GetInferenceCandidates checks a generic config structure (YAML or JSON) and, if an explicit type value is not found, returns a list of candidate types by walking the root objects field names.

MarshalYAML marshals a structure into YAML with consistent formatting across all Benthos components.

SanitizeComponent performs a generic sanitation on a component config, where a type field describes the type of the component, and the only other fields returned in the sanitized result are under the namespace of the type.

SanitForYAML a map to be embedded within a parent object for YAML marshalling.

Sanitised is a general map[string]interface{} type that tries to marshal into both YAML and JSON in a way that ensure the 'type' field is always first.