item.GetObjectKind().SetGroupVersionKind(gvk)

				jsonSerializer := jsonserializer.NewSerializerWithOptions(jsonserializer.DefaultMetaFactory, legacyscheme.Scheme, legacyscheme.Scheme, jsonserializer.SerializerOptions{})
				cborSerializer := cborserializer.NewSerializer(legacyscheme.Scheme, legacyscheme.Scheme)

				// original->JSON->Unstructured
				buf.Reset()
				if err := jsonSerializer.Encode(item, &buf); err != nil {

	}

	var patchedJS []byte
	jsonSerializer := json.NewSerializer(json.DefaultMetaFactory, o.GetObjectCreater(), o.GetObjectTyper(), false)
	switch result.PatchType {
	// VerifyAdmissionResponse normalizes to v1 patch types, regardless of the AdmissionReview version used
	case admissionv1.PatchTypeJSONPatch:
		objJS, err := runtime.Encode(jsonSerializer, attr.VersionedObject)
		if err != nil {

import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;
import com.google.gson.JsonDeserializationContext;
import com.google.gson.JsonDeserializer;
import com.google.gson.JsonElement;
import com.google.gson.JsonObject;
import com.google.gson.JsonParseException;
import com.google.gson.JsonSerializationContext;
import com.google.gson.JsonSerializer;
import com.google.gson.TypeAdapter;
import com.google.gson.TypeAdapterFactory;

	}
	patchedObject, _, err := jsonSerializer.Decode(patched, nil, &corev1.Pod{})
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	patchedPod := patchedObject.(*corev1.Pod)
	*metadata = patchedPod.ObjectMeta
	*podSpec = patchedPod.Spec
	return out, nil
}

func applyJSONPatchToPod(input *corev1.Pod, patch []byte) ([]byte, error) {
	objJS, err := runtime.Encode(jsonSerializer, input)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err

)

var (
	runtimeScheme     = runtime.NewScheme()
	codecs            = serializer.NewCodecFactory(runtimeScheme)
	deserializer      = codecs.UniversalDeserializer()
	jsonSerializer    = kjson.NewSerializerWithOptions(kjson.DefaultMetaFactory, runtimeScheme, runtimeScheme, kjson.SerializerOptions{})
	URLParameterToEnv = map[string]string{
		"cluster": "ISTIO_META_CLUSTER_ID",