kustomize: Regression: Resource with generateName builds with 4.1.1, fails with anything later

Describe the bug

We’d like to reproduce the “slack notification” example from https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user-guide/resource_hooks/, which involves the use of generateName. In the past, we’ve handled that by defining the resource like:

metadata:
  name: name-prefix-

And then patching that in our kustomization.yaml:

patches:
  - patch: |
      op: move
      from: /metadata/name
      path: /metadata/generateName

This worked fine with 4.1.1, but in anything more recent kustomize fails.

Files that can reproduce the issue

Resource manifests

In slack-notifications.yaml:

apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: Job
metadata:
  name: app-slack-notification-
  annotations:
    argocd.argoproj.io/hook: PostSync
    argocd.argoproj.io/hook-delete-policy: HookSucceeded
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: slack-notification
        image: curlimages/curl
        command:
          - "curl"
          - "-X"
          - "POST"
          - "--data-urlencode"
          - "payload={\"channel\": \"#somechannel\", \"username\": \"hello\", \"text\": \"App Sync succeeded\", \"icon_emoji\": \":ghost:\"}"
          - "https://hooks.slack.com/services/..."
      restartPolicy: Never
  backoffLimit: 2
---
apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: Job
metadata:
  name: app-slack-notification-fail-
  annotations:
    argocd.argoproj.io/hook: SyncFail
    argocd.argoproj.io/hook-delete-policy: HookSucceeded
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: slack-notification
        image: curlimages/curl
        command:
          - "curl"
          - "-X"
          - "POST"
          - "--data-urlencode"
          - "payload={\"channel\": \"#somechannel\", \"username\": \"hello\", \"text\": \"App Sync failed\", \"icon_emoji\": \":ghost:\"}"
          - "https://hooks.slack.com/services/..."
      restartPolicy: Never
  backoffLimit: 2

Kustomization.yaml

With this kustomization.yaml, 4.1.1 works, and 4.2.0 and later fail:

apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Kustomization
resources:
  - slack-notification.yaml

patches:
  - target:
      group: batch
      version: v1
      kind: Job
      name: app-slack-notification-
    patch: |-
      - op: move
        from: /metadata/name
        path: /metadata/generateName
  - target:
      group: batch
      version: v1
      kind: Job
      name: app-slack-notification-fail-
    patch: |-
      - op: move
        from: /metadata/name
        path: /metadata/generateName

With kustomize 4.2.0 (and 4.3.0):

$ kustomize420 build
Error: expected match for sorting: multiple matches for Current batch_v2_Job|~X|~N

With kustomize 4.4.0:

$ kustomize440 build
Error: missing metadata.name in object {{batch/v1 Job} {{ } map[] map[argocd.argoproj.io/hook:PostSync argocd.argoproj.io/hook-delete-policy:HookSucceeded internal.config.kubernetes.io/previousKinds:Job internal.config.kubernetes.io/previousNames:app-slack-notification- internal.config.kubernetes.io/previousNamespaces:default]}}

Expected output

The expected output is produced by version 4.1.1:

apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: Job
metadata:
  annotations:
    argocd.argoproj.io/hook: PostSync
    argocd.argoproj.io/hook-delete-policy: HookSucceeded
  generateName: app-slack-notification-
spec:
  backoffLimit: 2
  template:
    spec:
      containers:
      - command:
        - curl
        - -X
        - POST
        - --data-urlencode
        - 'payload={"channel": "#somechannel", "username": "hello", "text": "App Sync
          succeeded", "icon_emoji": ":ghost:"}'
        - https://hooks.slack.com/services/...
        image: curlimages/curl
        name: slack-notification
      restartPolicy: Never
---
apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: Job
metadata:
  annotations:
    argocd.argoproj.io/hook: SyncFail
    argocd.argoproj.io/hook-delete-policy: HookSucceeded
  generateName: app-slack-notification-fail-
spec:
  backoffLimit: 2
  template:
    spec:
      containers:
      - command:
        - curl
        - -X
        - POST
        - --data-urlencode
        - 'payload={"channel": "#somechannel", "username": "hello", "text": "App Sync
          failed", "icon_emoji": ":ghost:"}'
        - https://hooks.slack.com/services/...
        image: curlimages/curl
        name: slack-notification
      restartPolicy: Never

Actual output

No output, kustomize fails with an error

Kustomize version

Tested with kustomize versions 4.1.1, 4.2.0, 4.3.0, and 4.4.0

Platform

Linux amd64