Content type for PATCH sub resource requests is incorrect

[suman-ganta]

Describe the bug
Patching status subresource of a CRD always fails with java client.

Client Version
20.0.0

Kubernetes Version
1.29.1

Java Version
Java 17

To Reproduce

var fooApi = new GenericKubernetesApi<>(Foo.class, FooList.class, "foo.bar", "v1", "foos", apiClient);
fooApi.updateStatus(foo, Foo::getStatus).throwsApiException().getObject();

Above code always fails with the following error

{"kind":"Status","apiVersion":"v1","metadata":{},"status":"Failure","message":"the body of the request was in an unknown format - accepted media types include: application/json-patch+json, application/merge-patch+json, application/apply-patch+yaml","reason":"UnsupportedMediaType","code":415}

Expected behavior
This call is expected to succeed.

KubeConfig
If applicable, add a KubeConfig file with secrets redacted.

Server (please complete the following information):

• OS: MacOS
• Kind cluster

Additional context
The equivalent call from kubectl succeeds -

kubectl patch foos.foo.bar foo1 --subresource=status --type=json -p '[{"op":"replace","path":"/status","value":{"availableReplicas":20}}]'

In kubernetes/api/openapi.yaml, operationId: patchNamespacedCustomObject has the content type defined as application/json, which seem to be incorrect.

[brendandburns]

Yeah, there's lots of errors in the upstream YAML. We try to fix them when we find them.

[brendandburns]

Also, see the patch example here:

https://github.com/kubernetes-client/java/blob/master/examples/examples-release-latest/src/main/java/io/kubernetes/client/examples/PatchExample.java

[suman-ganta]

Thanks @brendandburns. This path has worked. Working code snippet following my problem description for posterity

var customObjectsApi = new CustomObjectsApi(apiClient);
PatchUtils.patch(
    Foo.class,
    () ->
        customObjectsApi.patchNamespacedCustomObjectStatus(
             API_GROUP, "v1", foo.getMetadata().getNamespace(), "foos",
             foo.getMetadata().getName(),
             new V1Patch(String.format(JSON_PATH_TEMPLATE, newPodsSize))
        ).buildCall(null),
    V1Patch.PATCH_FORMAT_JSON_PATCH,
    customObjectsApi.getApiClient()
)

The GenericKubernetesApi path still need to be fixed.

[mnlipp]

Using PatchUtils is a workaround at best. This bug also makes GenericKubernetesApi's patch and updateStatus unusable.

The cause is the wrong (static) choice of mimetype.

[mnlipp]

This is a duplicate of #3106