Spring batch scope issue while using spring boot

I'm having Standalone spring batch job. This works perfectly fine when in JUNIT

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
//@SpringApplicationConfiguration(classes = KPBootApplication.class)
@ContextConfiguration(locations={"classpath:kp-sb.xml"})
public class KPBootApplicationTests {

    private final static Logger LOG=LoggerFactory.getLogger(KPBootApplicationTests.class);

    @Autowired
    ApplicationContext context;

    @Autowired
    private JobLauncher jobLauncher;

    @Autowired
    private Job job;

    @Test
    public void testJob() {

        final JobParameters jobParameters = new JobParametersBuilder()
                .toJobParameters();

        JobExecution execution;
        try {
            execution = jobLauncher.run(job, jobParameters);
            final ExitStatus status = execution.getExitStatus();

            if (ExitStatus.COMPLETED.getExitCode().equals(status.getExitCode())) {
                LOG.info("Job completed Yeaaaaaaaa!!!!!");
            } else {
                final List<Throwable> exceptions = execution
                        .getAllFailureExceptions();
                for (final Throwable throwable : exceptions) {
                    LOG.error(throwable.getMessage(), throwable);

                }
            }
        } catch (JobExecutionAlreadyRunningException e) {
            LOG.error(e.getMessage(), e);
        } catch (JobRestartException e) {
            LOG.error(e.getMessage(), e);
        } catch (JobInstanceAlreadyCompleteException e) {
            LOG.error(e.getMessage(), e);
        } catch (JobParametersInvalidException e) {
            LOG.error(e.getMessage(), e);
        }

    }

}

And the configuration file

<!-- Below code till Job Repo is commented out during spring-boot -->
<context:property-placeholder
    properties-ref="kpProps" />
<util:properties id="kpProps">
    <prop key="app.file.path">
        D:/temp/kp1/all
    </prop>
    <prop key="app.max_thread_num">
        10
    </prop>
</util:properties>

<!-- 
<bean id="jobLauncher"
    class="org.springframework.batch.core.launch.support.SimpleJobLauncher">
    <property name="jobRepository" ref="jobRepository" />
</bean>

<bean id="jobRepository"
    class="org.springframework.batch.core.repository.support.MapJobRepositoryFactoryBean">
    <property name="transactionManager" ref="batchTransactionManager" />
</bean>
 -->

<bean id="batchTransactionManager"
    class="org.springframework.batch.support.transaction.ResourcelessTransactionManager">
    <property name="rollbackOnCommitFailure" value="false" />
</bean>

<bean id="multiResourcePartitionerReq"
    class="org.springframework.batch.core.partition.support.MultiResourcePartitioner">
    <property name="resources" value="file:${app.file.path}/kp_http_request*" />
</bean>

<bean id="multiResourcePartitionerRes"
    class="org.springframework.batch.core.partition.support.MultiResourcePartitioner">
    <property name="resources" value="file:${app.file.path}/kp_http_response*" />
</bean>

<bean id="kpPool"
    class="org.springframework.scheduling.concurrent.ThreadPoolTaskExecutor"
    destroy-method="destroy">
    <property name="maxPoolSize" value="${app.max_thread_num}" />
</bean>

<bean id="idIncrementer1"
    class="org.springframework.batch.core.launch.support.RunIdIncrementer" />

<batch:job id="kpGenJob" incrementer="idIncrementer1"
    job-repository="jobRepository">
    <batch:split id="splitStep" next="step4">
        <batch:flow>
            <batch:step id="step2">
                <batch:partition partitioner="multiResourcePartitionerReq"
                    step="step2.slave">
                    <batch:handler task-executor="kpPool" />
                </batch:partition>
            </batch:step>
        </batch:flow>
        <batch:flow>
            <batch:step id="step3">
                <batch:partition partitioner="multiResourcePartitionerRes"
                    step="step3.slave">
                    <batch:handler task-executor="kpPool" />
                </batch:partition>
            </batch:step>
        </batch:flow>
    </batch:split>
    <batch:step id="step4">
        <batch:tasklet transaction-manager="batchTransactionManager">
            <ref bean="kptasklet" />
        </batch:tasklet>
    </batch:step>
</batch:job>

