PartitionHandler (Spring Batch 4.1.4.RELEASE API)

All Known Implementing Classes:
AbstractPartitionHandler, JsrPartitionHandler, MessageChannelPartitionHandler, TaskExecutorPartitionHandler
```
public interface PartitionHandler
```
Interface defining the responsibilities of controlling the execution of a partitioned StepExecution. Implementations will need to create a partition with the StepExecutionSplitter, and then use an execution fabric (grid, etc.), to execute the partitioned step. The results of the executions can be returned raw from remote workers to be aggregated by the caller.
Since:
2.0
Author:
Dave Syer

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`java.util.Collection<StepExecution>`	`handle(StepExecutionSplitter stepSplitter, StepExecution stepExecution)`	Main entry point for `PartitionHandler` interface.

- Method Detail
  - handle
```
java.util.Collection<StepExecution> handle(StepExecutionSplitter stepSplitter,
                                           StepExecution stepExecution)
                                    throws java.lang.Exception
```
    Main entry point for PartitionHandler interface. The splitter creates all the executions that need to be farmed out, along with their input parameters (in the form of their ExecutionContext). The master step execution is used to identify the partition and group together the results logically.
    Parameters:
    stepSplitter - a strategy for generating a collection of StepExecution instances
    stepExecution - the master step execution for the whole partition
    Returns:
    a collection of completed StepExecution instances
    Throws:
    java.lang.Exception - if anything goes wrong. This allows implementations to be liberal and rely on the caller to translate an exception into a step failure as necessary.