Using BitBucket Pipelines, can you trigger a step when it fails?

Question

Is there anyway to tell Pipeline to perform a step ONLY when the pipeline fails?

Mohamed Bana · Answer

I think you want to trap `EXIT` instead as documented here: http://redsymbol.net/articles/bash-exit-traps/.

# print logs from the container when a failure happens
 - |
 function print_logs_on_error {
 echo -e "\033[92m ---> logs reference-mock-server ... \033[0m";
 docker logs reference-mock-server;

echo -e "\033[92m ---> logs ob-api-proxy ... \033[0m";
 docker logs ob-api-proxy;

echo -e "\033[92m ---> logs compliance-suite-server ... \033[0m";
 docker logs compliance-suite-server;
 }
 trap print_logs_on_error EXIT

mwatson · Answer

No, there is currently no functionality like this.

You could look at this open ticket: https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/13317/final-step-required-for-parsing-unit-tests

But it would run a script whenever the step completes, failed or successful.

You could try using a trap in your script to perform operations if your step has failed, e.g. https://www.shellscript.sh/trap.html

Hope this helps!