[Spring-batch Documentation - Configuring for Stop] description is not correct

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Bug description

I am studying Spring Batch using the official documentation. While practicing, I came across a statement explaining that if a step’s ExitStatus is FAILED in a job without a Flow, the job’s Status will also be FAILED.

However, in my tests, even when I returned ExitStatus.FAILED in the afterStep method of a StepExecutionListener, the job’s status was still COMPLETE, contrary to the documentation.

Environment

• OS : window 10
• jdk : temurin-jdk-21
• spring boot:3.3.4, spring batch core:5.1.2

Steps to reproduce

import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;
import org.springframework.batch.core.Job;
import org.springframework.batch.core.Step;
import org.springframework.batch.core.job.builder.JobBuilder;
import org.springframework.batch.core.repository.JobRepository;
import org.springframework.batch.core.step.builder.StepBuilder;
import org.springframework.batch.item.support.ListItemReader;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.transaction.PlatformTransactionManager;

import java.util.List;

@Configuration
@RequiredArgsConstructor
public class MyJobConfig {
    private final JobRepository jobRepository;
    private final PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager;

    @Bean
    public Job customItemStreamConfigJob() {
        return new JobBuilder("customItemStreamConfigJob", jobRepository)
                .start(customItemStreamConfigStep())
                .build();
    }

    @Bean
    public Step customItemStreamConfigStep() {
        return new StepBuilder("customItemStreamConfigStep", jobRepository)
                .<Integer, Integer>chunk(5, transactionManager)
                .reader(new ListItemReader<>(List.of())) // give empty List to see EmptyReadFailureListener works properly
                .writer(chunk -> chunk.getItems().forEach(System.out::println))
                .listener(emptyReadFailureListener())
                .build();
    }

    @Bean
    public EmptyReadFailureListener emptyReadFailureListener() {
        return new EmptyReadFailureListener();
    }
}

The stepExecutionListener( = EmptyReadFailureListener ) code is like below.

package coding.toast.batch.job.simple;

import org.springframework.batch.core.*;

public class EmptyReadFailureListener implements StepExecutionListener {
    @Override
    public ExitStatus afterStep(StepExecution stepExecution) {
       // if there is nothing read from itemReader, Then return ExitStatus.FAILED.
        if (stepExecution.getReadCount() > 0) {
            return stepExecution.getExitStatus();
        } else {
            return ExitStatus.FAILED.addExitDescription("exit Because Of No Item Read");
        }
    }
}

Expected behavior

the job's batch status will be fail.

Test Result

But the Result was different.
the picture under this comment is the result i get after the Spring Batch Execution Ends.

batch_job_execution table:

batch_step_execution table: