How to set ExitStatus of aborted job to "reason for abort" message?

I need to abort a running job and set its ExitStatus to "reason for abort".

It's quite easy to abort a running job:

try {
    if (jobOperator.stop(jobExecutionId)) {
        jobOperator.abandon(jobExecutionId);
        log.info("The job with JobId :" + jobExecutionId + " was canceled.");
    }
}

And yes, I know, the only way to set the ExitStatus is to use AfterJob in JobExecutionListener (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30106218/setting-exit-message-in-batch-job-execution)

But how can I transfer "reason for abort" message from the code that abort the job to JobExecutionListener's AfterJob?

> how can I transfer "reason for abort" message from the code that abort the job to JobExecutionListener's AfterJob?

There is no way to do that. The only information that you can pass from the "outside" (through the job operator) to the "inside" (the job execution and its listeners) is the stop signal.

Everything else can be done on the job execution itself after stopping or aborting it, something like:

try {
    if (jobOperator.stop(jobExecutionId)) {
        jobOperator.abandon(jobExecutionId);
        JobExecution jobExecution = jobExplorer.getJobExecution(jobExecutionId);
        jobExecution.setExitStatus(new ExitStatus("ABORTED", "reason for abort"));
        jobRepository.update(jobExecution);
        log.info("The job with JobId :" + jobExecutionId + " was canceled.");
    }
}