public abstract class

AbstractPlatformTransactionManager

extends Object
implements Serializable PlatformTransactionManager
java.lang.Object
   ↳ org.springframework.transaction.support.AbstractPlatformTransactionManager
Known Direct Subclasses
Known Indirect Subclasses

Class Overview

Abstract base class that implements Spring's standard transaction workflow, serving as basis for concrete platform transaction managers like JtaTransactionManager.

This base class provides the following workflow handling:

  • determines if there is an existing transaction;
  • applies the appropriate propagation behavior;
  • suspends and resumes transactions if necessary;
  • checks the rollback-only flag on commit;
  • applies the appropriate modification on rollback (actual rollback or setting rollback-only);
  • triggers registered synchronization callbacks (if transaction synchronization is active).

Subclasses have to implement specific template methods for specific states of a transaction, e.g.: begin, suspend, resume, commit, rollback. The most important of them are abstract and must be provided by a concrete implementation; for the rest, defaults are provided, so overriding is optional.

Transaction synchronization is a generic mechanism for registering callbacks that get invoked at transaction completion time. This is mainly used internally by the data access support classes for JDBC, Hibernate, JPA, etc when running within a JTA transaction: They register resources that are opened within the transaction for closing at transaction completion time, allowing e.g. for reuse of the same Hibernate Session within the transaction. The same mechanism can also be leveraged for custom synchronization needs in an application.

The state of this class is serializable, to allow for serializing the transaction strategy along with proxies that carry a transaction interceptor. It is up to subclasses if they wish to make their state to be serializable too. They should implement the java.io.Serializable marker interface in that case, and potentially a private readObject() method (according to Java serialization rules) if they need to restore any transient state.

