathToField:   "these[1].field2[99]",
-			errorExpected: true,
-			errorMsg:      "no field named 'these[1].field2[99]'",
-		},
-	}
-
-	for _, test := range tests {
-		_, err := kunstructured.GetMap(test.pathToField)
-		if test.errorExpected {
-			compareExpectedError(t, test.name, test.pathToField, err, test.errorMsg)
-			continue
-		}
-		if err != nil {
-			unExpectedError(t, test.name, test.pathToField, err)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestGetStringSlice(t *testing.T) {
-	tests := []struct {
-		name          string
-		pathToField   string
-		errorExpected bool
-		errorMsg      string
-	}{
-		{
-			name:          "validStringSlice",
-			pathToField:   "that",
-			errorExpected: false,
-		},
-		{
-			name:          "twoFieldsOneMissing",
-			pathToField:   "metadata.banana",
-			errorExpected: true,
-			errorMsg:      "no field named 'metadata.banana'",
-		},
-		{
-			name:          "validStructSubFieldOutOfBoundIndex",
-			pathToField:   "these[1].field2[99]",
-			errorExpected: true,
-			errorMsg:      "no field named 'these[1].field2[99]'",
-		},
-	}
-
-	for _, test := range tests {
-		_, err := kunstructured.GetStringSlice(test.pathToField)
-		if test.errorExpected {
-			compareExpectedError(t, test.name, test.pathToField, err, test.errorMsg)
-			continue
-		}
-		if err != nil {
-			unExpectedError(t, test.name, test.pathToField, err)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
 func TestGetSlice(t *testing.T) {
 	tests := []struct {
 		name          string

api/k8sdeps/validator/kustvalidator.go

@@ -14,11 +14,14 @@ import (
 	v1validation "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1/validation"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/validation"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/validation/field"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/ifc"
 )
 
 // KustValidator validates Labels and annotations by apimachinery
 type KustValidator struct{}
 
+var _ ifc.Validator = (*KustValidator)(nil)
+
 // NewKustValidator returns a KustValidator object
 func NewKustValidator() *KustValidator {
 	return &KustValidator{}

api/konfig/builtinpluginconsts/images.go

@@ -4,7 +4,15 @@
 package builtinpluginconsts
 
 const (
-	// imageFieldSpecs is left empty since `containers` and `initContainers`
+	imagesFieldSpecs = `
-	// of *ANY* kind in *ANY* path are builtin supported in code
+images:
-	imagesFieldSpecs = ``
+- path: spec/containers[]/image
+  create: true
+- path: spec/initContainers[]/image
+  create: true
+- path: spec/template/spec/containers[]/image
+  create: true
+- path: spec/template/spec/initContainers[]/image
+  create: true
+`
 )

api/konfig/builtinpluginconsts/namereference.go

@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ nameReference:
   - path: spec/scaleTargetRef/name
     kind: HorizontalPodAutoscaler
 
+- kind: StatefulSet
+  fieldSpecs:
+  - path: spec/scaleTargetRef/name
+    kind: HorizontalPodAutoscaler
+
 - kind: ConfigMap
   version: v1
   fieldSpecs:
@@ -247,6 +252,10 @@ nameReference:
     kind: Role
   - path: rules/resourceNames
     kind: ClusterRole
+  - path: spec/template/spec/containers/env/valueFrom/secretKeyRef/name
+    kind: Service
+    group: serving.knative.dev
+    version: v1
 
 - kind: Service
   version: v1

api/konfig/builtinpluginconsts/namespace.go

@@ -8,9 +8,16 @@ const (
 namespace:
 - path: metadata/namespace
   create: true
+- path: metadata/name
+  kind: Namespace
+  create: true
 - path: subjects
   kind: RoleBinding
 - path: subjects
   kind: ClusterRoleBinding
+- path: spec/service/namespace
+  group: apiregistration.k8s.io
+  kind: APIService
+  create: true
 `
 )