Spring batch job exit status for failed step

Question

I recently upgraded an old application using Spring Batch 2.2.0 to 3.0.5. I made the necessary changes to the DB tables and some minute code changes related to parameter APIs.

Now when I run the application it is working but if a step's exit status is FAILED the job's exist status is set to COMPLETED. This is causing issues as our application code treats this as a successful execution. I am getting around it by adding a code snippet in afterJob() where I check the stepExecution list and set the job exit status manually, but shouldn't the Spring Batch framework take care of the exit status?

Is there anything that I missed while upgrading?

Ref: http://docs.spring.io/spring-batch/reference/html/configureJob.html

Answer 1

If you are using the Java based configuration, you could add .on(ExitStatus.FAILED.getExitCode()).fail() to a step that should cause the job's exit status to be FAILED:

jobBuilderFactory.get("jobName")
    .start(firstStep())
    .next(secondStep()).on(ExitStatus.FAILED.getExitCode()).fail()
    .next(thirdStep())
    .end()
    .build()

Answer 2

You can use <fail> transition element inside <job> to instruct a Job to stop with a BatchStatus and ExisStatus of FAILED.

<step id="step2" parent="s2">
    <fail on="FAILED" />
    <next on="*" to="step3"/>
</step>