apis/certificates: initialize the certificates API group

pkg/util/certificates/csr.go

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+/*
+Copyright 2016 The Kubernetes Authors All rights reserved.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+package certificates
+
+import (
+	"crypto/x509"
+	"encoding/pem"
+	"errors"
+
+	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/apis/certificates"
+)
+
+// ParseCertificateRequestObject extracts the CSR from the API object and decodes it.
+func ParseCertificateRequestObject(obj *certificates.CertificateSigningRequest) (*x509.CertificateRequest, error) {
+	// extract PEM from request object
+	pemBytes := obj.Spec.Request
+	block, _ := pem.Decode(pemBytes)
+	if block == nil || block.Type != "CERTIFICATE REQUEST" {
+		return nil, errors.New("PEM block type must be CERTIFICATE REQUEST")
+	}
+	csr, err := x509.ParseCertificateRequest(block.Bytes)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return csr, nil
+}