From c4d5ff4da3d1f89d7f5f8467776b0900bdc5771c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Laprun <metacosm@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 22:13:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat: add list of known resource types and factory from
 runtime.Object

---
 pkg/cmdutil/entity.go | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pkg/cmdutil/entity.go b/pkg/cmdutil/entity.go
index ba67c20..61332fe 100644
--- a/pkg/cmdutil/entity.go
+++ b/pkg/cmdutil/entity.go
@@ -21,6 +21,23 @@ func (r ResourceType) String() string {
 	return string(r)
 }
 
+func KnownResourceTypes() []ResourceType {
+	return []ResourceType{Capability, Component, Link}
+}
+
+func ResourceTypeFor(object runtime.Object) (ResourceType, error) {
+	if object == nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("must provide a non-nil runtime.Object")
+	}
+	kind := strings.ToLower(object.GetObjectKind().GroupVersionKind().Kind)
+	for _, t := range KnownResourceTypes() {
+		if kind == t.String() {
+			return t, nil
+		}
+	}
+	return "", fmt.Errorf("unknown resource type: %s", kind)
+}
+
 type GenericOperationOptions struct {
 	ResourceType  ResourceType
 	Name          string