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+/*
+Copyright 2017 The Kubernetes Authors.
+
+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 v1alpha1
+
+import (
+	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime"
+	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/schema"
+)
+
+var (
+	SchemeBuilder      = runtime.NewSchemeBuilder(addKnownTypes)
+	localSchemeBuilder = &SchemeBuilder
+	AddToScheme        = SchemeBuilder.AddToScheme
+)
+
+// GroupName is the group name use in this package
+const GroupName = "reschedulercomponentconfig"
+const GroupVersion = "v1alpha1"
+
+// SchemeGroupVersion is group version used to register these objects
+var SchemeGroupVersion = schema.GroupVersion{Group: GroupName, Version: GroupVersion}
+
+func init() {
+	// We only register manually written functions here. The registration of the
+	// generated functions takes place in the generated files. The separation
+	// makes the code compile even when the generated files are missing.
+	localSchemeBuilder.Register(addKnownTypes, addDefaultingFuncs)
+}
+
+func addKnownTypes(scheme *runtime.Scheme) error {
+	// TODO this will get cleaned up with the scheme types are fixed
+	scheme.AddKnownTypes(SchemeGroupVersion,
+		&ReschedulerConfiguration{},
+	)
+	return nil
+}