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This change adds logic to understand and interpret k8s:immutable tag in controller-gen. This tag is getting introduced for native types in K8s as part of 5073-declarative-validation-with-validation-gen KEP.

On detecting the tag, A CEL validation is added for the corresponding field.

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func (Immutable) ApplyToSchema(schema *apiext.JSONSchemaProps) error {
schema.XValidations = append(schema.XValidations, apiext.ValidationRule{
Message: "Value is immutable",
Rule: "self == oldSelf",
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Won't this error out in the create case as oldSelf will be undefined?

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It won't, there is always a "oldSelf" since the rule is attached to the field and only takes effect when the field exists.

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since the rule is attached to the field and only takes effect when the field exists.

Not quite true, but it's still safe.

Rules that include oldSelf are known as transition rules, and the CEL implementation detects that a rule is a transition rule.

It will only run a transition rule when it has a value for both self and oldSelf. So only on updates, not when the field first appears.

But, you could have a rule without oldSelf, in which case, the rule would run even when the field first appears.

There's also optionalOldSelf which allows transition rules to run when there is no value for oldSelf, but you have to handle those differently.

Which brings me to... The semantic here is that I could have an object with a field we say is immutable. What does it actually mean to be immutable?

There are two interpretations IMO:

  • Once a value has been set for X, it cannot be changed (omitted -> set is allowed on updated)
  • Value for X can only be set on create (omitted counts as a value)

This implements the first of those, how does it work in the declarative validation project?

If it is the latter, we would need an optionalOldSelf rule and implement a different validation rule

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/cc @aaron-prindle
PTAL if this align with stand alone +k8s:immutable tag in latest design.

func (Immutable) ApplyToSchema(schema *apiext.JSONSchemaProps) error {
schema.XValidations = append(schema.XValidations, apiext.ValidationRule{
Message: "Value is immutable",
Rule: "self == oldSelf",

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It won't, there is always a "oldSelf" since the rule is attached to the field and only takes effect when the field exists.

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