How to handle failures gracefully (possibly with custom status)

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I have a CI pipeline, with a parent-children format but I believe this hierarchy is not affecting the case. In the child pipeline, there’s a stage where multiple jobs are run in parallel, and the next stage starts after all finishes (successfully or not, as I’ve enabled allow_failure for different jobs in the former stage, and the latter stage has needs with optional enabled).

I would like to control the status of the parallel jobs. These actually run on small clusters of data, and before completing the process, I know how many passed. I would like to return different exit codes (say, 3 different codes for all passed, at least one passed, all failed). I can return 0/1/2, or any code of my choice, but as far as I can see, differentiation between complete or partial failure is not possible.

Question: Is there some other feature which can handle this? Is it possible to show a status of my choice, or some other way to handle these in exit_codes option?

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Would setting variables in the after_script of each of the parallel jobs enable this functionality?

Job 1 sets Variable1 = true if passed
Job 2 sets Variable 2 = true if passed
Job 3 sets Variable 3 = true if passed

Job 4 reads Variable 1-3 and can determine the pipeline status to build next steps.

Just brain storming here not sure if this is something you already looked at or not.

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Hi, thanks for the response.

I think I may have explained my problem wrong. The codes of all stages, the one with parallel and the one later, already supports all 3 cases. Whatever be the scenario, it’ll perform accordingly. My issue is the display in UI.

  1. If all works, I want to see :white_check_mark:
  2. If all fails, I want to see :x:
  3. If some passes and some fails, I want to see :exclamation:

Also, it would be very nice to have a feature if the message displayed while hovering can be controlled by me.

Does it help?