Summary

Nested Classes
class AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.SuspendedResourcesHolder Holder for suspended resources. 
Constants
int SYNCHRONIZATION_ALWAYS Always activate transaction synchronization, even for "empty" transactions that result from PROPAGATION_SUPPORTS with no existing backend transaction.
int SYNCHRONIZATION_NEVER Never active transaction synchronization, not even for actual transactions.
int SYNCHRONIZATION_ON_ACTUAL_TRANSACTION Activate transaction synchronization only for actual transactions, that is, not for empty ones that result from PROPAGATION_SUPPORTS with no existing backend transaction.
Fields
protected Log logger
Public Constructors
AbstractPlatformTransactionManager()
Public Methods
final void commit(TransactionStatus status)
This implementation of commit handles participating in existing transactions and programmatic rollback requests.
final int getDefaultTimeout()
Return the default timeout that this transaction manager should apply if there is no timeout specified at the transaction level, in seconds.
final TransactionStatus getTransaction(TransactionDefinition definition)
This implementation handles propagation behavior.
final int getTransactionSynchronization()
Return if this transaction manager should activate the thread-bound transaction synchronization support.
final boolean isFailEarlyOnGlobalRollbackOnly()
Return whether to fail early in case of the transaction being globally marked as rollback-only.
final boolean isGlobalRollbackOnParticipationFailure()
Return whether to globally mark an existing transaction as rollback-only after a participating transaction failed.
final boolean isNestedTransactionAllowed()
Return whether nested transactions are allowed.
final boolean isRollbackOnCommitFailure()
Return whether doRollback should be performed on failure of the doCommit call.
final boolean isValidateExistingTransaction()
Return whether existing transactions should be validated before participating in them.
final void rollback(TransactionStatus status)
This implementation of rollback handles participating in existing transactions.
final void setDefaultTimeout(int defaultTimeout)
Specify the default timeout that this transaction manager should apply if there is no timeout specified at the transaction level, in seconds.
final void setFailEarlyOnGlobalRollbackOnly(boolean failEarlyOnGlobalRollbackOnly)
Set whether to fail early in case of the transaction being globally marked as rollback-only.
final void setGlobalRollbackOnParticipationFailure(boolean globalRollbackOnParticipationFailure)
Set whether to globally mark an existing transaction as rollback-only after a participating transaction failed.
final void setNestedTransactionAllowed(boolean nestedTransactionAllowed)
Set whether nested transactions are allowed.
final void setRollbackOnCommitFailure(boolean rollbackOnCommitFailure)
Set whether doRollback should be performed on failure of the doCommit call.
final void setTransactionSynchronization(int transactionSynchronization)
Set when this transaction manager should activate the thread-bound transaction synchronization support.
final void setTransactionSynchronizationName(String constantName)
Set the transaction synchronization by the name of the corresponding constant in this class, e.g.
final void setValidateExistingTransaction(boolean validateExistingTransaction)
Set whether existing transactions should be validated before participating in them.
Protected Methods
int determineTimeout(TransactionDefinition definition)
Determine the actual timeout to use for the given definition.
abstract void doBegin(Object transaction, TransactionDefinition definition)
Begin a new transaction with semantics according to the given transaction definition.
void doCleanupAfterCompletion(Object transaction)
Cleanup resources after transaction completion.
abstract void doCommit(DefaultTransactionStatus status)
Perform an actual commit of the given transaction.
abstract Object doGetTransaction()
Return a transaction object for the current transaction state.
void doResume(Object transaction, Object suspendedResources)
Resume the resources of the current transaction.
abstract void doRollback(DefaultTransactionStatus status)
Perform an actual rollback of the given transaction.
void doSetRollbackOnly(DefaultTransactionStatus status)
Set the given transaction rollback-only.
Object doSuspend(Object transaction)
Suspend the resources of the current transaction.
final void invokeAfterCompletion(List<TransactionSynchronization> synchronizations, int completionStatus)
Actually invoke the afterCompletion methods of the given Spring TransactionSynchronization objects.
boolean isExistingTransaction(Object transaction)
Check if the given transaction object indicates an existing transaction (that is, a transaction which has already started).
DefaultTransactionStatus newTransactionStatus(TransactionDefinition definition, Object transaction, boolean newTransaction, boolean newSynchronization, boolean debug, Object suspendedResources)
Create a rae TransactionStatus instance for the given arguments.
void prepareForCommit(DefaultTransactionStatus status)
Make preparations for commit, to be performed before the beforeCommit synchronization callbacks occur.
void prepareSynchronization(DefaultTransactionStatus status, TransactionDefinition definition)
Initialize transaction synchronization as appropriate.
final DefaultTransactionStatus prepareTransactionStatus(TransactionDefinition definition, Object transaction, boolean newTransaction, boolean newSynchronization, boolean debug, Object suspendedResources)
Create a new TransactionStatus for the given arguments, also initializing transaction synchronization as appropriate.
void registerAfterCompletionWithExistingTransaction(Object transaction, List<TransactionSynchronization> synchronizations)
Register the given list of transaction synchronizations with the existing transaction.
final void resume(Object transaction, AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.SuspendedResourcesHolder resourcesHolder)
Resume the given transaction.
boolean shouldCommitOnGlobalRollbackOnly()
Return whether to call doCommit on a transaction that has been marked as rollback-only in a global fashion.
final AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.SuspendedResourcesHolder suspend(Object transaction)
Suspend the given transaction.
final void triggerBeforeCommit(DefaultTransactionStatus status)
Trigger beforeCommit callbacks.
final void triggerBeforeCompletion(DefaultTransactionStatus status)
Trigger beforeCompletion callbacks.
boolean useSavepointForNestedTransaction()
Return whether to use a savepoint for a nested transaction.
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Inherited Methods
From class java.lang.Object
From interface org.springframework.transaction.PlatformTransactionManager

Constants

public static final int SYNCHRONIZATION_ALWAYS

Always activate transaction synchronization, even for "empty" transactions that result from PROPAGATION_SUPPORTS with no existing backend transaction.

Constant Value: 0 (0x00000000)

public static final int SYNCHRONIZATION_NEVER

Never active transaction synchronization, not even for actual transactions.

Constant Value: 2 (0x00000002)

public static final int SYNCHRONIZATION_ON_ACTUAL_TRANSACTION

Activate transaction synchronization only for actual transactions, that is, not for empty ones that result from PROPAGATION_SUPPORTS with no existing backend transaction.

