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Description

This PR fixes #1097.

convertPathToSjsonPath joined patch path segments with a bare strings.Join(path, "."). sjson treats every unescaped dot as a separator, so a segment that is itself a dotted key - Kubernetes annotation/label keys like cert-manager.io/cluster-issuer or kubernetes.io/service-name - was split into nested objects instead of written as one literal key, silently corrupting the patched component configuration whenever such a relationship was applied.

Changes

  • Escape gjson/sjson path specials (\, ., *, ?, |, #, @) per segment before joining, making every segment a literal key. Segments without specials are unchanged, so existing corpus behavior is preserved.
  • Tests: literal dotted annotation/label keys land as single keys (and are not additionally nested), plain segments unchanged, escape table.

Context

Surfaced by review of the meshery/meshery Ingress + cert-manager relationship coverage work (meshery/meshery#21482): the ingress-shim annotation relationships patch metadata.annotations["cert-manager.io/cluster-issuer"], and the in-tree corpus already carries dotted-key paths.

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  • go build ./... - clean

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed patch application for keys containing dots, colons, and other path-special characters.
    • Preserved literal Kubernetes annotation and label keys during updates.
    • Improved handling of keys containing wildcards, backslashes, question marks, pipes, hashes, and at-signs.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for plain path segments and special-character keys, including colons and backslashes, to help ensure reliable patch behavior.

convertPathToSjsonPath joined relationship patch path segments with a
bare strings.Join(path, "."), so a segment that is itself a dotted
key - Kubernetes annotation and label keys such as
cert-manager.io/cluster-issuer or kubernetes.io/service-name - was
split by sjson into nested objects instead of being written as one
literal key, silently corrupting the patched configuration (an
annotations map gained a nested object where a string belongs).

Escape gjson/sjson path specials per segment before joining so every
segment is a literal key. Segments without specials are byte-identical
after escaping, leaving the existing corpus behavior unchanged.

Fixes #1097

Signed-off-by: Arjun Mehta <231106746+arjunmehta-git@users.noreply.github.com>
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The patch path conversion now escapes SJSON/GJSON special characters, colons, and backslashes in each path segment. Tests verify ordinary paths, dotted Kubernetes annotation and label keys, and special-character escapes.

Changes

Patch path escaping

Layer / File(s) Summary
Escape and validate literal path segments
utils/patching/patch.go, utils/patching/patch_test.go
convertPathToSjsonPath escapes special characters, colons, and backslashes before joining path segments. Tests cover ordinary paths, dotted annotation and label keys, and supported SJSON key characters.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to e803b

The change makes dotted and other special-character path segments resolve as literal keys while preserving plain segments; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 57.14% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly describes the main change: escaping SJSON path-special characters in patch path segments.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #1097 by escaping required SJSON specials, preserving plain segments, and testing dotted Kubernetes keys.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The implementation and tests are directly related to fixing dotted patch path handling described in issue #1097.
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Inline comments:
In `@utils/patching/patch.go`:
- Line 50: Update sjsonPathSpecials to include the colon character so literal
path segments beginning with “:” are escaped rather than interpreted as
force-object-key syntax. Extend TestEscapeSjsonKey and the end-to-end patch
coverage to verify keys such as “:2313” are addressed literally.
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Comment thread utils/patching/patch.go Outdated
sjson treats a leading ':' as force-object-key syntax, so a literal key
beginning with ':' was silently rewritten to address a different key.
Add ':' to the escaped specials and cover ':2313' and 'a:b' in tests.

Signed-off-by: Arjun Mehta <231106746+arjunmehta-git@users.noreply.github.com>
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Re the review summary and walkthrough: the one actionable finding (leading-colon force-key syntax unescaped) is fixed in e803bd6 with test coverage; the walkthrough's merge-risk note is addressed by the same commit. No other findings were raised.

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Patch paths with dotted segments (annotation/label keys) are mis-split by sjson

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