Dyff only data of confimaps generated with suffix

[blackjid]

Is there a way to tell dyff to match to resources by labels, o maybe a regex of the name?

I use dyff to show the diff of the result of a kustomize build on a pull request. We are using the configmapGenerator with the suffix option enabled. So when any key in the configmap changes the name of the configmap also changes and dyff explains that as the whole configmap has been removed and an new one has been added.

It is difficult to see what keys really changed and it add a bit of noise to the PRs.

I understand is a bit off an edge case, and dyff is really doing it correctly, telling mi what resources are new and what resourcese has been deleted.

I wonder how other people use dyff with the configMapGenerator from kustomize.

[AndiDog]

I also have a case where a hash is added like name: this-is-constant-<hashed suffix>.

With dyff v1.7.1, you get this output:

$ for n in 1 2; do kubectl create configmap -o yaml --dry-run=client --from-literal=key="value-${n}" "conf-${n}" > /tmp/"${n}"; done; dyff between --set-exit-code --ignore-order-changes --omit-header --use-go-patch-style /tmp/{1,2}

(file level)
  - one document removed:           ---
    ---                             apiVersion: v1
    apiVersion: v1                  data:
    data:                           │ key: value-2
    │ key: value-1                  kind: ConfigMap
    kind: ConfigMap                 metadata:
    metadata:                       │ name: conf-2
    │ name: conf-1                  │ creationTimestamp: null
    │ creationTimestamp: null

At best, dyff would detect that most of the non-name content is the same, and detect this situation as rename. Similar to Git's heuristic rewrite detection.