Constant Value: 1 (0x00000001)

Fields

protected Log logger

Public Constructors

public AbstractPlatformTransactionManager ()

Public Methods

public final void commit (TransactionStatus status)

This implementation of commit handles participating in existing transactions and programmatic rollback requests. Delegates to isRollbackOnly, doCommit and rollback.

Parameters
status object returned by the getTransaction method

public final int getDefaultTimeout ()

Return the default timeout that this transaction manager should apply if there is no timeout specified at the transaction level, in seconds.

Returns TransactionDefinition.TIMEOUT_DEFAULT to indicate the underlying transaction infrastructure's default timeout.

public final TransactionStatus getTransaction (TransactionDefinition definition)

This implementation handles propagation behavior. Delegates to doGetTransaction, isExistingTransaction and doBegin.

Parameters
definition TransactionDefinition instance (can be null for defaults), describing propagation behavior, isolation level, timeout etc.
Returns
  • transaction status object representing the new or current transaction

public final int getTransactionSynchronization ()

Return if this transaction manager should activate the thread-bound transaction synchronization support.

public final boolean isFailEarlyOnGlobalRollbackOnly ()

Return whether to fail early in case of the transaction being globally marked as rollback-only.

public final boolean isGlobalRollbackOnParticipationFailure ()

Return whether to globally mark an existing transaction as rollback-only after a participating transaction failed.

public final boolean isNestedTransactionAllowed ()

Return whether nested transactions are allowed.

public final boolean isRollbackOnCommitFailure ()

Return whether doRollback should be performed on failure of the doCommit call.

public final boolean isValidateExistingTransaction ()

Return whether existing transactions should be validated before participating in them.

public final void rollback (TransactionStatus status)

This implementation of rollback handles participating in existing transactions. Delegates to doRollback and doSetRollbackOnly.

Parameters
status object returned by the getTransaction method

public final void setDefaultTimeout (int defaultTimeout)

Specify the default timeout that this transaction manager should apply if there is no timeout specified at the transaction level, in seconds.

Default is the underlying transaction infrastructure's default timeout, e.g. typically 30 seconds in case of a JTA provider, indicated by the TransactionDefinition.TIMEOUT_DEFAULT value.

See Also

public final void setFailEarlyOnGlobalRollbackOnly (boolean failEarlyOnGlobalRollbackOnly)

Set whether to fail early in case of the transaction being globally marked as rollback-only.

Default is "false", only causing an UnexpectedRollbackException at the outermost transaction boundary. Switch this flag on to cause an UnexpectedRollbackException as early as the global rollback-only marker has been first detected, even from within an inner transaction boundary.

Note that, as of Spring 2.0, the fail-early behavior for global rollback-only markers has been unified: All transaction managers will by default only cause UnexpectedRollbackException at the outermost transaction boundary. This allows, for example, to continue unit tests even after an operation failed and the transaction will never be completed. All transaction managers will only fail earlier if this flag has explicitly been set to "true".

public final void setGlobalRollbackOnParticipationFailure (boolean globalRollbackOnParticipationFailure)

Set whether to globally mark an existing transaction as rollback-only after a participating transaction failed.

Default is "true": If a participating transaction (e.g. with PROPAGATION_REQUIRES or PROPAGATION_SUPPORTS encountering an existing transaction) fails, the transaction will be globally marked as rollback-only. The only possible outcome of such a transaction is a rollback: The transaction originator cannot make the transaction commit anymore.

Switch this to "false" to let the transaction originator make the rollback decision. If a participating transaction fails with an exception, the caller can still decide to continue with a different path within the transaction. However, note that this will only work as long as all participating resources are capable of continuing towards a transaction commit even after a data access failure: This is generally not the case for a Hibernate Session, for example; neither is it for a sequence of JDBC insert/update/delete operations.

Note:This flag only applies to an explicit rollback attempt for a subtransaction, typically caused by an exception thrown by a data access operation (where TransactionInterceptor will trigger a PlatformTransactionManager.rollback() call according to a rollback rule). If the flag is off, the caller can handle the exception and decide on a rollback, independent of the rollback rules of the subtransaction. This flag does, however, not apply to explicit setRollbackOnly calls on a TransactionStatus, which will always cause an eventual global rollback (as it might not throw an exception after the rollback-only call).

