jenkins notifying error occured in different steps by sending mail in Pipeline (former known as Workflow)

Question

I have a pipeline with multiple steps, for example:

stage \'dev - compile\'
node(\'master\') {
  //do something
}

stage \'test- compile\'
node(\'master\') {         


        

Answer 1

Well, your idea is absolutely correct, you just need to move mail after the catch block or use finally. Examples (in pseudocode):

try {
    //code
    email = 'success'
} catch(Exception e) { 
    // error handler: logging
    email = 'failure'
}
send email

Or the same approach using the catchError pipeline built-in:

result = 'failure'
catchError { // this catches all exceptions and set the build result
    //code
    result = 'success' // we will reach this point only if no exception was thrown
}
send result 

Or using finally:

try {
    //code
} finally { 
    send email
}