Deprecate redundant methods in JobExplorer/JobInstanceDao APIs

Resolves #4821

spring-batch-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/batch/core/explore/JobExplorer.java

@@ -76,7 +76,10 @@ public interface JobExplorer {
 	 * @param start The start index of the instances to return.
 	 * @param count The maximum number of instances to return.
 	 * @return a list of {@link JobInstance} for the requested job name.
+	 * @deprecated Since v6.0 and scheduled for removal in v6.2. Use
+	 * {@link #getJobInstances(String, int, int)}
 	 */
+	@Deprecated(forRemoval = true)
 	List<JobInstance> findJobInstancesByJobName(String jobName, int start, int count);
 
 	/**

spring-batch-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/batch/core/explore/support/SimpleJobExplorer.java

@@ -230,9 +230,14 @@ public class SimpleJobExplorer implements JobExplorer {
 		}
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * @deprecated since v6.0 and scheduled for removal in v6.2. Use
+	 * {@link #getJobInstances(String, int, int)} instead.
+	 */
+	@Deprecated(forRemoval = true)
 	@Override
 	public List<JobInstance> findJobInstancesByJobName(String jobName, int start, int count) {
-		return jobInstanceDao.findJobInstancesByName(jobName, start, count);
+		return getJobInstances(jobName, start, count);
 	}
 
 }

spring-batch-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/batch/core/repository/dao/JdbcJobInstanceDao.java

@@ -332,33 +332,14 @@ public class JdbcJobInstanceDao extends AbstractJdbcBatchMetadataDao implements
 
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * @deprecated since v6.0 and scheduled for removal in v6.2. Use
+	 * {@link #getJobInstances(String, int, int)} instead.
+	 */
+	@Deprecated(forRemoval = true)
 	@Override
-	@SuppressWarnings({ "rawtypes", "unchecked" })
 	public List<JobInstance> findJobInstancesByName(String jobName, final int start, final int count) {
-		ResultSetExtractor extractor = new ResultSetExtractor() {
+		return getJobInstances(jobName, start, count);
-			private final List<JobInstance> list = new ArrayList<>();
-
-			@Override
-			public Object extractData(ResultSet rs) throws SQLException, DataAccessException {
-				int rowNum = 0;
-				while (rowNum < start && rs.next()) {
-					rowNum++;
-				}
-				while (rowNum < start + count && rs.next()) {
-					RowMapper<JobInstance> rowMapper = new JobInstanceRowMapper();
-					list.add(rowMapper.mapRow(rs, rowNum));
-					rowNum++;
-				}
-				return list;
-			}
-		};
-
-		if (jobName.contains(STAR_WILDCARD)) {
-			jobName = jobName.replaceAll("\\" + STAR_WILDCARD, SQL_WILDCARD);
-		}
-
-		return (List<JobInstance>) getJdbcTemplate().query(getQuery(FIND_LAST_JOBS_LIKE_NAME), extractor, jobName);
-
 	}
 
 }

spring-batch-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/batch/core/repository/dao/JobInstanceDao.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2006-2023 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2006-2025 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -117,7 +117,10 @@ public interface JobInstanceDao {
 	 * should begin.
 	 * @param count int containing the number of job instances to return.
 	 * @return a list of {@link JobInstance} for the job name requested.
+	 * @deprecated Since v6.0 and scheduled for removal in v6.2. Use
+	 * {@link #getJobInstances(String, int, int)}
 	 */
+	@Deprecated(forRemoval = true)
 	List<JobInstance> findJobInstancesByName(String jobName, int start, int count);
 
 	/**

spring-batch-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/batch/core/repository/dao/MongoJobInstanceDao.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2024 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2024-2025 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -143,20 +143,14 @@ public class MongoJobInstanceDao implements JobInstanceDao {
 			.toList();
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * @deprecated since v6.0 and scheduled for removal in v6.2. Use
+	 * {@link #getJobInstances(String, int, int)} instead.
+	 */
+	@Deprecated(forRemoval = true)
 	@Override
 	public List<JobInstance> findJobInstancesByName(String jobName, int start, int count) {
-		Query query = query(where("jobName").alike(Example.of(jobName)));
+		return getJobInstances(jobName, start, count);
-		Sort.Order sortOrder = Sort.Order.desc("jobInstanceId");
-		List<org.springframework.batch.core.repository.persistence.JobInstance> jobInstances = this.mongoOperations
-			.find(query.with(Sort.by(sortOrder)),
-					org.springframework.batch.core.repository.persistence.JobInstance.class, COLLECTION_NAME)
-			.stream()
-			.toList();
-		return jobInstances.subList(start, jobInstances.size())
-			.stream()
-			.map(this.jobInstanceConverter::toJobInstance)
-			.limit(count)
-			.toList();
 	}
 
 	@Override