@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ func GetFlagDuration(cmd *cobra.Command, flag string) time.Duration {

 }

 func AddValidateFlags(cmd *cobra.Command) {

-	cmd.Flags().Bool("validate", false, "If true, use a schema to validate the input before sending it")

+	cmd.Flags().Bool("validate", true, "If true, use a schema to validate the input before sending it")

 	cmd.Flags().String("schema-cache-dir", fmt.Sprintf("~/%s/%s", clientcmd.RecommendedHomeDir, clientcmd.RecommendedSchemaName), fmt.Sprintf("If non-empty, load/store cached API schemas in this directory, default is '$HOME/%s/%s'", clientcmd.RecommendedHomeDir, clientcmd.RecommendedSchemaName))

 }

@@ -173,6 +173,14 @@ func changeSharedFlagDefaults(rootCmd *cobra.Command) {

 			showAllFlag.Changed = false

 			showAllFlag.Usage = "When printing, show all resources (false means hide terminated pods.)"

 		}

+

+		// we want to disable the --validate flag by default when we're running kube commands from oc.  We want to make sure

+		// that we're only getting the upstream --validate flags, so check both the flag and the usage

+		if validateFlag := currCmd.Flags().Lookup("validate"); (validateFlag != nil) && (validateFlag.Usage == "If true, use a schema to validate the input before sending it") {

+			validateFlag.DefValue = "false"

+			validateFlag.Value.Set("false")

+			validateFlag.Changed = false

+		}

 	}

 }

@@ -53,3 +53,29 @@ kubectlLoop:

 	}

 }

+

+// this only checks one level deep for nested commands, but it does ensure that we've gotten several

+// --validate flags.  Based on that we can reasonably assume we got them in the kube commands since they

+// all share the same registration.

+func TestValidateDisabled(t *testing.T) {

+	f := clientcmd.New(pflag.NewFlagSet("name", pflag.ContinueOnError))

+

+	oc := NewCommandCLI("oc", "oc", &bytes.Buffer{}, ioutil.Discard, ioutil.Discard)

+	kubectl := kcmd.NewKubectlCommand(f.Factory, nil, ioutil.Discard, ioutil.Discard)

+

+	for _, kubecmd := range kubectl.Commands() {

+		for _, occmd := range oc.Commands() {

+			if kubecmd.Name() == occmd.Name() {

+				ocValidateFlag := occmd.Flags().Lookup("validate")

+				if ocValidateFlag == nil {

+					continue

+				}

+

+				if ocValidateFlag.Value.String() != "false" {

+					t.Errorf("%s --validate is not defaulting to false", occmd.Name())

+				}

+			}

+		}

+	}

+

+}