From f5feffbd231217a413e2c9dae9aafd145d33b110 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Natasha Sarkar <natashasarkar@google.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 13:28:06 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix for the patchdelete test

---
 api/builtins/PatchTransformer.go                    | 6 ++++--
 plugin/builtin/patchtransformer/PatchTransformer.go | 6 ++++--
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/api/builtins/PatchTransformer.go b/api/builtins/PatchTransformer.go
index fe0eb050c..865d2b73f 100644
--- a/api/builtins/PatchTransformer.go
+++ b/api/builtins/PatchTransformer.go
@@ -143,8 +143,10 @@ func (p *PatchTransformerPlugin) applySMPatch(resource, patch *resource.Resource
 	err = filtersutil.ApplyToJSON(patchstrategicmerge.Filter{
 		Patch: node,
 	}, resource)
-	resource.SetName(n)
-	resource.SetNamespace(ns)
+	if resource.GetName() != "" {
+		resource.SetName(n)
+		resource.SetNamespace(ns)
+	}
 	return err
 }
 
diff --git a/plugin/builtin/patchtransformer/PatchTransformer.go b/plugin/builtin/patchtransformer/PatchTransformer.go
index 9b2a00469..9d7b1e1a5 100644
--- a/plugin/builtin/patchtransformer/PatchTransformer.go
+++ b/plugin/builtin/patchtransformer/PatchTransformer.go
@@ -147,8 +147,10 @@ func (p *plugin) applySMPatch(resource, patch *resource.Resource) error {
 	err = filtersutil.ApplyToJSON(patchstrategicmerge.Filter{
 		Patch: node,
 	}, resource)
-	resource.SetName(n)
-	resource.SetNamespace(ns)
+	if resource.GetName() != "" {
+		resource.SetName(n)
+		resource.SetNamespace(ns)
+	}
 	return err
 }