Improve kubectl "get" error message

Previous behavior: $ kubectl get hosts F1119 11:47:44.787154 29017 resource.go:111] no resource "hosts" has been defined

Improve kubectl "get" error message
bc299031 · Haney Maxwell · 3c3ad747 · bc299031
Commit bc299031 authored Nov 19, 2014 by Haney Maxwell
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resource.go pkg/kubectl/cmd/resource.go +4 -1

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--- a/pkg/kubectl/cmd/resource.go
+++ b/pkg/kubectl/cmd/resource.go
@@ -44,7 +44,10 @@ func ResourceFromArgsOrFile(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string, filename string, 
 		}

 		version, kind, err := mapper.VersionAndKindForResource(resource)
-		checkErr(err)
+		if err != nil {
+			// The error returned by mapper is "no resource defined", which is a usage error
+			usageError(cmd, err.Error())
+		}

 		mapping, err = mapper.RESTMapping(version, kind)
 		checkErr(err)