[GROOVY-6902] non-interactive groovysh, fail() doesn't set status code

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.2, 2.3.3
• Component/s: Groovysh

Environment

Linux ksc-desktop 3.13.0-29-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 4 21:00:20 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

java version "1.7.0_55"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.4.7) (7u55-2.4.7-1ubuntu1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.51-b03, mixed mode

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Korbinian Schmid
• Created: 30/Jun/14 16:17
• Updated: 13/Jul/15 18:04
• Resolved: 13/Jul/15 18:04

Description

I'm using Groovy 2.3.3 and would like to automate some groovysh script
testing. I noticed that when using Groovy shell in non-interactive mode,
the returned status code of 'groovysh' is always 0 (meaning success)
even if the command failed. As an example:

ksc@ksc-desktop:~$ groovysh ":load non-existent-file.groovy"
File not found: non-existent-file.groovy
ksc@ksc-desktop:~$ echo $?
0

I would expect groovysh to return a non-zero value if there was any
error during execution. It already works if there is an un-caught exception:

ksc@ksc-desktop:~$ groovysh "throw new RuntimeException()"
FATAL: java.lang.RuntimeException
...
ksc@ksc-desktop:~$ echo $?
1