Storing in JobExecutionContext from tasklet and accessing in another tasklet

Question

I have a requirement in which a tasklet, stores all the files in the directories in an arraylist. The size of the list is stored in the job execution context. Later this cou

Answer 1

Another way is to use StepExecutionListener which is called after step execution. Your tasklet can implements it and share local attribute.

public class ReadingJobExecutionContextTasklet implements Tasklet, StepExecutionListener {
    private String value;

    @Override
    public ExitStatus afterStep(StepExecution stepExecution) {
        ExecutionContext jobExecutionContext = stepExecution.getJobExecution().getExecutionContext();

        jobExecutionContext.put("key", value);
        //Return null to leave the old value unchanged.
        return null;
    }
}

So, in the step, your bean is a tasklet and a listener like bellow. You should also configure the scope of you step to "step" :