configs: []config.Config{
				setCreationTimestamp(newProxyConfig("workload-a", "test-ns",
					&v1beta1.ProxyConfig{
						Selector: selector(map[string]string{
							"test": "selector",
						}),
						EnvironmentVariables: map[string]string{
							"A": "1",
						},
					}), now),
				setCreationTimestamp(newProxyConfig("workload-b", "test-ns",
					&v1beta1.ProxyConfig{

	o.lock.RLock()
	defer o.lock.RUnlock()
	return o.object.GetCreationTimestamp()
}
func (o *cachingObject) SetCreationTimestamp(timestamp metav1.Time) {
	o.conditionalSet(
		func() bool { return o.object.GetCreationTimestamp() == timestamp },
		func() { o.object.SetCreationTimestamp(timestamp) },
	)
}
func (o *cachingObject) GetDeletionTimestamp() *metav1.Time {
	o.lock.RLock()
	defer o.lock.RUnlock()

	}
	v.logger.LogAndPrintf("%s Istio is installed and verified successfully", v.successMarker)
	return nil
}

func fixTimestampRelatedUnmarshalIssues(un *unstructured.Unstructured) {
	un.SetCreationTimestamp(metav1.Time{}) // UnmarshalIstioOperator chokes on these

	// UnmarshalIstioOperator fails because managedFields could contain time
	// and gogo/protobuf/jsonpb(v1.3.1) tries to unmarshal it as struct (the type

	// This also preserves iopYAML if it is ""; we don't want iopYAML to be the string "null"
	if len(mapIOP) > 0 {
		un := &unstructured.Unstructured{Object: mapIOP}
		un.SetCreationTimestamp(metav1.Time{}) // UnmarshalIstioOperator chokes on these
		iopYAML = util.ToYAML(un)
	}
	iop := &v1alpha1.IstioOperator{}

	if err := yaml.UnmarshalStrict([]byte(iopYAML), iop); err != nil {

	if len(objectMeta.GetUID()) == 0 {
		objectMeta.SetUID(oldMeta.GetUID())
	}
	// ignore changes to timestamp
	if oldCreationTime := oldMeta.GetCreationTimestamp(); !oldCreationTime.IsZero() {
		objectMeta.SetCreationTimestamp(oldMeta.GetCreationTimestamp())
	}
	// an update can never remove/change a deletion timestamp
	if !oldMeta.GetDeletionTimestamp().IsZero() {
		objectMeta.SetDeletionTimestamp(oldMeta.GetDeletionTimestamp())
	}

	var timestamp metav1.Time
	timestamp.UnmarshalQueryParameter(getNestedString(u.Object, "metadata", "creationTimestamp"))
	return timestamp
}

func (u *Unstructured) SetCreationTimestamp(timestamp metav1.Time) {
	ts, _ := timestamp.MarshalQueryParameter()
	if len(ts) == 0 || timestamp.Time.IsZero() {
		RemoveNestedField(u.Object, "metadata", "creationTimestamp")
		return
	}

	unstruct.SetGenerateName("test_generateName")
	unstruct.SetUID(types.UID("test_uid"))
	unstruct.SetResourceVersion("test_resourceVersion")
	unstruct.SetSelfLink("test_selfLink")
	unstruct.SetCreationTimestamp(metav1.Date(2009, time.November, 10, 23, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC))
	date := metav1.Date(2010, time.November, 10, 23, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
	unstruct.SetDeletionTimestamp(&date)

func (a genericAccessor) SetSelfLink(selfLink string) {
	*a.selfLink = selfLink
}

func (a genericAccessor) GetCreationTimestamp() metav1.Time {
	return *a.creationTimestamp
}

func (a genericAccessor) SetCreationTimestamp(timestamp metav1.Time) {
	*a.creationTimestamp = timestamp
}

func (a genericAccessor) GetDeletionTimestamp() *metav1.Time {
	return *a.deletionTimestamp
}

				return nil, err
			}
			// IstioOperator isn't part of pkg/config/schema/collections,
			// usual conversion not available.  Convert unstructured to string
			// and ask operator code to check.
			un.SetCreationTimestamp(metav1.Time{}) // UnmarshalIstioOperator chokes on these
			by := util.ToYAML(un)
			iop, err := operatoristio.UnmarshalIstioOperator(by, false)
			if err != nil {
				return nil, err
			}

			t.Fatalf("ToUnstructured failed: %v", err)
		}

		unstructObj := &metaunstruct.Unstructured{}
		unstructObj.Object = unstrBody

		if meta, err := meta.Accessor(unstructObj); err == nil {
			meta.SetCreationTimestamp(metav1.Time{})
		} else {
			t.Fatalf("Unable to set creation timestamp: %v", err)
		}

		// attempt to re-convert unstructured object - conversion should not fail