adds logic to account if kind has special characters such as "-"

icekube/models/api_resource.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from typing import List
 
-from pydantic import BaseModel
+from pydantic import BaseModel, field_validator
 
 
 class APIResource(BaseModel):
@@ -10,3 +10,9 @@ class APIResource(BaseModel):
     kind: str
     verbs: List[str]
     preferred: bool = False
+
+    @field_validator("kind")
+    @classmethod
+    def kind_can_only_have_underscore(cls, v: str) -> str:
+        s = "".join([x if x.isalnum() else "_" for x in v])
+        return s

icekube/models/base.py

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 from icekube.relationships import Relationship
 from icekube.utils import to_camel_case
 from kubernetes import client
-from pydantic import BaseModel, Field, computed_field, model_validator
+from pydantic import BaseModel, Field, computed_field, model_validator, field_validator
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -52,6 +52,12 @@ def __eq__(self, other) -> bool:
 
         return all(getattr(self, x) == getattr(other, x) for x in comparison_points)
 
+    @field_validator("kind")
+    @classmethod
+    def kind_can_only_have_underscore(cls, v: str) -> str:
+        s = "".join([x if x.isalnum() else "_" for x in v])
+        return s
+
     @cached_property
     def data(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
         return cast(Dict[str, Any], json.loads(self.raw or "{}"))