Views

Provides read-only access to Tailscale API types, separating data views from mutable types for safe sharing.

// Copyright (c) Tailscale Inc & contributors
// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause

// Package views provides read-only accessors for commonly used
// value types.
package views

import (
	"bytes"
	"cmp"
	jsonv1 "encoding/json"
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	"iter"
	"maps"
	"reflect"
	"slices"

	jsonv2 "github.com/go-json-experiment/json"
	"github.com/go-json-experiment/json/jsontext"
	"go4.org/mem"
)

// ByteSlice is a read-only accessor for types that are backed by a []byte.
type ByteSlice[T ~[]byte] struct {
	// ж is the underlying mutable value, named with a hard-to-type
	// character that looks pointy like a pointer.
	// It is named distinctively to make you think of how dangerous it is to escape
	// to callers. You must not let callers be able to mutate it.
	ж T
}

// ByteSliceOf returns a By

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