archiveArtifacts step failure is not displayed

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      If I surround a General build step (as described in the snippet generator)  in a try-catch block, within a scripted Jenkins file, the error is not caught.

      for example I expected the following code block to mark the build as unstable. But an error is thrown at the archiveArtifacts step.

      node(){
    stage('Failing Archive'){
        try{
            archiveArtifacts 'non existent path'
        }
        catch (err)
        {
            echo 'Archive failed!'
            currentBuild.result = 'UNSTABLE'
        }
    }
}

       
      EDIT (abayer): More generally - CoreStep executions of a SimpleBuildStep (such as archiveArtifacts, which is actually calling the ArtifactArchiver publisher from core), only throw an exception if the SimpleBuildStep itself throws an exception. And as a general rule, failure-but-not-error cases (like the non-existent path case here) of a SimpleBuildStep don't throw an exception, since the FreeStyleBuild they were initially used in would proceed anyway (especially in the case of publishers/recorders, which are the most common SimpleBuildStep implementations), after having set the build status.

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            Assignee:
            Jesse Glick
            Reporter:
            L Wright
            Archiver:
            Jenkins Service Account

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