Kettle (Pentaho PDI): Couldn't find starting point in this job

Question

I'm manually creating a Job using Kettle from Java, but I get the error message Couldn't find starting point in this job.

KettleEnvironment.init();
JobMeta jobMeta = new JobMeta();
JobEntrySpecial start = new JobEntrySpecial("START", true, false);
start.setStart(true);
JobEntryCopy startEntry = new JobEntryCopy(start);
jobMeta.addJobEntry(startEntry);                    

JobEntryTrans jet1 = new JobEntryTrans("first");
Trans trans1 = jet1.getTrans();
jet1.setFileName("file.ktr");
JobEntryCopy jc1 = new JobEntryCopy(jet1);
jobMeta.addJobEntry(jc1);

jobMeta.addJobHop(new JobHopMeta(startEntry, jc1));
Job job = new Job(null, jobMeta);
job.setInteractive(true);
job.start();

Answer 1

I've discovered that I was missing

job.setStartJobEntryCopy(startEntry);