Validate listType usage on struct fields

[lalitc375]

Validate listType usage on struct fields

Fixes : #554.

kube-openapi is updated to validate the usage of the // +listType marker. The tool will now generate an error if this marker is applied to any field that is not a slice or an array. This change ensures that the OpenAPI specifications for core Kubernetes types are generated with the same strictness as those for CRDs, preventing downstream tooling failures.

Problem:

Currently, kube-openapi allows the // +listType marker to be used on fields that are not lists or slices. This can result in the generation of an invalid OpenAPI schema. For example, a +listType=atomic marker was incorrectly applied to the metav1.Status.Details field, which is a struct, not a list type. This causes tools that consume the schema, such as controller-gen, to fail when generating Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) that embed metav1.Status.

Solution:

This pull request introduces a validation check in kube-openapi to ensure that the +listType marker is only used on slice or array fields. If the marker is used on any other type of field, an error will be returned.

Unit tests have been added to verify the new validation logic, including a test case that is expected to fail when +listType is used on a string field.

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