store filenames in Spring Batch for send email - spring-batch

Question

I’m writing an application in Spring Batch to do this:
Read the content of a folder, file by file.
Rename the files and move them to several folders.
Send two emails: one with successed name files processed and one with name files that throwed errors.
I’ve already get 1. and 2. but I need to make the 3 point. ¿How can I store the file names that have send to the writer method in an elegant way with Spring Batch?

Answer 1

You can use a Execution Context to store the values of file names which gets processed and also which fails with errors.
We shall have a List/ similar datastructure which has the file names after the business logic. Below is a small snippet for reference which implements StepExecutionListener,
public class FileProcessor implements ItemWriter<TestData>, StepExecutionListener {
private List<String> success = new ArrayList<>();
private List<String> failed = new ArrayList<>();
#Override
public void beforeStep(StepExecution stepExecution) {
}
#Override
public void write(List<? extends BatchTenantBackupData> items) throws Exception {
// Business logic which adds the success and failure file names to the list
after processing
}
#Override
public ExitStatus afterStep(StepExecution stepExecution) {
stepExecution.getJobExecution().getExecutionContext()
.put("fileProcessedSuccessfully", success);
stepExecution.getJobExecution().getExecutionContext()
.put("fileProcessedFailure", failed);
return ExitStatus.COMPLETED;
}
}
Now we have stored the file names in the execution context which we will be able to use it in send email step.
public class sendReport implements Tasklet, StepExecutionListener {
private List<String> success = new ArrayList<>();
private List<String> failed = new ArrayList<>();
#Override
public void beforeStep(StepExecution stepExecution) {
try {
// Fetch the list of file names which we have stored in the context from previous step
success = (List<String>) stepExecution.getJobExecution().getExecutionContext()
.get("fileProcessedSuccessfully");
failed = (List<BatchJobReportContent>) stepExecution.getJobExecution()
.getExecutionContext().get("fileProcessedFailure");
} catch (Exception e) {
}
}
#Override
public RepeatStatus execute(StepContribution contribution, ChunkContext chunkContext) throws Exception {
// Business logic to send email with the file names
}
#Override
public ExitStatus afterStep(StepExecution stepExecution) {
logger.debug("Email Trigger step completed successfully!");
return ExitStatus.COMPLETED;
}
}