Act on errors in NPM commands run from PowerShell

Question

I have an NPM command that I am running from PowerShell:

npm install process-migrator -g 
process-migrator

This command returns an error when its not configured properly, but I cant seam to pick it up in PowerShell.

[ERROR] [2018-09-25T15:30:30.610Z] Cannot find configuration file 'configuration.json'
[INFORMATION] [2018-09-25T15:30:30.615Z] Generated configuration file as 'configuration.json', please fill in required information and retry.

Is there some way to get the error?

I have tried:

if($?) {            
   Write-Host "Process-Migrator completed sucessfully." $LASTEXITCODE           
} else {   
   Write-VstsTaskError "Process-Migrator FAILED " $LASTEXITCODE -ErrCode $LASTEXITCODE
} 
Process-Migrator completed sucessfully. 1

But $? is returning true and $LASTEXITCODE is a 1.

Maximilian Burszley · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-26 16:48:05Z

5

You will need to capture the output of the application first:

$output = & 'process-migrator.exe' 2>&1
if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0)
{
    $err = $output.Where{$PSItem -match 'ERROR'}
    Write-VstsTaskError "Process-Migrator FAILED: $err" -ErrCode $LASTEXITCODE
}

Note: I made an assumption about the extension to be more granular with the execution

edited Sep 26, 2018 at 16:48

answered Sep 25, 2018 at 16:34

Maximilian Burszley

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Bruno Bieri Over a year ago

Can you explain what the first & sign means after the $output =?

Bruno Bieri Over a year ago

For future visitors: I added the following line within the if statement to pass the exit code to the poweshell exit like that: exit $LASTEXITCODE;

Maximilian Burszley Over a year ago

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