Fail hudson build with groovy script

Question

I have a couple of post build actions that I run on my Hudson build. They are currently bash scripts, and if I want to fail the biuld from them, I just return a non-zero value. Is there a way to fail the build from another scripting language (such as groovy)? Do I just write a script that also returns non-zero? Or is there a particular plugin I need to enable this?

thanks, Jeff

Answer 1

A way to do this programmatically within the Groovy script is:

throw new hudson.AbortException("Something was in my eye...")

Answer 2

The Groovy Postbuild Plugin seems to be what you need, and has a method called buildFailure() which sets the build result to FAILURE.