kilo/vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/diff/diff.go

//go:build !usegocmp
// +build !usegocmp

/*
Copyright 2025 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

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*/

package diff

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"

	"github.com/pmezard/go-difflib/difflib"

	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/dump"
)

// Diff returns a string representation of the difference between two objects.
// When built without the usegocmp tag, it uses go-difflib/difflib to generate a
// unified diff of the objects. It attempts to use JSON serialization first,
// falling back to an object dump via the dump package if JSON marshaling fails.
func Diff(a, b any) string {

	aStr, aErr := toPrettyJSON(a)
	bStr, bErr := toPrettyJSON(b)
	if aErr != nil || bErr != nil {
		aStr = dump.Pretty(a)
		bStr = dump.Pretty(b)
	}

	diff := difflib.UnifiedDiff{
		A:       difflib.SplitLines(aStr),
		B:       difflib.SplitLines(bStr),
		Context: 3,
	}

	diffstr, err := difflib.GetUnifiedDiffString(diff)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Sprintf("error generating diff: %v", err)
	}

	return diffstr
}

// toPrettyJSON converts an object to a pretty-printed JSON string.
func toPrettyJSON(data any) (string, error) {
	jsonData, err := json.MarshalIndent(data, "", " ")
	return string(jsonData), err
}