How to throw exception in jenkins pipeline?

Question

I have handled the Jenkins pipeline steps with try catch blocks. I want to throw an exception manually for some cases. but it shows the below error.

org.jenkinsci.plugins.scriptsecurity.sandbox.RejectedAccessException: Scripts not permitted to use new java.io.IOException java.lang.String

I checked the scriptApproval section and there is no pending approvals.

Answer 1

If you want to abort your program on exception, you can use pipeline step error to stop the pipeline execution with an error. Example :

try {
  // Some pipeline code
} catch(Exception e) {
   // Do something with the exception 

   error "Program failed, please read logs..."
}

If you want to stop your pipeline with a success status, you probably want to have some kind of boolean indicating that your pipeline has to be stopped, e.g:

boolean continuePipeline = true
try {
  // Some pipeline code
} catch(Exception e) {
   // Do something with the exception 

   continuePipeline = false
   currentBuild.result = 'SUCCESS'
}

if(continuePipeline) {
   // The normal end of your pipeline if exception is not caught. 
}