incorporating review comments

Signed-off-by: parth aranke <arankeparth1912@gmail.com>

loader/loader_yaml_test.go

@@ -55,3 +55,52 @@ services:
 		},
 	})
 }
+
+func TestParseYAMLFilesMergeOverride(t *testing.T) {
+	model, err := loadYamlModel(context.TODO(), types.ConfigDetails{
+		ConfigFiles: []types.ConfigFile{
+			{Filename: "override.yaml",
+				Content: []byte(`
+services:
+  base:
+    configs:
+      - source: credentials
+        target: /credentials/file1
+  x: &x
+    extends:
+      base
+    configs: !override
+      - source: credentials
+        target: /literally-anywhere-else
+
+  y:
+    <<: *x
+
+configs:
+  credentials:
+    content: |
+      dummy value
+`)},
+		}}, &Options{}, &cycleTracker{}, nil)
+	assert.NilError(t, err)
+	assert.DeepEqual(t, model, map[string]interface{}{
+		"configs": map[string]interface{}{"credentials": map[string]interface{}{"content": string("dummy value\n")}},
+		"services": map[string]interface{}{
+			"base": map[string]interface{}{
+				"configs": []interface{}{
+					map[string]interface{}{"source": string("credentials"), "target": string("/credentials/file1")},
+				},
+			},
+			"x": map[string]interface{}{
+				"configs": []interface{}{
+					map[string]interface{}{"source": string("credentials"), "target": string("/literally-anywhere-else")},
+				},
+			},
+			"y": map[string]interface{}{
+				"configs": []interface{}{
+					map[string]interface{}{"source": string("credentials"), "target": string("/literally-anywhere-else")},
+				},
+			},
+		},
+	})
+}

loader/reset.go

@@ -42,14 +42,8 @@ func (p *ResetProcessor) UnmarshalYAML(value *yaml.Node) error {
 // resolveReset detects `!reset` tag being set on yaml nodes and record position in the yaml tree
 func (p *ResetProcessor) resolveReset(node *yaml.Node, path tree.Path) (*yaml.Node, error) {
 	// If the path contains "<<", removing the "<<" element and merging the path
-	if strings.Contains(path.String(), "<<") {
-		pathArr := strings.Split(path.String(), ".")
-		path = tree.NewPath(pathArr[0])
-		for _, el := range pathArr[1:] {
-			if el != "<<" {
-				path = tree.Path(strings.Join([]string{path.String(), el}, "."))
-			}
-		}
+	if strings.Contains(path.String(), ".<<") {
+		path = tree.NewPath(strings.Replace(path.String(), ".<<", "", 1))
 	}
 	// If the node is an alias, We need to process the alias field in order to consider the !override and !reset tags
 	if node.Kind == yaml.AliasNode {