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What this PR does / why we need it:

Adds the RFC 6902 JSON Patch variant to support/statuspatching while keeping the existing JSON Merge Patch helper as the default for ordinary status updates.

JSON Patch uses an explicit value: null, so required nullable status fields are preserved instead of being interpreted as field deletion by JSON Merge Patch. The existing HCP status reconciler now uses the shared helper instead of its private JSON-patch builder.

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:

Part of CNTRLPLANE-3532.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved status updates to preserve nullable fields, including completion times and available update information.
    • Added resource-version checks and retry handling to make concurrent status updates more reliable and prevent stale updates from overwriting newer information.
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    • Added coverage for status update retries, conflicts, missing resources, mutation errors, no-op changes, field removal, JSON pointer escaping, and nullable fields.

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What this PR does / why we need it:

Adds the RFC 6902 JSON Patch variant to support/statuspatching while keeping the existing JSON Merge Patch helper as the default for ordinary status updates.

JSON Patch uses an explicit value: null, so required nullable status fields are preserved instead of being interpreted as field deletion by JSON Merge Patch. The existing HCP status reconciler now uses the shared helper instead of its private JSON-patch builder.

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Part of CNTRLPLANE-3532.

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The shared statuspatching package now provides PatchStatusWithJSONPatch. It refetches objects, applies status mutations, skips unchanged status, builds RFC 6902 patches, checks resource versions, and retries conflicts and HTTP 422 test failures. It preserves nullable status fields. hcpStatusReconciler now uses this helper. Its local patch builder and related tests were removed. New tests cover patch payloads, retries, errors, missing objects, and nullable fields.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant HCPStatusReconciler
  participant PatchStatusWithJSONPatch
  participant KubernetesAPI
  HCPStatusReconciler->>PatchStatusWithJSONPatch: reconcile and mutate HCP status
  PatchStatusWithJSONPatch->>KubernetesAPI: refetch HCP
  PatchStatusWithJSONPatch->>PatchStatusWithJSONPatch: build JSON Patch
  PatchStatusWithJSONPatch->>KubernetesAPI: patch status with resourceVersion test
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The shared JSON Patch status helper preserves nullable status values and adds bounded conflict handling; current coverage reports no unresolved merge-readiness risk.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: adding a JSON Patch status helper for CNTRLPLANE-3532. It is concise and specific.
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Stable And Deterministic Test Names ✅ Passed The changed tests use Go testing, not Ginkgo. All added Test... names and t.Run table names are static string literals. They do not include generated names, timestamps, UUIDs, node names, namesp…
Test Structure And Quality ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request adds standard Go tests using testing.T, t.Run, and NewWithT; it adds no Ginkgo It, BeforeEach, AfterEach, Eventually, or Consistently blocks. The tests use fake …
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request changes status reconciliation and JSON Patch generation only. The actual diff contains four Go files and no deployment manifests. The controller now calls `statuspatching.PatchS…
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request adds only standard Go unit tests in the changed test files. It adds no Ginkgo It, Describe, Context, or When tests. The tests use fake clients and local status objects. …
No-Weak-Crypto ✅ Passed The pull request introduces no MD5, SHA1, DES, 3DES, RC4, Blowfish, or ECB usage. It adds JSON Patch and status serialization only. The new bytes.Equal calls compare serialized status fields, not se…
Container-Privileges ✅ Passed The pull request changes only four Go source/test files. It adds no container or Kubernetes manifest. Added lines contain none of privileged: true, hostPID, hostNetwork, hostIPC, SYS_ADMIN, …
No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs ✅ Passed No sensitive-data logging was introduced. The new statuspatching helper contains no log calls. The HCP controller removes two status patch log messages and keeps only the existing constant completion …
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In `@support/statuspatching/statuspatching.go`:
- Line 59: Update the RetryOnConflict flow in the status patching method to
recognize kube-apiserver’s HTTP 422 response for failed JSON Patch test
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support/statuspatching/statuspatching.go (1)

78-78: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Restrict apierrors.IsInvalid to resourceVersion test failures.

PatchStatusWithJSONPatch wraps every patchErr for which apierrors.IsInvalid is true, and retry.OnError retries that wrapper. Kubernetes maps HTTP 422 to StatusReasonInvalid, so non-conflict 422 responses also repeat the fetch/mutate/patch cycle and incur retry.DefaultBackoff before returning the same error. Match the /metadata/resourceVersion test failure before wrapping the error, or remove apierrors.IsInvalid if only 409 conflicts should be retried.

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In `@support/statuspatching/statuspatching.go` at line 78, Restrict the
retryable-error handling in PatchStatusWithJSONPatch to resourceVersion test
failures: only wrap an invalid patch error when it targets
/metadata/resourceVersion, while preserving conflict retries. Do not classify
unrelated HTTP 422 StatusReasonInvalid responses as retryable.
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In `@support/statuspatching/statuspatching.go`:
- Around line 132-143: Update the status patch builder to use the status-field
count when deciding between adding the whole status object and individual
fields: when the original status has no fields and the modified status does,
emit a single add operation at /status before adding nested paths. Add a
typed-object test covering an empty original status and asserting exactly one
add /status operation.

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In `@support/statuspatching/statuspatching.go`:
- Line 78: Restrict the retryable-error handling in PatchStatusWithJSONPatch to
resourceVersion test failures: only wrap an invalid patch error when it targets
/metadata/resourceVersion, while preserving conflict retries. Do not classify
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For the retry nit: the 422 retry remains scoped to errors returned by Status().Patch(); Get and mutate errors are not retried. Current kube-apiserver maps JSON Patch application failures to StatusReasonInvalid without identifying the failed operation, so matching only /metadata/resourceVersion would miss the actual 422 test failure. The retry is bounded.

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support/statuspatching/statuspatching_test.go (1)

462-462: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add coverage for exhausted retries.

PatchStatusWithJSONPatch unwraps jsonPatchRetryError before it returns. No test exercises that path, because both retry tests succeed on the second attempt. Add a case where the injected error is returned on every attempt. Assert apierrors.IsConflict(err) is true and that the returned error is not the wrapper. This locks the error contract that callers use.

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In `@support/statuspatching/statuspatching_test.go` at line 462, Add an
exhausted-retry case alongside
TestPatchStatusWithJSONPatch_RetryOnJSONPatchTestFailure where the injected
error occurs on every attempt; assert apierrors.IsConflict(err) is true and
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In `@support/statuspatching/statuspatching_test.go`:
- Line 63: Update the scheme setup in
TestPatchStatusWithJSONPatch_NullableFields to handle the error returned by
hyperv1.AddToScheme instead of discarding it; use the existing test setup’s
fail-fast mechanism or utilruntime.Must so registration failures stop the test
immediately.

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In `@support/statuspatching/statuspatching_test.go`:
- Line 462: Add an exhausted-retry case alongside
TestPatchStatusWithJSONPatch_RetryOnJSONPatchTestFailure where the injected
error occurs on every attempt; assert apierrors.IsConflict(err) is true and
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Signed-off-by: Vivek Solanki <vsolanki@redhat.com>
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we already agreed that we don't want to expose this as a shared helper in the original PR
#8782 (comment)

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