Bug: while saving external secrets, data is getting corrupted as encoded data is not getting stored in db, so its failing at decoding the base64 encoded data.

[prakash100198]

📜 Description

while saving external secrets, data is getting corrupted as encoded data is not getting stored in db, so its failing at decoding the base64 encoded data.

👟 Reproduction steps

1. create a normal secret
2. now change the type of that secret to external secret (maybe aws, or google secret)
3. and click on save button, it will throw error as illegal base64 encoded data.
4. now refresh the page, secret data is being stored in db irrespective of the error whole saving

👍 Expected behavior

validation should be present initially, should not let secret save in db

👎 Actual Behavior

data getting stored but toast is also visible on the UI

☸ Kubernetes version

1.30

Cloud provider

🌍 Browser

Chrome

🧱 Your Environment

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✅ Proposed Solution

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