Modifying Buildbot exit code using compiled java code

Question

I recently began work on continuous integration systems and started to learn how to use Buildbot.

I have a buildslave that runs on every commit, and I wanted to add a new step to parse certain data files after the build has completed and based on the results trigger a build pass/fail.

buildSteps.addStep(shell.ShellCommand( description=["File Parser"], workdir=dataDirectory, command=["call", "ant", "ParseTest"] ) )

At the end of the step, the output resembles this:

    [java] Java Result: 1

    BUILD SUCCESSFUL
    Total time: 38 seconds
    program finished with exit code 0

In the java code I am using System.exit(1) to represent a failure and System.exit(0) to represent success.

So my question is, How can I change the actual exit code to a non-zero value so Buildbot recognizes it as a failed build?

Answer 1

I don't know buildbot but the failonerror attribute from ant java task is default set to false.
So to get a BUILD FAILED if java exits with a returncode other than 0 you have to set the
failonerror attribute from java task to true.