Using MultiResourceItemReader with non existing files

[afborroy]

Our batch process downloads several files from different servers and performs operations on it later.

We're using MutiResourceItemReader in that way:

<beans:bean id="multifileWSReader" class="org.springframework.batch.item.file.MultiResourceItemReader" lazy-init="true">
    <beans:property name="resources" value="${loc.working.directory.webserver}/${webserver.file}*" />
    <beans:property name="delegate" ref="flatFileWSItemReader" />
</beans:bean>

When the batch is started, following error message is showed:

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not resolve resource location pattern [D:/batch/data/webservers/trxmin_webserver.log*]: class path resource [D:/batch/data/webservers/] cannot be resolved to URL because it does not exist

Directory D:/batch/data/webservers exists before the execution, but trxmin_webserver.log files are downloaded in a previous step of the batch process.

Thanks!

[DHGarrette]

Try prefixing the resource location with "file:" to indicate that the resource is a FileSystemResource instead of a ClasspathResource (which is probably your default).

<beans:property name="resources" value="file:${loc.working.directory.webserver}/${webserver.file}*" />

[afborroy]

Thanks Dan.

It was too much easy to be obvious...