org.springframework.batch.core.launch.support
Class CommandLineJobRunner

java.lang.Object
  org.springframework.batch.core.launch.support.CommandLineJobRunner

public class CommandLineJobRunner
extends Object

Basic launcher for starting jobs from the command line. In general, it is assumed that this launcher will primarily be used to start a job via a script from an Enterprise Scheduler. Therefore, exit codes are mapped to integers so that schedulers can use the returned values to determine the next course of action. The returned values can also be useful to operations teams in determining what should happen upon failure. For example, a returned code of 5 might mean that some resource wasn't available and the job should be restarted. However, a code of 10 might mean that something critical has happened and the issue should be escalated.

With any launch of a batch job within Spring Batch, a Spring context containing the Job and the 'Execution Environment' has to be created. This command line launcher can be used to load that context from a single location. It can also load the job as well All dependencies of the launcher will then be satisfied by autowiring by type from the combined application context. Default values are provided for all fields except the JobLauncher and JobLocator. Therefore, if autowiring fails to set it (it should be noted that dependency checking is disabled because most of the fields have default values and thus don't require dependencies to be fulfilled via autowiring) then an exception will be thrown. It should also be noted that even if an exception is thrown by this class, it will be mapped to an integer and returned.

Notice a property is available to set the SystemExiter. This class is used to exit from the main method, rather than calling System.exit() directly. This is because unit testing a class the calls System.exit() is impossible without kicking off the test within a new Jvm, which it is possible to do, however it is a complex solution, much more so than strategizing the exiter.

The arguments to this class are roughly as follows:

java jobPath jobName jobLauncherPath jobParameters...

• jobPath: the xml application context containing a Job
• jobName: the bean id of the job.
• jobLauncherPath: the xml application context containing a JobLauncher
• jobParameters: 0 to many parameters that will be used to launch a job.

The combined application context must only contain one instance of a JobLauncher. The job parameters passed in to the command line will be converted to Properties by assuming that each individual element is one parameter that is separated by an equals sign. For example, "vendor.id=290232". Below is an example arguments list: "

java org.springframework.batch.execution.bootstrap.support.CommandLineJobRunner testJob.xml testJob schedule.date=2008/01/24 vendor.id=3902483920

Once arguments have been successfully parsed, autowiring will be used to set various dependencies. The for example, will be loaded this way. If none is contained in the bean factory (it searches by type) then a BeanDefinitionStoreException will be thrown. The same exception will also be thrown if there is more than one present. Assuming the JobLauncher has been set correctly, the jobName argument will be used to obtain an actual Job. If a JobLocator has been set, then it will be used, if not the beanFactory will be asked, using the jobName as the bean id.

Since:

1.0

Author:

Dave Syer, Lucas Ward

Field Summary

protected static org.apache.commons.logging.Log

logger

Constructor Summary

CommandLineJobRunner()

Method Summary

void	exit(int status) Delegate to the exiter to (possibly) exit the VM gracefully.
static void	main(String[] args) Launch a batch job using a CommandLineJobRunner.
void	setExitCodeMapper(ExitCodeMapper exitCodeMapper) Injection setter for the ExitCodeMapper.
void	setJobLocator(JobLocator jobLocator)
void	setJobParametersConverter(JobParametersConverter jobParametersConverter) Injection setter for JobParametersConverter.
void	setLauncher(JobLauncher launcher) Injection setter for the JobLauncher.
void	setSystemExiter(SystemExiter systemExitor) Injection setter for the SystemExiter.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

logger

protected static final org.apache.commons.logging.Log logger

Constructor Detail

CommandLineJobRunner

public CommandLineJobRunner()

Method Detail

setLauncher

public void setLauncher(JobLauncher launcher)

Injection setter for the JobLauncher.

Parameters:

launcher - the launcher to set

setExitCodeMapper

public void setExitCodeMapper(ExitCodeMapper exitCodeMapper)

Injection setter for the ExitCodeMapper.

Parameters:

exitCodeMapper - the exitCodeMapper to set

setSystemExiter

public void setSystemExiter(SystemExiter systemExitor)

Injection setter for the SystemExiter.

Parameters:

systemExitor -

setJobParametersConverter

public void setJobParametersConverter(JobParametersConverter jobParametersConverter)

Injection setter for JobParametersConverter.

Parameters:

jobParametersConverter -

exit

public void exit(int status)

Delegate to the exiter to (possibly) exit the VM gracefully.

Parameters:

status -

setJobLocator

public void setJobLocator(JobLocator jobLocator)

main

public static void main(String[] args)

Launch a batch job using a CommandLineJobRunner. Creates a new Spring context for the job execution, and uses a common parent for all such contexts. No exception are thrown from this method, rather exceptions are logged and an integer returned through the exit status in a JvmSystemExiter (which can be overridden by defining one in the Spring context).
Parameters can be provided in the form key=value, and will be converted using the injected JobParametersConverter.

Parameters:

args -

• jobPath: the xml application context containing a Job
• jobName: the bean id of the job.
• jobParameters: 0 to many parameters that will be used to launch a job.