title: ERROR: Encountered an error executing the step org.springframework.batch.item.ItemStreamException: Failed to initialize the reader
body: <p>This is my FlatFileItemReader configuration</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;beans:bean id="myFileItemReader"
      class="org.springframework.batch.item.file.FlatFileItemReader"
      p:resource="file://tmp/my-#{jobParameters[date]}/data.txt"
      p:lineMapper-ref="myLineMapper" scope="step"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am getting this error</p>
  
  <pre><code>ERROR: org.springframework.batch.core.step.AbstractStep - Encountered an error executing the step
  org.springframework.batch.item.ItemStreamException: Failed to initialize the reader
      at org.springframework.batch.item.support.AbstractItemCountingItemStreamItemReader.open(AbstractItemCountingItemStreamItemReader.java:142)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
      at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:317)
      at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:183)
      at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:150)
      at org.springframework.aop.support.DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.doProceed(DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.java:132)
      at org.springframework.aop.support.DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.invoke(DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.java:120)
      at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
      at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:204)
      at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy25.open(Unknown Source)
      at org.springframework.batch.item.support.CompositeItemStream.open(CompositeItemStream.java:96)
      at org.springframework.batch.core.step.tasklet.TaskletStep.open(TaskletStep.java:307)
      at org.springframework.batch.core.step.AbstractStep.execute(AbstractStep.java:195)
      at org.springframework.batch.core.job.SimpleStepHandler.handleStep(SimpleStepHandler.java:144)
      at org.springframework.batch.core.job.flow.JobFlowExecutor.executeStep(JobFlowExecutor.java:64)
      at org.springframework.batch.core.job.flow.support.state.StepState.handle(StepState.java:67)
      at org.springframework.batch.core.job.flow.support.SimpleFlow.resume(SimpleFlow.java:163)
      at org.springframework.batch.core.job.flow.support.SimpleFlow.start(SimpleFlow.java:142)
      at org.springframework.batch.core.job.flow.FlowJob.doExecute(FlowJob.java:134)
      at org.springframework.batch.core.job.AbstractJob.execute(AbstractJob.java:304)
      at org.springframework.batch.core.launch.support.SimpleJobLauncher$1.run(SimpleJobLauncher.java:135)
      at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
      at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
      at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)
  Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: tmp
      at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:178)
      at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:579)
      at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:528)
      at sun.net.ftp.impl.FtpClient.doConnect(FtpClient.java:958)
      at sun.net.ftp.impl.FtpClient.tryConnect(FtpClient.java:918)
      at sun.net.ftp.impl.FtpClient.connect(FtpClient.java:1013)
      at sun.net.ftp.impl.FtpClient.connect(FtpClient.java:999)
      at sun.net.www.protocol.ftp.FtpURLConnection.connect(FtpURLConnection.java:294)
      at sun.net.www.protocol.ftp.FtpURLConnection.getInputStream(FtpURLConnection.java:393)
      at org.springframework.core.io.UrlResource.getInputStream(UrlResource.java:125)
      at org.springframework.batch.item.file.DefaultBufferedReaderFactory.create(DefaultBufferedReaderFactory.java:34)
      at org.springframework.batch.item.file.FlatFileItemReader.doOpen(FlatFileItemReader.java:266)
      at org.springframework.batch.item.support.AbstractItemCountingItemStreamItemReader.open(AbstractItemCountingItemStreamItemReader.java:139)
  </code></pre>