Jenkins powershell plugin always builds successfully

Question

I\'m using Jenkins PowerShell plugin to build a project.

However, I found that Jenkins always considers my build successful no matter what I type inside Windows P

Answer 1

I want to add here that I just ran into a quirk: you must have the powershell script end with exit and not return.

My jenkins pipe looked like:

script {
  result = powershell(returnStatus: true, script: '''...if(error condition) { return 1 }''')

  if(result) { error }
}

I was using if(error condition) { return 1 } and while the 1 was showing up as the return value in the jenkins console, it was not failing the build. When i used if(error condition) { exit 1 }, the build failed as expected.

I think this is a helpful addition to this thread - the need to use exit and not return. But I don't understand this part: the pipe is checking for result to be non-zero. What is the difference between exit and return in a powershell directive that makes if(result) { error } not work as expected when using return?