Change:
// KindFor fulfills meta.RESTMapper func (e shortcutExpander) KindFor(resource schema.GroupVersionResource) (schema.GroupVersionKind, error) { <del> return e.RESTMapper.KindFor(e.expandResourceShortcut(resource)) </del> <ins> // expandResourceShortcut works with current API resources as read from discovery cache. // In case of new CRDs this means we potentially don't have current state of discovery. // In the current wiring in k8s.io/cli-runtime/pkg/genericclioptions/config_flags.go#toRESTMapper, // we are using DeferredDiscoveryRESTMapper which on KindFor failure will clear the // cache and fetch all data from a cluster (see vendor/k8s.io/client-go/restmapper/discovery.go#KindFor). // Thus another call to expandResourceShortcut, after a NoMatchError should successfully // read Kind to the user or an error. gvk, err := e.RESTMapper.KindFor(e.expandResourceShortcut(resource)) if meta.IsNoMatchError(err) { return e.RESTMapper.KindFor(e.expandResourceShortcut(resource)) } return gvk, err </ins> } // KindsFor fulfills meta.RESTMapper

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Confirmed that could show up even the crd has status /assign
/sig api-machinery Haven't looked into the problem yet but could be related:
Looks like this happens because cache file in .kube/http-cache/ or .kube/cache/ is not synced with kube-apiserver. delete all files under .kube/http-cache/ and .kube/cache/ will cause a sync and the error will not show up. This looks like a cli issue.
fyi
Tried to fix in cli:
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/assign
this seems similar to
Even though this bug looks small, it might involve larger changes both in fixing and refactoring.. A typical corner case it is /shrug
Can you put this into words? What's the actual issue?
Even though this bug looks small, it might involve larger changes both in fixing and refactoring.. A typical corner case it is Can you put this into words? What's the actual issue? SRY, I should have put it clearer.. I just mean that this issue is sort of fundamental and obviously has been existing for a long time.
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/unshrug looks like an important problem we want to solve (?)
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encountered same issue, as suggested the error will not show up.
any progress?
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Here is a little more info, and here is how I am able to reproduce it (kubectl version 1.18.0 and cluster version 1.19.0-beta.2): A couple interesting things i noted... If I deleted my and re-ran it, I could not reproduce it. It is only the first time the short name was EVER used that this occurs. I only tried from one client machine, so I'm not sure this is cluster-specific or client-specific. If I used a different short name, like 'fo2' and re-ran the example, then it reproduces the problem. You can also run after creating the CRD and it has the same effect as deleting your . EDIT TO ADD: This doesn't seem to be a timing thing... if I sleep for 10 seconds after creating the CRD, it still has the problem.
The root of the problem is that the is run before the discovery. So in this particular case this line continues to b/c read cached data and never reached out to server. Whereas discovery mapper in will get a not found error and will proceed invalidating cache and re-fetching discovery data and return that back. In the subsequent call the shortcut expander is already aware of the new shortcut so it works just fine.

We'd need to teach shortcut expander to re-fetch discovery data, but I'm not sure that's desirable, or we could at least warn a user about this situation.
See for possible approach.
Any new progress on this ?
lists a candidate solution. This bug is causing steadily failing tests. I'll talk to a few people to see if this can get any traction. do you know who can get this moving? It sounds like you have identified the problem and have proposed a solution.