feat(actions): implement jobs.<job_id>.continue-on-error (#38100)

Support `continue-on-error` for workflow jobs when aggregating an
Actions workflow run status.

Previously, `continue-on-error` was parsed from workflow YAML but was
not persisted or used when calculating the overall run result. As a
result, a failed job could incorrectly fail the entire workflow even
when the workflow explicitly allowed that job to fail.

This PR stores the parsed `continue-on-error` value on each action run
job and treats failed jobs with `continue-on-error: true` as successful
when computing the workflow run status, matching GitHub Actions
behavior.

## Changes

- Add `ContinueOnError` to `jobparser.Job`.
- Add `continue_on_error` to `ActionRunJob` with a `NOT NULL DEFAULT
FALSE` migration.
- Populate `ActionRunJob.ContinueOnError` when creating workflow run
jobs.
- Update workflow status aggregation so failed `continue-on-error` jobs
do not fail the overall run.
- Leave `resolveCheckNeeds` unchanged so dependent jobs still see the
job result as `failure` and are skipped by default.

## Compatibility

This is backward compatible.

If only the runner or only the server is updated, `continue-on-error`
continues to degrade to the previous behavior and is effectively ignored
until both sides support it.

Related runner PR: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1032

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Signed-off-by: bircni <bircni@icloud.com>
Co-authored-by: Lunny Xiao <xiaolunwen@gmail.com>
This commit is contained in:
bircni
2026-06-22 04:51:16 +00:00
committed by GitHub
co-authored by Lunny Xiao
parent 2c2611eab9
commit 7684221ed4
16 changed files with 268 additions and 36 deletions
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@@ -108,6 +108,10 @@ type ActionRunJob struct {
// ParentJobID scopes `Needs` resolution: name lookups happen only among rows sharing the same ParentJobID. 0 for top-level rows.
ParentJobID int64 `xorm:"index NOT NULL DEFAULT 0"`
// ContinueOnError mirrors the job-level continue-on-error field from the workflow YAML.
// When true, a failure of this job does not fail the overall workflow run.
ContinueOnError bool `xorm:"NOT NULL DEFAULT FALSE"`
Started timeutil.TimeStamp
Stopped timeutil.TimeStamp
Created timeutil.TimeStamp `xorm:"created"`
@@ -500,9 +504,12 @@ func AggregateJobStatus(jobs []*ActionRunJob) Status {
allSkipped := len(jobs) != 0
var hasFailure, hasCancelled, hasCancelling, hasWaiting, hasRunning, hasBlocked bool
for _, job := range jobs {
allSuccessOrSkipped = allSuccessOrSkipped && (job.Status == StatusSuccess || job.Status == StatusSkipped)
// A failed job with continue-on-error:true does not fail the workflow run.
// It counts as a "continued failure" and is treated like success for aggregation.
isContinuedFailure := job.ContinueOnError && job.Status == StatusFailure
allSuccessOrSkipped = allSuccessOrSkipped && (job.Status == StatusSuccess || job.Status == StatusSkipped || isContinuedFailure)
allSkipped = allSkipped && job.Status == StatusSkipped
hasFailure = hasFailure || job.Status == StatusFailure
hasFailure = hasFailure || (job.Status == StatusFailure && !job.ContinueOnError)
hasCancelled = hasCancelled || job.Status == StatusCancelled
hasCancelling = hasCancelling || job.Status == StatusCancelling
hasWaiting = hasWaiting || job.Status == StatusWaiting
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@@ -48,3 +48,57 @@ func TestStatusFromResult(t *testing.T) {
assert.Equal(t, tt.want, StatusFromResult(tt.result), "result=%s", tt.result)
}
}
func newJob(status Status, continueOnError bool) *ActionRunJob {
return &ActionRunJob{Status: status, ContinueOnError: continueOnError}
}
func TestAggregateJobStatusContinueOnError(t *testing.T) {
cases := []struct {
name string
jobs []*ActionRunJob
want Status
}{
{
name: "all success",
jobs: []*ActionRunJob{newJob(StatusSuccess, false), newJob(StatusSuccess, false)},
want: StatusSuccess,
},
{
name: "one failure without continue-on-error",
jobs: []*ActionRunJob{newJob(StatusSuccess, false), newJob(StatusFailure, false)},
want: StatusFailure,
},
{
name: "one failure with continue-on-error",
jobs: []*ActionRunJob{newJob(StatusSuccess, false), newJob(StatusFailure, true)},
want: StatusSuccess,
},
{
name: "only continued-failure",
jobs: []*ActionRunJob{newJob(StatusFailure, true)},
want: StatusSuccess,
},
{
name: "continued-failure plus real failure",
jobs: []*ActionRunJob{newJob(StatusFailure, true), newJob(StatusFailure, false)},
want: StatusFailure,
},
{
name: "all skipped",
jobs: []*ActionRunJob{newJob(StatusSkipped, false), newJob(StatusSkipped, false)},
want: StatusSkipped,
},
{
name: "continued-failure plus skipped counts as success",
jobs: []*ActionRunJob{newJob(StatusFailure, true), newJob(StatusSkipped, false)},
want: StatusSuccess,
},
}
for _, tt := range cases {
t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
assert.Equal(t, tt.want, AggregateJobStatus(tt.jobs))
})
}
}