Add support for partial object metadata

[manusa]

Description

The Kubernetes API supports HTTP requests that reply with a partial representation of an object.

See:

• https://github.com/kubernetes/website/issues/37448
• https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/commit/33a3e325f754d179b25558dee116fca1c67d353a
• https://kubernetes.slack.com/?redir=%2Farchives%2FC0EG7JC6T%2Fp1666449343298609%3Fthread_ts%3D1666448393.697149%26cid%3DC0EG7JC6T%26name%3DC0EG7JC6T%26perma%3D1666449343298609

In order to achieve this purpose, the user can provide a specially crafted accept HTTP header for resource requests:

accept: application/json;as=PartialObjectMetadata;g=meta.k8s.io;v=v1

And for list requests too:

accept: application/json;as=PartialObjectMetadataList;g=meta.k8s.io;v=v1

AFAIU this will return the resources with just the metadata field, omitting spec and status. I'm not sure if the list can be further customized.

A DSL method partialObjectMetadata could be added so that we can set this in the context and then execute the requests with the modified accept header.

[GauravDhak]

hey @manusa can you elaborate about the issue in brief?

[manusa]

hey @manusa can you elaborate about the issue in brief?

Provide a DSL method (and implementation) to be able to leverage this Kubernetes feature.

I'm not sure if you're asking because you're looking to contribute to the project and trying to find a help-wanted/good-first-issue. If this is the case, then this is not it.

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