All domain entities and scoping abstractions (RepeatContext in particular) need to be Serializable [BATCH-29] about spring-batch

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Robert Kasanicky commented

The stepExecution's reference to Step and JobInstance's reference to Job should be removed first.

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Robert Kasanicky commented

RepeatContext and ExecutionContext can be made serializable simply by adding the declaration. However RetryContext is problematic - e.g. ExceptionClassifierRetryContext has reference to RetryPolicy and ExceptionClassifier.

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Dave Syer commented

I think only the domain entities are important (despite the original, very old issue summary). We can close this off if the JobInstance, *Execution, ExecutionContext are serializable (and tested to make sure they de-serialize cleanly).

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Robert Kasanicky commented

made ExecutionContext and JobParameters serializable and added serialization tests for domain entities

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Lucas Ward commented

It seems like this fix could just as easily have been made in 1.0.1. Perhaps we could apply it to the branch as well?

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Dave Syer commented

-1 for that. There's no need to add this to 1.0.1 (it's not a critical bug in 1.0.1, more of an enabling feature for stuff that is happening in 1.1 and 2.0).

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Dave Syer commented

Assume closed as resolved and released