The recommended solution for handling failure of a subtransaction is a "nested transaction", where the global transaction can be rolled back to a savepoint taken at the beginning of the subtransaction. PROPAGATION_NESTED provides exactly those semantics; however, it will only work when nested transaction support is available. This is the case with DataSourceTransactionManager, but not with JtaTransactionManager.

public final void setNestedTransactionAllowed (boolean nestedTransactionAllowed)

Set whether nested transactions are allowed. Default is "false".

Typically initialized with an appropriate default by the concrete transaction manager subclass.

public final void setRollbackOnCommitFailure (boolean rollbackOnCommitFailure)

Set whether doRollback should be performed on failure of the doCommit call. Typically not necessary and thus to be avoided, as it can potentially override the commit exception with a subsequent rollback exception.

Default is "false".

public final void setTransactionSynchronization (int transactionSynchronization)

Set when this transaction manager should activate the thread-bound transaction synchronization support. Default is "always".

Note that transaction synchronization isn't supported for multiple concurrent transactions by different transaction managers. Only one transaction manager is allowed to activate it at any time.

public final void setTransactionSynchronizationName (String constantName)

Set the transaction synchronization by the name of the corresponding constant in this class, e.g. "SYNCHRONIZATION_ALWAYS".

Parameters
constantName name of the constant

public final void setValidateExistingTransaction (boolean validateExistingTransaction)

Set whether existing transactions should be validated before participating in them.

When participating in an existing transaction (e.g. with PROPAGATION_REQUIRES or PROPAGATION_SUPPORTS encountering an existing transaction), this outer transaction's characteristics will apply even to the inner transaction scope. Validation will detect incompatible isolation level and read-only settings on the inner transaction definition and reject participation accordingly through throwing a corresponding exception.

Default is "false", leniently ignoring inner transaction settings, simply overriding them with the outer transaction's characteristics. Switch this flag to "true" in order to enforce strict validation.

Protected Methods

protected int determineTimeout (TransactionDefinition definition)

Determine the actual timeout to use for the given definition. Will fall back to this manager's default timeout if the transaction definition doesn't specify a non-default value.

Parameters
definition the transaction definition
Returns
  • the actual timeout to use

protected abstract void doBegin (Object transaction, TransactionDefinition definition)

Begin a new transaction with semantics according to the given transaction definition. Does not have to care about applying the propagation behavior, as this has already been handled by this abstract manager.

This method gets called when the transaction manager has decided to actually start a new transaction. Either there wasn't any transaction before, or the previous transaction has been suspended.

A special scenario is a nested transaction without savepoint: If useSavepointForNestedTransaction() returns "false", this method will be called to start a nested transaction when necessary. In such a context, there will be an active transaction: The implementation of this method has to detect this and start an appropriate nested transaction.

Parameters
transaction transaction object returned by doGetTransaction
definition TransactionDefinition instance, describing propagation behavior, isolation level, read-only flag, timeout, and transaction name
Throws
TransactionException in case of creation or system errors

protected void doCleanupAfterCompletion (Object transaction)

Cleanup resources after transaction completion.

Called after doCommit and doRollback execution, on any outcome. The default implementation does nothing.

Should not throw any exceptions but just issue warnings on errors.

Parameters
transaction transaction object returned by doGetTransaction

protected abstract void doCommit (DefaultTransactionStatus status)

Perform an actual commit of the given transaction.

An implementation does not need to check the "new transaction" flag or the rollback-only flag; this will already have been handled before. Usually, a straight commit will be performed on the transaction object contained in the passed-in status.

Parameters
status the status representation of the transaction
Throws
TransactionException in case of commit or system errors
See Also

protected abstract Object doGetTransaction ()

Return a transaction object for the current transaction state.

The returned object will usually be specific to the concrete transaction manager implementation, carrying corresponding transaction state in a modifiable fashion. This object will be passed into the other template methods (e.g. doBegin and doCommit), either directly or as part of a DefaultTransactionStatus instance.

