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    filename: helpers.go
    path of file: ./repos/hubble-ui/backend/vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1
    
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Copyright 2016 The Kubernetes Authors.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
*/

package v1

import (
	"bytes"
	"encoding/json"
	"errors"
	"fmt"

	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/fields"
	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/labels"
	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/selection"
	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/types"
)

// LabelSelectorAsSelector converts the LabelSelector api type into a struct that implements
// labels.Selector
// Note: This function should be kept in sync with the selector methods in pkg/labels/selector.go
func LabelSelectorAsS
    
func LabelSelectorAsSelector(ps *LabelSelector) (labels.Selector, error) {
	if ps == nil {
		return labels.Nothing(), nil
	}
	if len(ps.MatchLabels)+len(ps.MatchExpressions) == 0 {
		return labels.Everything(), nil
	}
	requirements := make([]labels.Requirement, 0, len(ps.MatchLabels)+len(ps.MatchExpressions))
	for k, v := range ps.MatchLabels {
		r, err := labels.NewRequirement(k, selection.Equals, []string{v})
		if err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}
		requirements = append(requirements, *r)
	}
	for _, expr := range ps.MatchExpressions {
		var op selection.Operator
		switch expr.Operator {
		case LabelSelectorOpIn:
			op = selection.In
		case LabelSelectorOpNotIn:
			op = selection.NotIn
		case LabelSelectorOpExists:
			op = selection.Exists
		case LabelSelectorOpDoesNotExist:
			op = selection.DoesNotExist
		default:
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%q is not a valid label selector operator", expr.Operator)
		}
		r, err := labels.NewRequirement(expr.Key, op, append([]string(nil), expr.Values...))
		if err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}
		requirements = append(requirements, *r)
	}
	selector := labels.NewSelector()
	selector = selector.Add(requirements...)
	return selector, nil
}