Unable to register an annotation-based StepExecutionListener in a fault-tolerant step

[fmbenhassine]

As of v4.3.6, it is not possible to register an annotation-based StepExecutionListener in a fault-tolerant step. The following snippet does not compile:

FaultTolerantStepBuilder builder = new StepBuilder("step")
   .repository(jobRepository)
   .transactionManager(transactionManager)
   .chunk(5)
   .reader(new DummyItemReader()) 
   .writer(new DummyItemWriter())
   .faultTolerant()
   .listener(new AnnotationBasedStepExecutionListener()); // compilation error here

This is because org.springframework.batch.core.step.builder.FaultTolerantStepBuilder#listener(java.lang.Object) returns SimpleStepBuilder while it should return FaultTolerantStepBuilder. Note how all other methods that are related to listener registration in the FaultTolerantStepBuilder class return FaultTolerantStepBuilder and not SimpleStepBuilder.

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Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52167498