Respect ignore_error when calling another task from a command

[shilangyu]

• Task version: master
• OS: Linux

When calling task other with the following Taskfiles:

this works, the error is ignored

version: "3"

tasks:
  bad:
    cmds:
      - exit 1
  other:
    cmds:
      - cmd: task bad
        ignore_error: true
      - echo hello

this does not work, nothing is printed

version: "3"

tasks:
  bad:
    cmds:
      - exit 1
  other:
    cmds:
      - task: bad
        ignore_error: true
      - echo hello

[andreynering]

Hi @shilangyu, thanks for opening this issue!

This doesn't work because it was not originally intended to work like this. It may makes sense to respect that, though...

[marco-m]

@andreynering I stumbled upon this exact problem. To me this is a bug, not an enhancement, for the following reason: adding ignore_error to a task has the effect that the task is silently skipped and the user doesn't even understand what is going on :-) If it was not intended to work like this, Task should fail reporting a syntax error I think...

EDIT Ah sorry I take it back; with Task v3.3.0 I do get what I expect:

$ task other
task: exit 1
task: Failed to run task "other": task: Failed to run task "bad": exit status 1

I will create a separate ticket for the problem I stumbled upon

[ivotron]

My 2c is that ignore_error should work the same way when invoking another task. In my case, the workaround I came up with is to create another task that includes ignore_error: true and add an -ignore-error prefix to its name, so:

version: "3"

tasks:
  bad:
    cmds:
      - exit 1
  bad-ignore-error:
    ignore_error: true
    cmds:
      - exit 1
  other:
    cmds:
      - task: bad-ignore-error
      - echo hello

not ideal but gets the job done