Revert "Fix check for user exec command (#3664)" (#3827)

This reverts commit 056b818ceb.

Signed-off-by: Lauri Nevala <lauri.nevala@gmail.com>

src/common/custom-errors.ts

@@ -19,18 +19,15 @@
  * CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
  */
 
-import path from "path";
-
 export class ExecValidationNotFoundError extends Error {
-  constructor(execPath: string) {
+  constructor(execPath: string, isAbsolute: boolean) {
+    super(`User Exec command "${execPath}" not found on host.`);
     let message = `User Exec command "${execPath}" not found on host.`;
 
-    if (!path.isAbsolute(execPath)) {
+    if (!isAbsolute) {
       message += ` Please ensure binary is found in PATH or use absolute path to binary in Kubeconfig`;
     }
-
-    super(message);
-
+    this.message = message; 
     this.name = this.constructor.name;
     Error.captureStackTrace(this, this.constructor);
   }

src/common/kube-helpers.ts

@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ import path from "path";
 import os from "os";
 import yaml from "js-yaml";
 import logger from "../main/logger";
+import commandExists from "command-exists";
 import { ExecValidationNotFoundError } from "./custom-errors";
 import { Cluster, Context, newClusters, newContexts, newUsers, User } from "@kubernetes/client-node/dist/config_types";
 import { resolvePath } from "./utils";
 import Joi from "joi";
-import which from "which";
 
 export type KubeConfigValidationOpts = {
   validateCluster?: boolean;
@@ -295,17 +295,13 @@ export function validateKubeConfig(config: KubeConfig, contextName: string, vali
 
     // Validate exec command if present
     if (validateExec && user?.exec) {
-      try {
-        which.sync(user.exec.command);
+      const execCommand = user.exec["command"];
+      // check if the command is absolute or not
+      const isAbsolute = path.isAbsolute(execCommand);
 
-        // If this doesn't throw an error it also means that it has found the executable.
-      } catch (error) {
-        switch (error?.code) {
-          case "ENOENT":
-            return new ExecValidationNotFoundError(user.exec.command);
-          default:
-            return error;
-        }
+      // validate the exec struct in the user object, start with the command field
+      if (!commandExists.sync(execCommand)) {
+        return new ExecValidationNotFoundError(execCommand, isAbsolute);
       }
     }