Fixed reflector not recovering from "Too large resource version" errors with API servers 1.17.0-1.18.5

Kubernetes-commit: e1f4bfe1db8d3975bf626c2c8536dd8076aeb7d4

tools/cache/reflector.go

@@ -570,5 +570,26 @@ func isExpiredError(err error) bool {
 }
 
 func isTooLargeResourceVersionError(err error) bool {
-	return apierrors.HasStatusCause(err, metav1.CauseTypeResourceVersionTooLarge)
+	if apierrors.HasStatusCause(err, metav1.CauseTypeResourceVersionTooLarge) {
+		return true
+	}
+	// In Kubernetes 1.17.0-1.18.5, the api server doesn't set the error status cause to
+	// metav1.CauseTypeResourceVersionTooLarge to indicate that the requested minimum resource
+	// version is larger than the largest currently available resource version. To ensure backward
+	// compatibility with these server versions we also need to detect the error based on the content
+	// of the error message field.
+	if !apierrors.IsTimeout(err) {
+		return false
+	}
+	apierr, ok := err.(apierrors.APIStatus)
+	if !ok || apierr == nil || apierr.Status().Details == nil {
+		return false
+	}
+	for _, cause := range apierr.Status().Details.Causes {
+		// Matches the message returned by api server 1.17.0-1.18.5 for this error condition
+		if cause.Message == "Too large resource version" {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
 }