Has anyone else had any issues when trying to check the approval status of a component? I am using the code below, to check if a component meets the minimum approval status, before performing some logic.

Component component = (Component)engine.GetObject(new TcmUri(itemId, 
                                         itemType, publicationId));

if (component.ApprovalStatus == null 
      || engine.PublishingContext.PublicationTarget.MinApprovalStatus == null
      || component.ApprovalStatus.Position >= 
                engine.PublishingContext.PublicationTarget.MinApprovalStatus.Position)
{
    //some logic
}

However the code fails with the following error if I just run the code. (The line of code it actually fails on is the if statement)

Item tcm:X-XXXX does not meet the minimum approval status

However this is not the case if I remote debug and actually inspect the variables individually when running through (if I don't inspect them it still fails)

I have tagged this as workflow as it's to do with approval status, didn't really know what else to tag it as. So sorry if this is wrong

Has anyone else had any issues when trying to check the approval status of a component? I am using the code below, to check if a component meets the minimum approval status, before performing some logic.

Component component = (Component)engine.GetObject(new TcmUri(itemId, 
                                         itemType, publicationId));

if (component.ApprovalStatus == null 
      || engine.PublishingContext.PublicationTarget.MinApprovalStatus == null
      || component.ApprovalStatus.Position >= 
                engine.PublishingContext.PublicationTarget.MinApprovalStatus.Position)
{
    //some logic
}

However the code fails with the following error if I just run the code. (The line of code it actually fails on is the if statement).

EDIT: Forgot to mention the item doesn't meet the minimum approval status but should just perform the check and not go into the logic.

Item tcm:X-XXXX does not meet the minimum approval status

However this is not the case if I remote debug and actually inspect the variables individually when running through (if I don't inspect them it still fails)

I have tagged this as workflow as it's to do with approval status, didn't really know what else to tag it as. So sorry if this is wrong