Read all rows before processing

Is there a way to read all items (other than setting the commit-interval to a high number) before processing? I know this goes against the chunk processing setup but I need to read all rows from a table and then start processing/writing. I would have thought that this should be doable by setting commit-interval=0 but I don't think that works.

I was able to get it to work using the following:

Code:

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                                chunk-completion-policy="completionPolicy">
                          </chunk>
                        </tasklet>                       
                </step>
    </job>   
    <bean id="completionPolicy" class="org.springframework.batch.repeat.policy.DefaultResultCompletionPolicy"/>

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The reason I don't like this solution is because it takes a long time. I turned debug on and I see thousands of lines that look like this:

Code:

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DEBUG [org.springframework.batch.repeat.support.RepeatTemplate] - <Repeat operation about to start at count=465>                                     
DEBUG [org.springframework.core.env.StandardEnvironment] - <Initializing new StandardEnvironment>                                                   
DEBUG [org.springframework.core.env.StandardEnvironment] - <Adding [systemProperties] PropertySource with lowest search precedence>                 
DEBUG [org.springframework.core.env.StandardEnvironment] - <Adding [systemEnvironment] PropertySource with lowest search precedence>                 
DEBUG [org.springframework.core.env.StandardEnvironment] - <Initialized StandardEnvironment with PropertySources [systemProperties,systemEnvironment]>
DEBUG [org.springframework.core.env.StandardEnvironment] - <Initializing new StandardEnvironment>                                                   
DEBUG [org.springframework.core.env.StandardEnvironment] - <Adding [systemProperties] PropertySource with lowest search precedence>                 
DEBUG [org.springframework.core.env.StandardEnvironment] - <Adding [systemEnvironment] PropertySource with lowest search precedence>                 
DEBUG [org.springframework.core.env.StandardEnvironment] - <Initialized StandardEnvironment with PropertySources [systemProperties,systemEnvironment]>
DEBUG [org.springframework.core.env.StandardEnvironment] - <Initializing new StandardEnvironment>                                                   
DEBUG [org.springframework.core.env.StandardEnvironment] - <Adding [systemProperties] PropertySource with lowest search precedence>                 
DEBUG [org.springframework.core.env.StandardEnvironment] - <Adding [systemEnvironment] PropertySource with lowest search precedence>                 
DEBUG [org.springframework.core.env.StandardEnvironment] - <Initialized StandardEnvironment with PropertySources [systemProperties,systemEnvironment]>
DEBUG [org.springframework.core.env.StandardEnvironment] - <Initializing new StandardEnvironment>                                                   
DEBUG [org.springframework.core.env.StandardEnvironment] - <Adding [systemProperties] PropertySource with lowest search precedence>                 
DEBUG [org.springframework.core.env.StandardEnvironment] - <Adding [systemEnvironment] PropertySource with lowest search precedence>                 
DEBUG [org.springframework.core.env.StandardEnvironment] - <Initialized StandardEnvironment with PropertySources [systemProperties,systemEnvironment]>
DEBUG [org.springframework.core.env.StandardEnvironment] - <Initializing new StandardEnvironment>                                                   
DEBUG [org.springframework.core.env.StandardEnvironment] - <Adding [systemProperties] PropertySource with lowest search precedence>                 
DEBUG [org.springframework.core.env.StandardEnvironment] - <Adding [systemEnvironment] PropertySource with lowest search precedence>                 
DEBUG [org.springframework.core.env.StandardEnvironment] - <Initialized StandardEnvironment with PropertySources [systemProperties,systemEnvironment]>

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