ExternalProcess: How to check for more than one return codes from an external process?

[norbyltd]

The  checkReturnCode() method - https://docs.atlassian.com/bamboo/5.1/com/atlassian/bamboo/task/TaskResultBuilder.html#checkReturnCode(com.atlassian.utils.process.ExternalProcess,%20int) - has the unfortunate behavior that is documented as "Will only check tests if the build state has not been set to Failed for some other reason.".

This means that you cannot check for more than one exit code, because if you check for the first and it fails (i.e. it is not that code), you will not be able to check another one that might have succeeded.

How can I workaround this?

Alternatively, is there a way to just retrieve the return code?  That would solve the problem.

[norbyltd]

Answering my own question:

You can call builder.success().build() to reset the TaskResultBuilder 'builder' to a success state, and then checkReturnCode() will not be ignored.