Status field not being updated for the attachment resource

[Shashankft9]

I have noticed when I use a DecoratorController, and try to send the response with status for an attachment resource, although it gets reflected in the attachment resource for the very first time, but for the subsequent updates in the status field of this attachment resource, metacontroller just ignores doing any changes - its even missing in the mergepatch calculated.

sample logs from metacontroller:
in request i see this: (expected)

"status":{"conditions":[{"lastTransitionTime":"2023-03-06T10:23:53Z","status":"True","type":"CUD"}]}}}},"related":{},"finalizing":false}}

in response i see this: (expected)

"status":{"conditions":[{"type":"CUD","status":"True","lastTransitionTime":"2023-03-09T07:31:52Z"}]}}]}}

Notice the time change in the request and response.
Now, in this log, metacontroller gives the expected change in spec in attachment cr, but I cant see the status bit here

{"level":"Level(-5)","ts":1678347112.267575,"msg":"Diff between observed and desired","mergePatch":{"spec":{"data":"{\"maxclients\":\"9800\",\"repl-ping-replica-period\":\"10\"},,\"runAsNonRoot\":true,\"runAsUser\":7777777}}"}}}

[grzesuav]

hi @Shashankft9 , I saw #776, however this is not the way how I would like to handle it, as it is arbitrary changing the behawior. In some cases people do not controll the races in resources.

I would see that it will be controllable behaviour per child/attachement, so change in the config API, I still need to wrap an idea regarding this, as have some other config related changes in API types (i.e. emitting events)