otherwise the type assertion is invalid since it is not possible for <code>x</code>
to store a value of type <code>T</code>.
If <code>T</code> is an interface type, <code>x.(T)</code> asserts that the dynamic type
of <code>x</code> <a href="#Implementing_an_interface">implements</a> the interface <code>T</code>.
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If the type assertion holds, the value of the expression is the value

- OIDC authentication will now fail if the username asserted based on a CEL expression config is the empty string.  Previously the request would be authenticated with the username set to the empty string. ([#123568](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123568), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))