From 120ae5bb5f55b868bdcc032f4e5ad52736ff4785 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Mitchell <nickm@us.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 20:29:52 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix(plugins/plugin-kubectl): windows powershell fails to get
 default namespace

Fixes #4912
---
 plugins/plugin-kubectl/src/controller/kubectl/contexts.ts | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/plugins/plugin-kubectl/src/controller/kubectl/contexts.ts b/plugins/plugin-kubectl/src/controller/kubectl/contexts.ts
index 15524f50511..602fb819947 100644
--- a/plugins/plugin-kubectl/src/controller/kubectl/contexts.ts
+++ b/plugins/plugin-kubectl/src/controller/kubectl/contexts.ts
@@ -136,7 +136,11 @@ export async function getCurrentContextName({ REPL }: { REPL: REPLType }) {
 
 /** Extract the namespace from the current context */
 export async function getCurrentDefaultNamespace({ REPL }: { REPL: REPLType }) {
-  const ns = await REPL.qexec<string>(`kubectl config view --minify --output 'jsonpath={..namespace}'`)
+  const ns = await REPL.qexec<string>(`kubectl config view --minify --output "jsonpath={..namespace}"`).catch(err => {
+    console.error('error determining default namespace', err)
+    return 'default'
+  })
+
   if (typeof ns !== 'string') {
     // e.g. microk8s
     return 'default'