Merge pull request #20674 from caesarxuchao/decode-status

pkg/client/unversioned/request.go

@@ -841,10 +841,13 @@ func (r *Request) transformResponse(resp *http.Response, req *http.Request) Resu
 
 	// Did the server give us a status response?
 	isStatusResponse := false
-	var status *unversioned.Status
-	result, err := runtime.Decode(r.content.Codec, body)
-	if out, ok := result.(*unversioned.Status); err == nil && ok && len(out.Status) > 0 {
-		status = out
+	// Because release-1.1 server returns Status with empty APIVersion at paths
+	// to the Extensions resources, we need to use DecodeInto here to provide
+	// default groupVersion, otherwise a status response won't be correctly
+	// decoded.
+	status := &unversioned.Status{}
+	err := runtime.DecodeInto(r.content.Codec, body, status)
+	if err == nil && len(status.Status) > 0 {
 		isStatusResponse = true
 	}
 

pkg/client/unversioned/restclient_test.go

@@ -109,7 +109,11 @@ func TestDoRequestFailed(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("unexpected error type %v", err)
 	}
 	actual := ss.Status()
-	if !reflect.DeepEqual(status, &actual) {
+	expected := *status
+	// The decoder will apply the default Version and Kind to the Status.
+	expected.APIVersion = "v1"
+	expected.Kind = "Status"
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(&expected, &actual) {
 		t.Errorf("Unexpected mis-match: %s", util.ObjectDiff(status, &actual))
 	}
 }