Cherry picked from commit 2e8bce201e with
additional updates required for the v4.2.0-rhel branch.
Signed-off-by: tomsweeneyredhat <tsweeney@redhat.com>
Assisted by AI: Cursor <Auto>
Signed-off-by: Chris Evich <cevich@redhat.com>
The jsoniter library does not require code generation, which is a
massive advantage over easyjson (it's also about the same in
performance). Begin moving over to it by removing the existing
easyjson code.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Heon <matthew.heon@pm.me>
To ensure we can build without easyjson installed, vendor the
easyjson repository as the generated files use the easyjson
library.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Heon <matthew.heon@gmail.com>
Closes: #1322
Approved by: mheon
