Fix nil pointer dereference in PatchDeployment - #3899
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PatchDeployment dereferenced modified.Namespace and modified.Name on line 58 before checking if modified was nil on line 65. This caused a panic instead of returning the expected error "modified cannot be nil". Move the nil check before any dereference to prevent the panic. Also add comprehensive unit test coverage for all deployment.go methods to catch similar issues: Coverage improvements: - deployment.go: 0% → 82%+ coverage across all major functions - Package: 4.7% → 27.5% coverage (+22.8 percentage points) Tests added (7 functions, 21 test cases): - TestGetDeployment: exists and not found cases - TestCreateDeployment: create with AlreadyExists fallback to Update - TestDeleteDeployment: deletion verification - TestPatchDeployment: three-way merge, nil handling, TypeMeta normalization - Regression test for nil modified parameter panic - TestUpdateDeployment: two-way merge wrapper - TestCreateOrRollingUpdateDeployment: create-or-update logic - TestListDeploymentsWithLabels: label selector filtering Test patterns follow existing conventions: - Table-driven tests with descriptive case names - testify/require for assertions (not assert) - k8s.io/utils/ptr.To[int32]() for pointer creation (not custom helper) - fake.NewSimpleClientset for Kubernetes client mocking - Action verification using kube.Actions() where appropriate All tests pass with go test ./pkg/lib/operatorclient/ No lint issues from make lint
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In `@pkg/lib/operatorclient/deployment_test.go`:
- Around line 130-132: Strengthen the assertions in the deployment tests around
the recorded actions from kube.Actions(): compare the full action sequence
against each test case’s ExpectedActions, including verb, resource, namespace,
and order, rather than checking only its length. For the nil modified-input
case, explicitly assert that PatchDeployment produces an empty action list.
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Assert the expected Kubernetes actions.
ExpectedActions only sets an expected count. A wrong verb, resource, namespace, or action order still passes these cases. The nil modified case also does not assert that PatchDeployment made zero client actions.
Compare the recorded actions with the expected action contract. Assert an empty action list for the nil-input case.
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In `@pkg/lib/operatorclient/deployment_test.go` around lines 130 - 132, Strengthen
the assertions in the deployment tests around the recorded actions from
kube.Actions(): compare the full action sequence against each test case’s
ExpectedActions, including verb, resource, namespace, and order, rather than
checking only its length. For the nil modified-input case, explicitly assert
that PatchDeployment produces an empty action list.
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PatchDeploymentthat caused panic instead of returning errormodifiedparameter is nilTest Plan
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