Powershell script errors not raising the error (exit code 0)

[juanlu]

Hi Oleg,

I have done some tests, and when a powershell script returns an error, it looks like the PowerShell Script action does not raise the error and the exit code is always 0, no matter what. Specially raising the error would be important in order to use the error-handling.

Thanks, Juanlu.

[Oleg]

This is behavior of Powershell application.
For example the script

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$dest ="C:\dest"
New-Item $dest -type directory -force
$source ="D:\somefile.txt"
Copy-Item $source $dest

always returns exit code 0. It doesn't matter if the file exists or not
If source file does not exist the script print error an message to output, but exit code is 0
You must forcibly change the exit code. For example like this:

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$dest ="C:\dest"
New-Item $dest -type directory -force
$source ="D:\somefile.txt"
Copy-Item $source $dest
# this does not work for some reason 
# exit $LastExitCode
exit $error[0].exception.hresult

If the file exists, 0 is returned. Otherwise, the script returns some integer value.

[Oleg]

Another way:
You can save the output to variable and analyze the output text.

[juanlu]

Yes, that's what I ended up doing, analysing the output. Thanks anyway.