PartitionedHandler: How to pass the step name as an input argument ?

[nicolasduminil]

Hello,

In the partitioned-batch-job project, the partitioned handler is created as follows:

@Bean
public PartitionHandler partitionHandler(TaskLauncher taskLauncher, JobExplorer jobExplorer, TaskRepository taskRepository) throws Exception {
   ...
  DeployerPartitionHandler partitionHandler = new DeployerPartitionHandler(taskLauncher, jobExplorer, resource, "workerStep");
   ...
  return partitionHandler;
}

How could I pass the step name, here "workerStep", as an input argument. I tried to modify the method like below:

@Bean
public PartitionHandler partitionHandler(TaskLauncher taskLauncher, JobExplorer jobExplorer, TaskRepository taskRepository, String stepName) throws Exception {
   ...
  DeployerPartitionHandler partitionHandler = new DeployerPartitionHandler(taskLauncher, jobExplorer, resource, stepName);
   ...
  return partitionHandler;
}

and I adapted the job/step definition, but it didn't work. I got an exception saying that the method requires a bean of the type String that wasn't found. Then I defined a bean:

@Bean
public String stepName() {
  return new String();
}

and the exception is gone. But I don't think that might be a solution.

Could you please advise ?

Many thanks in advance.

[danilko]

Hello,

Thought to also share my attempt (and thanks for raising an issue as I was about to do same thing)

I did pass the partitionhandler creation portion (at least it did not error out, and when adding a debugger message, it did get the step name). But faced a null pointer exception within the launchworker (like within your other issue #793)

Reference article I had on StackOverflow with my attempts (in case interested: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68647761/spring-batch-with-multi-step-spring-cloud-task-partitionhandler-for-remote-p)

I got the job name by using stepContext

    @Bean
    @StepScope
    public PartitionHandler partitionHandler(TaskLauncher taskLauncher,
                                                   JobExplorer jobExplorer,
                                             @Value("#{stepExecution}") StepExecution stepExecution) throws Exception {

        // Then can reference name like
        if(stepExecution.getStepName().equalsIgnoreCase("partitionReaderStep"))
        {
...
        }