From your question and your code I deduct that based on the amount of dates that you retrieve (this happens before the actual job starts), you will execute a step for the amount of times you have dates.
I suggest a design change. Create a java class that will get you the dates as a list and based on that list you will dynamically create your steps. Something like this:
@EnableBatchProcessing
public class JobConfig {
@Autowired
private JobBuilderFactory jobBuilderFactory;
@Autowired
private StepBuilderFactory stepBuilderFactory;
@Autowired
private JobDatesCreator jobDatesCreator;
@Bean
public Job executeMyJob() {
List<Step> steps = new ArrayList<Step>();
for (String date : jobDatesCreator.getDates()) {
steps.add(createStep(date));
}
return jobBuilderFactory.get("executeMyJob")
.start(createParallelFlow(steps))
.end()
.build();
}
private Step createStep(String date){
return stepBuilderFactory.get("readStgDbAndExportMasterListStep" + date)
.chunk(your_chunksize)
.reader(your_reader)
.processor(your_processor)
.writer(your_writer)
.build();
}
private Flow createParallelFlow(List<Step> steps) {
SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor taskExecutor = new SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor();
// max multithreading = -1, no multithreading = 1, smart size = steps.size()
taskExecutor.setConcurrencyLimit(1);
List<Flow> flows = steps.stream()
.map(step -> new FlowBuilder<Flow>("flow_" + step.getName()).start(step).build())
.collect(Collectors.toList());
return new FlowBuilder<SimpleFlow>("parallelStepsFlow")
.split(taskExecutor)
.add(flows.toArray(new Flow[flows.size()]))
.build();
}
}
EDIT: added "jobParameter" input (slightly different approach also)
Somewhere on your classpath add the following example .properties file:
sql.statement="select * from awesome"
and add the following annotation to your JobDatesCreator class
@PropertySource("classpath:example.properties")
You can provide specific sql statements as a command line argument as well. From the spring documentation:
you can launch with a specific command line switch (e.g. java -jar
app.jar --name="Spring").
For more info on that see http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/boot-features-external-config.html
The class that gets your dates (why use a tasklet for this?):
@PropertySource("classpath:example.properties")
public class JobDatesCreator {
@Value("${sql.statement}")
private String sqlStatement;
@Autowired
private CommonExportFromStagingDbJobConfig commonJobConfig;
private List<String> dates;
@PostConstruct
private void init(){
// Execute your logic here for getting the data you need.
JdbcTemplate jdbcTemplate = new JdbcTemplate(commonJobConfig.onlineStagingDb);
// acces to your sql statement provided in a property file or as a command line argument
System.out.println("This is the sql statement I provided in my external property: " + sqlStatement);
// for now..
dates = new ArrayList<>();
dates.add("date 1");
dates.add("date 2");
}
public List<String> getDates() {
return dates;
}
public void setDates(List<String> dates) {
this.dates = dates;
}
}
I also noticed that you have alot of duplicate code that you can quite easily refactor. Now for each writer you have something like this:
@Bean
public FlatFileItemWriter<MasterList> division10MasterListFileWriter() {
FlatFileItemWriter<MasterList> writer = new FlatFileItemWriter<>();
writer.setResource(new FileSystemResource(new File(outDir, MerchHierarchyConstants.DIVISION_NO_10 )));
writer.setHeaderCallback(masterListFlatFileHeaderCallback());
writer.setLineAggregator(masterListFormatterLineAggregator());
return writer;
}
Consider using something like this instead:
public FlatFileItemWriter<MasterList> divisionMasterListFileWriter(String divisionNumber) {
FlatFileItemWriter<MasterList> writer = new FlatFileItemWriter<>();
writer.setResource(new FileSystemResource(new File(outDir, divisionNumber )));
writer.setHeaderCallback(masterListFlatFileHeaderCallback());
writer.setLineAggregator(masterListFormatterLineAggregator());
return writer;
}
As not all code is available to correctly replicate your issue, this answer is a suggestion/indication to solve your problem.