[detail-app]

Removed three unused symbols from OMJob.java (20 lines, 0 additions):

• the status field on OMJob
• the nested OMJobStatus class (phase, mainPodName, exitHandlerPodName,
  startTime, completionTime, message, mainPodExitCode)
• the createDefault() static factory method

Describe your changes

I removed the unused OMJob.status field, the nested OMJob.OMJobStatus
class, and the OMJob.createDefault() helper because they are dead code with
zero callers anywhere in the codebase.

Why they are dead

• status is never set (no .status(...) builder call, no setStatus(...))
  and never read (no getStatus() on an OMJob) in any production or test
  file. It is deliberately omitted from toMap() (the only serialization path
  used by K8sPipelineClient), so it is never sent to the Kubernetes API.
• OMJob.OMJobStatus is never instantiated or referenced as a type anywhere
  outside its own declaration. The live CR status subsystem lives in a
  separate, unrelated class org.openmetadata.operator.model.OMJobStatus in
  the openmetadata-k8s-operator module; this service-side nested class was a
  vestigial parallel model that was never wired up.
• createDefault() has no callers. It returns a half-initialized OMJob (no
  metadata/spec) that would NPE on its own toMap(), so it misled rather
  than helped. Production builders in K8sPipelineClient construct OMJob
  directly via the Lombok builder.

All remaining symbols (OMJobMetadata + 4 fields, OMJobSpec + 3 fields,
OMJobPodSpec + 12 fields, toMap, buildSpecMap) are confirmed living via
K8sPipelineClient and K8sJobUtils.buildPodSpecMap. No imports went dead
(the removed code only used java.lang types and the OMJob builder), so there
are no cascading deletions.

Type of change

• Improvement

High-level design

N/A — small change, single file, pure deletion of unreferenced code.

Tests

Ran the k8s unit tests in openmetadata-service:
mvn test -pl openmetadata-service -Dtest='OMJobSerializationTest, K8sJobUtilsTest,EnvVarEndToEndTest,CronOMJobSerializationTest, K8sPipelineClientTest,K8sPipelineClientBotTokenBugTest'
=> Tests run: 102, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0. BUILD SUCCESS.
mvn compile -pl openmetadata-service and mvn spotless:check -pl openmetadata-service both pass.

History

• Last materially changed January 2026 (Finish K8sPipelineClient Implementation #25172 @pmbrull)

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