How to make the job fail via code after handling exception

[kjoth]

Hi , We are capturing the exception if an error occurs using try except. But we want the job status to be failed once we got the exception. Whats the best way to do that.

We are using pyspark.

[Hubert-Dudek]

try:
 ...
except Exception as error:
  dbutils.notebook.exit(str(jobId) + ' - ERROR!!! - ' + repr(error))

[kjoth]

Would it work if we are not running notebook based jobs?

[Kaniz_Fatma]

Hi @karthick J​ , This link shall help you.

[kjoth]

Thanks for sharing the link. It doesn't help much for the case.

[jose_gonzalez]

Hi @karthick J​ ,

Please try the code below:

# Errors in workflows thrown a WorkflowException.

def run_with_retry(notebook, timeout, args = {}, max_retries = 3):

num_retries = 0

while True:

try:

return dbutils.notebook.run(notebook, timeout, args)

except Exception as e:

if num_retries > max_retries:

raise e

else:

print("Retrying error", e)

num_retries += 1

run_with_retry("LOCATION_OF_CALLEE_NOTEBOOK", 60, max_retries = 5)

For more info please check the docs https://docs.databricks.com/notebooks/notebook-workflows.html#handle-errors

[Anonymous]

Hi @karthick J​ 

Hope you are well.

Just wanted to see if you were able to find an answer to your question?  If yes, would you be happy to mark it as best so that other members can find the solution more quickly?

Cheers!

[kjoth]

No, didnt get the solution. Maybe there isnt one for this use case.

[lcalca95]

Hi,

I've build a job on a python wheel and I've obtained the opposite behaviour (the job failed). I'm using a try/except like your. I've also tried to create a job from a simple notebook and now the job succeded!

Someone knows why the behaviour changes in relation to the format?

[AkA]

Instead of exiting the notebook which make the task/job success, Exception objects needs to be raised again from Exception block to fail the job.

try:

<you code>

except Exception as err:

<your block of exception handling>

raise err

[kumar_ravi]

you can do some hack arround

   dbutils = get_dbutils(spark)

    tables_with_exceptions = []

    for table_config in table_configs:

        try:

            process(spark, table_config)

        except Exception as e:

            exception_detail = f"Error processing table {table_config.table_name}: {e}"

            tables_with_exceptions.append(exception_detail)

    if tables_with_exceptions:

        for exception in tables_with_exceptions:

            print(exception)

        raise RuntimeError(f"Job failed with exceptions: {tables_with_exceptions}")

    else:

        dbutils.notebook.exit("completed without exceptions")