* asynchronously-computed intermediate value, or else an exception that indicates the failure or
 * cancellation of the operation so far. The only way to extract the value or exception from a step
 * is by declaring that step to be the last step of the pipeline. Nevertheless, we refer to the
 * "value" of a successful step or the "result" (value or exception) of any step.
 *
 * <ol>

- Fix issues where server side apply patches operations incorrectly treat empty arrays and maps as absent.
  Fix issue where client-go's `Extract{TypeName}()` and `Extract{TypeName}From() functions incorrectly treat empty arrays and maps as absent.

# Cache for endpoint context to avoid re-extracting on every request
_endpoint_context_cache: dict[int, EndpointContext] = {}


def _extract_endpoint_context(func: Any) -> EndpointContext:
    """Extract endpoint context with caching to avoid repeated file I/O."""
    func_id = id(func)

    if func_id in _endpoint_context_cache:
        return _endpoint_context_cache[func_id]

    try:

		SecretKey:    stsCred.SecretKey,
		Expiration:   time.Unix(expiry, 0).UTC(),
		SessionToken: stsCred.SessionToken,
		ParentUser:   stsCred.ParentUser,
		Status:       auth.AccountOn,
	}

	// Extract the username and lookup DN and groups in LDAP.
	ldapUser, isLDAPSTS := claims.Lookup(ldapUserN)
	if isLDAPSTS {
		// Need to lookup the groups from LDAP.