jenkins pipeline post actions not working

Question

I setup a post action like in the examples:

pipeline {
    agent any
    stages {
        stage('Example1') {
            steps {
                bat 'return 1'                    
            }
        stage('Example2') {
            steps {
                echo 'Wont see this'
            }
        }
    }
    post { 
        always { 
            echo 'I will always say Hello'
        }
    }
}

So I do something in the first stage to make it fail. And I have a post action that always runs, but what happens when I run my pipeline in blueocean is it fails at the first stage and then just stops. Where do I see the post action that is always supposed to run??

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 04 '19 at 10:32

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Kind of late to the party but you have to use catchError before any steps that may fail. Something like this:

steps {
  catchError {
    bat 'return 1' 
  }             
}

answered Jul 04 '19 at 10:32

real_kappa_guy

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 16 '17 at 06:32

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I hade a similar problem when I used agent none at the beginning of the pipeline. Try using a node in your post action:

post {
    always {
        node('master') {
            echo 'I will always say Hello'
        }
     }
}

answered Aug 16 '17 at 06:32

Daniel Steinmann

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Now I'm confused. Agent is descriptive node is scripted. So why does it have to be a scripted action and how does Jenkins treat it differently? – red888 Aug 16 '17 at 14:19
Good question, but I don't know the inner workings of Jenkins. I just noticed that specifying a `node` made my post action working. – Daniel Steinmann Aug 16 '17 at 14:34
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If it's not working for you, why is it the accepted answer? – seeafish Feb 15 '18 at 11:33

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