Ability to run tasks even with dependency errors and report errors if any

[scr-oath]

Description

When writing a task to invoke testing across various tools and directories, I would like to allow the test task(s) to fail, but to always invoke the junitjoin and testreport tasks to generate the report of what failed (but then have task fail).

Is there any way to allow some tasks to ignore errors of their deps?

Perhaps, like

deps:
  - task: test1
    ignore_errors: true
cmd: echo "do something"

or

cmds:
  - task: test1
    ignore_errors: true
  - echo "do something"

Ultimately the test failure must result in failed task, but the report always be generated.

[scr-oath]

Something like this can be a workaround, but I don't like the need to write to file - maybe there's some way to set a variable as result of a command? I know you can set vars with sh: directives, but not quite sure how to sequence them properly along with the order of commands to run and remember for later…

  cmds:
      - echo 0 > /tmp/status.txt; task tests || echo "$?" > /tmp/status.txt
      - task: junitjoin
      - task: test_report
      - status="$(</tmp/status.txt)"; rm /tmp/status.txt; exit "$status"

[trulede]

@scr-oath Hi, I think you might want something like the defer keyword. With that you can run your tests and then have the deferred task take care to compose the overall result, regardless if an error occurred. You also have that status available in 'EXIT_CODE.

https://taskfile.dev/usage/#doing-task-cleanup-with-defer