How to trigger a scheduled Spring Batch Job?

Question

I want to be able to start my job with a REST controller, then when the job is started, it should run on a scheduled basis, until i stop it again with REST.

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Answer 1

@Scheduled is defined on a method and not on a Bean. So create a new Class which will be a Bean

public class BatchConfiguration {
...
@Bean
public Job job() {
    return new Job();
}

new Class:

public class Job {

@Scheduled(cron = "0/5 * * * * ?")
public Job job() {
    return jobBuilderFactory.get("job")
            .incrementer(new RunIdIncrementer())
            .flow(step1())
            .end()
            .build();
}