Initial QSfera import

Server/vendor/go-micro.dev/v4/util/qson/merge.go

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+package qson
+
+// merge merges a with b if they are either both slices
+// or map[string]interface{} types. Otherwise it returns b.
+func merge(a interface{}, b interface{}) interface{} {
+	switch aT := a.(type) {
+	case map[string]interface{}:
+		return mergeMap(aT, b.(map[string]interface{}))
+	case []interface{}:
+		return mergeSlice(aT, b.([]interface{}))
+	default:
+		return b
+	}
+}
+
+// mergeMap merges a with b, attempting to merge any nested
+// values in nested maps but eventually overwriting anything
+// in a that can't be merged with whatever is in b.
+func mergeMap(a map[string]interface{}, b map[string]interface{}) map[string]interface{} {
+	for bK, bV := range b {
+		if _, ok := a[bK]; ok {
+			a[bK] = merge(a[bK], bV)
+		} else {
+			a[bK] = bV
+		}
+	}
+
+	return a
+}
+
+// mergeSlice merges a with b and returns the result.
+func mergeSlice(a []interface{}, b []interface{}) []interface{} {
+	a = append(a, b...)
+	return a
+}