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How To Propagate Context Information Throw Spring Batch

Introduction

While developing applications using Spring batch, we sometimes face one or most of the following cases:

  • The necessity of getting the security context to call methods or perform processing that requires security authorization.
  • Propagating the trace Id and Span Id required by Sleuth in micro-service context.
  • Getting the user Locale (i18n) in order to generate internationalized output.
  • Printing MDC information.

Those cases can be resolved by passing the context information as job parameters and restoring them before the job or step runs using JobExecutionListener or StepExecutionListener, respectively, according to the execution configuration made (One thread per job or thread pool that).

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Consistent Error Propagation and Handling in Java

Learn more about consistent error handling and propagation in Java.

Every application lives in the real world, and the real world is not perfect. So even the ideal, bug-free application is doomed to deal with errors from time to time.

The problem has existed since the birth of the first computer program, and software engineers invented many ways to deal with errors!