<batch:step id="step2.slave">
    <batch:tasklet transaction-manager="batchTransactionManager">
        <batch:chunk reader="reqItemReader" writer="cvsFileItemWriter"
            commit-interval="10000" />
    </batch:tasklet>
</batch:step>

<batch:step id="step3.slave">
    <batch:tasklet transaction-manager="batchTransactionManager">
        <batch:chunk reader="resItemReader" writer="cvsFileItemWriter"
            commit-interval="10000" />
    </batch:tasklet>
</batch:step>

<bean id="reqItemReader" class="org.springframework.batch.item.file.FlatFileItemReader"
    scope="step">

    <property name="resource" value="#{stepExecutionContext['fileName']}" />

    <property name="lineMapper">
        <bean class="org.springframework.batch.item.file.mapping.DefaultLineMapper">
            <!-- split it -->
            <property name="lineTokenizer">
                <bean
                    class="org.springframework.batch.item.file.transform.DelimitedLineTokenizer">
                    <property name="includedFields" value="5,6,8,10,11"></property>
                    <property name="names"
                        value="f1,f2,f3,f4,f5" />
                    <property name="strict" value="false" />
                </bean>
            </property>
            <property name="fieldSetMapper">
                <bean
                    class="org.springframework.batch.item.file.mapping.BeanWrapperFieldSetMapper">
                    <property name="prototypeBeanName" value="tblHttpData" />
                </bean>
            </property>
        </bean>
    </property>
    <property name="linesToSkip" value="1"></property>
</bean>

<bean id="tblHttpData" class="com.kp.batch.batch.job.domain.TblHttpData"
    scope="prototype" />

<bean id="resItemReader" class="org.springframework.batch.item.file.FlatFileItemReader"
    scope="step">

    <property name="resource" value="#{stepExecutionContext['fileName']}" />

    <property name="lineMapper">
        <bean class="org.springframework.batch.item.file.mapping.DefaultLineMapper">
            <!-- split it -->
            <property name="lineTokenizer">
                <bean
                    class="org.springframework.batch.item.file.transform.DelimitedLineTokenizer">
                    <property name="includedFields" value="3,4"></property>
                    <property name="names" value="f1,f2" />
                    <property name="strict" value="false" />
                </bean>
            </property>
            <property name="fieldSetMapper">

                <bean
                    class="org.springframework.batch.item.file.mapping.BeanWrapperFieldSetMapper">
                    <property name="prototypeBeanName" value="tblHttpData" />
                    <property name="strict" value="true" />
                </bean>
            </property>
        </bean>
    </property>
    <property name="linesToSkip" value="1"></property>
</bean>

<bean id="kptasklet" class="com.kp.batch.batch.job.step.KPTasklet" />

<bean id="cvsFileItemWriter" class="org.springframework.batch.item.file.FlatFileItemWriter"
    scope="step">
    <!-- write to this csv file -->
    <property name="resource" value="#{stepExecutionContext['fileName']}.tmp" />
    <property name="shouldDeleteIfExists" value="true" />

    <property name="lineAggregator">
        <bean
            class="org.springframework.batch.item.file.transform.DelimitedLineAggregator">
            <property name="delimiter" value="," />

            <property name="fieldExtractor">
                <bean
                    class="org.springframework.batch.item.file.transform.BeanWrapperFieldExtractor">
                    <property name="names"
                        value="server,refferer,application,baseApplication,httpSize" />
                </bean>
            </property>
        </bean>
    </property>

</bean>

The Main Class

@SpringBootApplication
@EnableBatchProcessing
@ImportResource(value={"classpath:spring-context.xml"})
public class KPBootApplication {

    private final static Logger LOG = LoggerFactory
            .getLogger(KPBootApplication.class);

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ApplicationContext ctx = SpringApplication.run(
                KPBootApplication.class, args);
        LOG.info("Application KPBOOT Started");
        SayHello hello = (SayHello) ctx.getBean("sayHello");
        if (hello != null) {
            LOG.debug("hello is not null");
            LOG.info("Got message {}", hello.getMessage());
        } else {
            LOG.debug("hello is null");
        }
        LOG.info("Done");

