Notification on failure

[devster]

It might happen, even with non-strict, that some movies aren't matched (e.g. different year in the file compared to TheMovieDB).
Is there a way to have FileBot notify this failure?
I don't think it works with Pushover or similar, they seem to fire only on success.
Should this be something to be checked in the post-process script outside of FileBot?

[rednoah]

Does --def reportError=y do what you want? I think error reporting only works with email notifications, but not with other custom notifications.

Alternatively, you can do your own error reporting if the filebot call returns a non-zero exit code. That way you can attach the entire console output as well as filebot will have stopped running.

[devster]

It would do exactly what I want, but as you mentioned it only does emails.
I'll use that for now, but for the sake of argument, how would the second option you mentioned work?

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# ... restofthescript ...
exit_code=$?
if [ $exit_code -eq 1 ]; then
    echo "Error"
    # whatever else
fi
exit $exit_code

but I'm missing how I can

[...] That way you can attach the entire console output as well as filebot will have stopped running.

[rednoah]

1.
Run the amc script and redirect the console output to a file.

2.
Check the return code after running the amc script to see if it exited successfully, and if not, do your own error reporting as you see fit.

e.g.

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if filebot -version; then
   echo "FileBot works"
else
   echo "FileBot doesn't work"
fi

Alternatively, if you're looking for a very specific error condition, then you could check the console output for certain keywords, and then run our own error reporting commands accordingly.



If you're on Linux, then that's bash basics. If you're on Windows, then it's possible with CMD, but probably painful, so best to go with PowerShell. It should be fairly straight forward.

[devster]

Does FileBot have specific exit codes for failures besides the Java codes for things like non-existing files or HTTP errors?
From ArgumentProcessor I only seem to understand that it exits 1 on any error and prints an error message depending on the class and stuff (findCause function).
Anyway, main issue is solved so I'll manage with the current solution.

[rednoah]

The error code indeed only indicates success or failure. The exact nature of the failure is only accessible by skimming the log.

e.g.

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filebot -script fn:sysinfo > stdout.txt 2> stderr.txt

if cat stderr.txt | egrep "DNS|Network|Server"; then
    echo "Some kind of network exception occurred"
fi