Kubernetes rest api to check if namespace is created and active - kubernetes

Question

I call the below rest api with post body to create a namespace in kubernetes
http://kuberneteshot/api/v1/namespaces/
{
"apiVersion": "v1",
"kind": "Namespace",
"metadata": {
"name": "testnamespace"
}
}
In response i get the http status 201 created and the below json response
{
"kind": "Namespace",
"apiVersion": "v1",
"metadata": {
"name": "testnamespace",
"selfLink": "/api/v1/namespaces/testnamespace",
"uid": "701ff75e-5781-11e6-a48a-74dbd1a0fb73",
"resourceVersion": "57825525",
"creationTimestamp": "2016-08-01T00:46:52Z",
},
"spec": {
"finalizers": [
"kubernetes"
]
},
"status": {
"phase": "Active"
}
}
Does the status in response with phase as Active mean the namespace is successfully created and active ?
Is there any other rest api to check if the namespace exists and is active ?
The reason i would like to know if the namespace is created is because i get an error message if i fire create pod before the namespace is actually created:
Error from server: error when creating "./pod.json": pods "my-pod" is
forbidden: service account username/default was not found, retry after
the service account is created
The below works fine if i give a sleep of 5 seconds between create namespace and create pod command
kubectl delete namespace testnamepsace;kubectl create namespace
testnamepsace;sleep 5;kubectl create -f ./pod.json
--namespace=testnamepsace
If i don't give the sleep of 5 seconds i see the error message mentioned above

Answer 1

Apparently your Pod has a hard dependency on the default ServiceAccount, so you probably want to check it's been created instead of looking only at the namespace state. The existence of the namespace doesn't guarantee the immediate availability of your default ServiceAccount.
Some API endpoints you might want to query:
GET /api/v1/namespaces/foo/serviceaccounts/default
returns 200 with the object description if the ServiceAccount default exists in the namespace foo, 404 otherwise
GET /api/v1/serviceaccounts?fieldSelector=metadata.namespace=foo,metadata.name=default
returns 200 and a list of all ServiceAccount items in the namespace foo with name default (empty list if no object matches)

Answer 2

Yes, the namespace is persisted prior to being returned from the create API call. The returned object shows the status of the namespace as Active.
You can also do GET http://kubernetehost/api/v1/namespaces/testnamespace to retrieve the same information.