Inheritance problem with 2.1.7-RELEASE

Hello,

I just tried the 2.1.7-RELEASE and my jobs don't run anymore.
After going back to 2.1.6-RELEASE they worked again.

Before I create a JIRA Ticket I need to know if there is an error in my configuration, or if I am missing something....



The problem seems to be in the job definition, with 2.1.7 a more restrictive check for skip/retry limit and the exceptions classes is in place which is okay but somehow my configuration doesn't work. I'm assuming there might be a problem in the inheritance of step settings.

This example doesn't work for me:

Code:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:batch="http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch/spring-batch-2.1.xsd>

  <bean id="myReader" class="org.springframework.batch.item.file.FlatFileItemReader" scope="step">
    <property name="resource" value="file:/#{jobParameters['FILENAME']}" />
    <property name="linesToSkip" value="1" />
    <property name="strict" value="true" />
    <property name="saveState" value="true" />
    <property name="lineMapper">
      <bean class="org.springframework.batch.item.file.mapping.DefaultLineMapper">
        <property name="lineTokenizer">
          <bean class="org.springframework.batch.item.file.transform.DelimitedLineTokenizer">
            <property name="delimiter" value=";" />
            <property name="names" value="f1,f2" />
            <property name="strict" value="true" />
          </bean>
        </property>
      </bean>
    </property>
  </bean>

  <batch:step id="abstractStep" abstract="true">
    <batch:tasklet>
      <batch:chunk skip-limit="20">
        <batch:skippable-exception-classes>
            <batch:include class="java.lang.Exception"/>
        </batch:skippable-exception-classes>
      </batch:chunk>
    </batch:tasklet>
  </batch:step>

  <batch:job id="myJob">
    <batch:step id="myStep" parent="abstractStep">
      <batch:tasklet>
        <batch:chunk reader="myReader" />
      </batch:tasklet>
    </batch:step>
  </batch:job>
</beans>

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When trying to load the spring application context the following error is given:
The field 'skip-limit' is not permitted on the step [myStep] because there is no 'skippable-exception-classes'.

As I have multiple jobs depending on the abstract step, having the "skippable-exception-classes" in every job is not a solution.

Is this a bug or did I miss something?

Best wishes,
Robin

That looks like an unexpected side effect of https://jira.springsource.org/browse/BATCH-1396. So it's a bug. Go ahead and raise a ticket in JIRA. The only workaround I can think of is to specify the exceptions in every step where they are needed.

There is a workaround, I think. You need an empty skippable-exceptions map in all your child steps, e.g.

Code:

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<job id="myJob">
    <step id="myStep" parent="abstractStep">
      <tasklet>
        <chunk reader="myReader">
          <skippable-exception-classes merge="true"/>
        </chunk>
      </tasklet>
    </step>
  </job>

---

Does that work?

Hello Dave,

your suggestion seems to work, although it's a bit hard to guarantee that internally everything works as it should be.

And it sure is a better workaround as copying all the exception classes! Thanks!

Still I'm staying on 2.1.6 for now, and I will create a jira ticket directly after posting this.

Best wishes,
Robin