    }
}

When I comment out contextconfiguration annotation and enable spring-boot by enabling @SpringApplicationConfiguration( note: I've enabled spring batch using annotation @EnableBatchProcessing) and comment out beans which are automcatically created by spring-boot for spring batch such as JobRepo I get following error saying no context holder for step scope

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to load ApplicationContext
    at org.springframework.test.context.DefaultCacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.loadContext(DefaultCacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.java:94)
    at org.springframework.test.context.DefaultTestContext.getApplicationContext(DefaultTestContext.java:72)
    at org.springframework.test.context.support.DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.injectDependencies(DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.java:117)
    at org.springframework.test.context.support.DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.prepareTestInstance(DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.java:83)
    at org.springframework.test.context.TestContextManager.prepareTestInstance(TestContextManager.java:212)
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.createTest(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:200)
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner$1.runReflectiveCall(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:252)
    at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:12)
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.methodBlock(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:254)
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:217)
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:83)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:290)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:71)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:288)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:58)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:268)
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunBeforeTestClassCallbacks.evaluate(RunBeforeTestClassCallbacks.java:61)
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunAfterTestClassCallbacks.evaluate(RunAfterTestClassCallbacks.java:68)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:363)
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.run(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:163)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.run(JUnit4TestReference.java:50)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:467)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:683)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:390)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:197)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'step2': Cannot resolve reference to bean 'step2.slave' while setting bean property 'step'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'step2.slave': Cannot resolve reference to bean 'reqItemReader' while setting bean property 'itemReader'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'reqItemReader': Scope 'step' is not active for the current thread; consider defining a scoped proxy for this bean if you intend to refer to it from a singleton; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: No context holder available for step scope
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:359)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:108)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1469)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1214)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:537)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:476)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:303)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:230)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:299)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:194)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:743)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:757)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:480)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:691)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:321)
    at org.springframework.boot.test.SpringApplicationContextLoader.loadContext(SpringApplicationContextLoader.java:98)
    at org.springframework.test.context.DefaultCacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.loadContextInternal(DefaultCacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.java:68)
    at org.springframework.test.context.DefaultCacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.loadContext(DefaultCacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.java:86)
    ... 25 common frames omitted
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'step2.slave': Cannot resolve reference to bean 'reqItemReader' while setting bean property 'itemReader'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'reqItemReader': Scope 'step' is not active for the current thread; consider defining a scoped proxy for this bean if you intend to refer to it from a singleton; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: No context holder available for step scope
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:359)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:108)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1469)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1214)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:537)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:476)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:303)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:230)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:299)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:194)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:351)
    ... 42 common frames omitted
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'reqItemReader': Scope 'step' is not active for the current thread; consider defining a scoped proxy for this bean if you intend to refer to it from a singleton; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: No context holder available for step scope
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:352)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:194)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:351)
    ... 52 common frames omitted
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: No context holder available for step scope
    at org.springframework.batch.core.scope.StepScope.getContext(StepScope.java:160)
    at org.springframework.batch.core.scope.StepScope.get(StepScope.java:99)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:337)
    ... 54 common frames omitted

Not sure why spring boot throws error
NOTE:spring-boot version 1.2.1

Solution 1:

This may be a bug (we're still investigating), however we do have a work around. The cause of this is that when using @EnableBatchProcessing the StepScope that is automatically configured assumes java config and therefore does not proxy the step scoped beans, causing them to be created too soon. The work around is to manually configure a StepScope in your XML configuration with the following configuration:

<bean id="stepScope" class="org.springframework.batch.core.scope.StepScope">
    <property name="autoProxy" value="true"/>
</bean>

Solution 2:

Michael's comment is working for me, I am also providing JavaConfig copy-paste alternative for lazy people like me :)

@Bean
public StepScope stepScope() {
    final StepScope stepScope = new StepScope();
    stepScope.setAutoProxy(true);
    return stepScope;
}