fix: Allow patches with empty files with multiple newlines or comments

[jchanam]

Fixes #5487

Right now, when a file is empty, the patches given by the resmap (sm patches) or the jsonpatch is nil. When the file has only comments in it (virtually empty if we think about changes to be made) or multiple newlines, the result given by said functions is an empty slice.

I've changed the check for when we can't allow to have a patch that is valid for both SM and JSON, so it allows empty changes (both nil or empty slices).

Extra comments:

• I think that it'd be better to change the functions and return a nil object, instead of an empty slice, but I'm unsure on where to do those changes.
• Also, I can't make the tests to run locally as they complain for the content file to be empty, and that should not be the case as it's perfectly ok for the built binary to use empty patches.

I'll be more than happy to work on these two with some help or guidance.

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[jchanam]

Hi @stormqueen1990 @varshaprasad96,

Could I get some help in getting this approved?

Thank you!

[stormqueen1990]

Hi @stormqueen1990 @varshaprasad96,

Could I get some help in getting this approved?

Thank you!

Hi there, @jchanam!

I am taking a look at this and got a bit confused with the comment you made in the PR description about the tests. Do you mean that tests are currently failing locally?

[stormqueen1990]

/test all

[jchanam]

Hi @stormqueen1990 ,

Yes, I meant that. It looks like there are a test checking if the input is not empty, but the goal of my code is testing specifically that, as it should not fail. If we add a file to kustomize that is empty, it should simply not produce any output, instead of failing.

Also, now the tests here say that there's a diff found on the file I've modified. How can I fix that or change extra code so the tests continue?

Thank you!

[stormqueen1990]

/test all

[jchanam]

@stormqueen1990 Sorry for the late response. I think I was able to follow your guidance and fix the tests.

[jchanam]

/retest

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@stormqueen1990 Sorry for the late response. I think I was able to follow your guidance and fix the tests.

Hi there, @jchanam! Thanks for updating this!

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/retest

[jchanam]

@stormqueen1990 looks like the tests were not run. Could you please force them in any way? thank you!

[jchanam]

@stormqueen1990 Could you please help me with the linter errors?

Error: plugin/builtin/patchtransformer/PatchTransformer_test.go:1128:29: test helper function should start from t.Helper() (thelper)
`, someDeploymentResources, func(t *testing.T, err error) {
                            ^
Error: plugin/builtin/patchtransformer/PatchTransformer_test.go:1154:29: test helper function should start from t.Helper() (thelper)
`, someDeploymentResources, func(t *testing.T, err error) {

I don't understand why it's complaining when I've followed the same structure as for other tests

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@stormqueen1990 Could you please help me with the linter errors?

Error: plugin/builtin/patchtransformer/PatchTransformer_test.go:1128:29: test helper function should start from t.Helper() (thelper)
`, someDeploymentResources, func(t *testing.T, err error) {
                            ^
Error: plugin/builtin/patchtransformer/PatchTransformer_test.go:1154:29: test helper function should start from t.Helper() (thelper)
`, someDeploymentResources, func(t *testing.T, err error) {

I don't understand why it's complaining when I've followed the same structure as for other tests

Hi @jchanam, our linter requires test helper functions to have an invocation to t.Helper() at the beginning. You just need to add that statement as the first statement in the helper function. This is standard Go, you can read more about it here: https://pkg.go.dev/testing#T.Helper. I apologize for not seeing (and flagging) it earlier.

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[jchanam]

@stormqueen1990 Thank you so much for the explanation! I've just added them and pushed the changes.

[stormqueen1990]

/lgtm