[JENKINS-72593] Publish HTML exception is not throwing error to upstream

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When `publishReports` function throws IOException, it does not forward the exception to main pipeline script. The exception is just catched within the plugin function and set build result as Failure.

 

The impact for the above is CRITICAL as the main pipeline script should fail the stage than continuing since build result is Failure.

 

public static boolean publishReports(Run build, FilePath workspace, TaskListener listener,
...
} catch (IOException e) {                
    Util.displayIOException(e, listener);
    e.printStackTrace(listener.fatalError("HTML Publisher failure"));                
    build.setResult(Result.FAILURE);
    return true; // THROW ERROR INSTEAD OF RETURING
} 

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Originally reported by shereifsrf, imported from: Publish HTML exception is not throwing error to upstream

• assignee: r2b2_nz
• status: Open
• priority: Critical
• component(s): htmlpublisher-plugin
• resolution: Unresolved
• votes: 0
• watchers: 1
• imported: 20251211-193728

Raw content of original issue

When `publishReports` function throws IOException, it does not forward the exception to main pipeline script. The exception is just catched within the plugin function and set build result as Failure.

 

The impact for the above is CRITICAL as the main pipeline script should fail the stage than continuing since build result is Failure.

 

public static boolean publishReports(Run<?, ?> build, FilePath workspace, TaskListener listener,
...
} catch (IOException e) {                
    Util.displayIOException(e, listener);
    e.printStackTrace(listener.fatalError("HTML Publisher failure"));                
    build.setResult(Result.FAILURE);
    return true; // THROW ERROR INSTEAD OF RETURING
}