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  2. JENKINS-28119

Link to log of failed step

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      When a flow involves many steps, long logs, and/or many branches, it can be hard for a developer receiving a failure email (for example) to quickly see what part of the build actually failed and why. I think it would be useful for the catchError step to do a DFS search on the Throwable and its cause chain through the FlowNode graph starting at the end of the catch step, looking for ErrorAction, and setting/appending an environment variable with the URL of the LogAction. Or provide a new step to do the same. Thus you could write

      def runStuff(param) {
  ...
}
try {
  parallel a: {runStuff 'a'}, b: {runStuff 'b'}
} catch (e) {
  mail to: '...', subject: 'Failure!', body: "Build failed: ${errorUrl(e)}"
}

      and get a link to http://jenkins/job/myflow/123/flowGraph/77/console or the like, according to the actual step in one of the branches that threw the error.

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          depends on

          Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. JENKINS-32059 Workflow script echo back should have line number

          • Minor - Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present.
          • Open
          is duplicated by

          Task - A task that needs to be done. JENKINS-38156 Need branch name and other details from parallel branches

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Resolved
          is related to

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. JENKINS-25894 Ugly reporting of errors from parallel step

          • Minor - Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present.
          • Resolved

          New Feature - A new feature of the product, which has yet to be developed. JENKINS-26107 Allow stage to operate as a labelled block

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed
          relates to

          Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. JENKINS-43995 Individual Pipeline steps and stages/blocks should have Result statuses

          • Critical - Crashes, loss of data, severe memory leak.
          • Resolved
          links to

          Web Link CloudBees Internal UX-616

          Web Link workflow-basic-steps PR 2

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              jglick Jesse Glick
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