IllegalArgumentException : JobExecution must already be saved

Hello all,

I'm trying to run a job in Spring Batch but, at the moment of launching, I get the following exception:

Code:

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java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: JobExecution must already be saved
        at org.springframework.util.Assert.notNull(Assert.java:112)
        at org.springframework.batch.core.repository.dao.MapJobExecutionDao.updateJobExecution(MapJobExecutionDao.java:89)
        at org.springframework.batch.core.repository.support.SimpleJobRepository.update(SimpleJobRepository.java:155)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:309)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:183)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:150)
        at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor.invoke(TransactionInterceptor.java:110)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:202)
        at $Proxy13.update(Unknown Source)
        at org.springframework.batch.core.job.AbstractJob.execute(AbstractJob.java:329)
        at org.springframework.batch.core.launch.support.SimpleJobLauncher$1.run(SimpleJobLauncher.java:120)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)
Exception in thread "jobLauncherTaskExecutor-1" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: JobExecution must already be saved
        at org.springframework.util.Assert.notNull(Assert.java:112)10:22:39,986 DEBUG http-bio-8080-exec-6 datasource.DataSourceUtils:332 - Returning JDBC Connection to DataSource

        at org.springframework.batch.core.repository.dao.MapJobExecutionDao.updateJobExecution(MapJobExecutionDao.java:89)
        at org.springframework.batch.core.repository.support.SimpleJobRepository.update(SimpleJobRepository.java:155)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:309)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:183)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:150)
        at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor.invoke(TransactionInterceptor.java:110)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:202)
        at $Proxy13.update(Unknown Source)
        at org.springframework.batch.core.job.AbstractJob.execute(AbstractJob.java:329)
        at org.springframework.batch.core.launch.support.SimpleJobLauncher$1.run(SimpleJobLauncher.java:120)
10:22:39,986 DEBUG http-bio-8080-exec-6 datasource.DataSourceUtils:332 - Returning JDBC Connection to DataSource
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)

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Truth is I'm quite at a loss trying to figure out what's going on. I'm pretty sure it must be something related to my configuration...

Code:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xmlns:batch="http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch/spring-batch-2.1.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd">
       
       
        <!-- transaction manager associated to the job repository .-->
        <bean id="jobRepository-transactionManager" class="org.springframework.batch.support.transaction.ResourcelessTransactionManager" />
       
        <!-- job repository associated to the job launcher. -->
        <bean id="jobRepository" class="org.springframework.batch.core.repository.support.MapJobRepositoryFactoryBean">
                <property name="transactionManager" ref="jobRepository-transactionManager" />
        </bean>
       
        <!-- job launcher. -->
        <bean id="jobLauncher" class="org.springframework.batch.core.launch.support.SimpleJobLauncher">
                <property name="jobRepository" ref="jobRepository" />
        </bean>

        <!-- define the BULK IMPORT job. -->
        <batch:job id="bulkImport">
                <batch:step id="bulkImportSingleStep">
                        <batch:tasklet>
                                <batch:chunk reader="bulkImportReader" processor="bulkImportCompositeProcessor" writer="commonWriter" commit-interval="2" />
                        </batch:tasklet>
                </batch:step>
        </batch:job>

        <bean id="bulkImportCompositeProcessor" class="org.springframework.batch.item.support.CompositeItemProcessor">
                <property name="delegates">
                        <list>
                                <bean class="com.playence.platform.processors.BulkImportBasicSteps" />
                                <bean class="com.playence.platform.processors.FileSystemUploadProcessor" />
                                <bean class="com.playence.platform.processors.TranscriptionExtractionProcessor" />
                                <bean class="com.playence.platform.processors.IndexingProcessor" />
                        </list>
                </property>
        </bean>
       
        <!-- bulk import specific beans. -->
        <!-- Virtual File System manager & reader. -->
        <bean id="bulkImportManager" class="com.playence.platform.io.BulkImportManager">
                <constructor-arg>
                        <value>localFile</value>
                </constructor-arg>
        </bean>
        <bean id="bulkImportReader" class="com.playence.platform.readers.BulkImportReaderImpl" scope="step">
                <property name="vfsManager">
                        <ref bean="bulkImportManager" />
                </property>
                <property name="protocol" value="localFile"/>
                <property name="pathToLoad" value="#{jobParameters['pathToLoad']}"/>
        </bean>
       
        <!-- general beans. -->
        <!-- writer. -->
        <bean id="commonWriter" class="com.playence.platform.writers.Writer"/>
        <!-- transcriptionExtractionProcessor -->
        <bean id="transcriptionExtractionProcessor" class="com.playence.platform.processors.TranscriptionExtractionProcessor"/>

        <!-- storage beans. -->
        <bean id="fileSystemStorageService" class="com.playence.platform.uploaders.FileSystemUploader">
        </bean>

</beans>

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I would greatly appreciate if anyone could point at what's wrong here. Perhaps it is related to some issue with the database?

Thanks, and regards,
cR.

My gut feeling would be that it is due to the fact that you've named the transaction manager jobRepository-transactionManager instead of just transactionManager. This prevents the step from being autowired with the transaction manager. I took your configuration and ran it as is (swapping in my own reader/processor/writer) and with the transaction manager named as you did, I got the exception that the transactionManager was not being set on the step. Once I renamed the transaction manager, the job completed fine.