Is there a way to output an error message so it displays in the pipeline details pane?

Question

Our pipelines sometimes fail for expected reasons, but which are only obvious to DevOps people (like publish failure because of artifact version conflict which manifests itself with an apparently unrelated error).

Is there a way to set a user-friendly status message in the pipeline details page, like what happens when a step runs out of memory? This would avoid developers having to reach out to IT to interpret the failure from thousands of log lines every time even if we try to catch the error and output something less cryptic.

Theodora Boudale · Answer

Hi François,

I assume that by 'details pane' you are referring to the following?

The message displayed in there cannot be changed manually.

I see that dynamic pipelines provide an option to set this message:

* https://developer.atlassian.com/platform/forge/manifest-reference/modules/bitbucket-dynamic-pipelines-provider/#providererror

However, I haven't been involved with dynamic pipelines development, so I'm not sure if this can be set programmatically depending on the errors of certain commands of your build.

You could reach out to the group 'Forge for Bitbucket Cloud' to ask if your use case can be solved with dynamic pipelines (the team checks the questions there):

* https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Forge-for-Bitbucket-Cloud/gh-p/bitbucket-cloud-forge

Are you looking to do this programmatically or have someone manually set a message?

Kind regards,
Theodora

Aron Gombas _Midori_ · Answer

I think that the general rule is that the pipeline "Build" view (if this is what you mean) captures everything that is written the standard output (stdout).

If you can catch the error you are trying to make easier to understand, and write to the stdout, it should work.