The returned object should contain information about any existing transaction, that is, a transaction that has already started before the current getTransaction call on the transaction manager. Consequently, a doGetTransaction implementation will usually look for an existing transaction and store corresponding state in the returned transaction object.

Returns
  • the current transaction object
Throws
CannotCreateTransactionException if transaction support is not available
TransactionException in case of lookup or system errors

protected void doResume (Object transaction, Object suspendedResources)

Resume the resources of the current transaction. Transaction synchronization will be resumed afterwards.

The default implementation throws a TransactionSuspensionNotSupportedException, assuming that transaction suspension is generally not supported.

Parameters
transaction transaction object returned by doGetTransaction
suspendedResources the object that holds suspended resources, as returned by doSuspend
Throws
TransactionSuspensionNotSupportedException if resuming is not supported by the transaction manager implementation
TransactionException in case of system errors

protected abstract void doRollback (DefaultTransactionStatus status)

Perform an actual rollback of the given transaction.

An implementation does not need to check the "new transaction" flag; this will already have been handled before. Usually, a straight rollback will be performed on the transaction object contained in the passed-in status.

Parameters
status the status representation of the transaction
Throws
TransactionException in case of system errors
See Also

protected void doSetRollbackOnly (DefaultTransactionStatus status)

Set the given transaction rollback-only. Only called on rollback if the current transaction participates in an existing one.

The default implementation throws an IllegalTransactionStateException, assuming that participating in existing transactions is generally not supported. Subclasses are of course encouraged to provide such support.

Parameters
status the status representation of the transaction
Throws
TransactionException in case of system errors

protected Object doSuspend (Object transaction)

Suspend the resources of the current transaction. Transaction synchronization will already have been suspended.

The default implementation throws a TransactionSuspensionNotSupportedException, assuming that transaction suspension is generally not supported.

Parameters
transaction transaction object returned by doGetTransaction
Returns
  • an object that holds suspended resources (will be kept unexamined for passing it into doResume)
Throws
TransactionSuspensionNotSupportedException if suspending is not supported by the transaction manager implementation
TransactionException in case of system errors

protected final void invokeAfterCompletion (List<TransactionSynchronization> synchronizations, int completionStatus)

Actually invoke the afterCompletion methods of the given Spring TransactionSynchronization objects.

To be called by this abstract manager itself, or by special implementations of the registerAfterCompletionWithExistingTransaction callback.

Parameters
synchronizations List of TransactionSynchronization objects
completionStatus the completion status according to the constants in the TransactionSynchronization interface

protected boolean isExistingTransaction (Object transaction)

Check if the given transaction object indicates an existing transaction (that is, a transaction which has already started).

The result will be evaluated according to the specified propagation behavior for the new transaction. An existing transaction might get suspended (in case of PROPAGATION_REQUIRES_NEW), or the new transaction might participate in the existing one (in case of PROPAGATION_REQUIRED).

The default implementation returns false, assuming that participating in existing transactions is generally not supported. Subclasses are of course encouraged to provide such support.

Parameters
transaction transaction object returned by doGetTransaction
Returns
  • if there is an existing transaction
Throws
TransactionException in case of system errors

protected DefaultTransactionStatus newTransactionStatus (TransactionDefinition definition, Object transaction, boolean newTransaction, boolean newSynchronization, boolean debug, Object suspendedResources)

Create a rae TransactionStatus instance for the given arguments.

protected void prepareForCommit (DefaultTransactionStatus status)

Make preparations for commit, to be performed before the beforeCommit synchronization callbacks occur.

Note that exceptions will get propagated to the commit caller and cause a rollback of the transaction.

Parameters
status the status representation of the transaction
Throws
RuntimeException in case of errors; will be propagated to the caller (note: do not throw TransactionException subclasses here!)

protected void prepareSynchronization (DefaultTransactionStatus status, TransactionDefinition definition)

Initialize transaction synchronization as appropriate.

protected final DefaultTransactionStatus prepareTransactionStatus (TransactionDefinition definition, Object transaction, boolean newTransaction, boolean newSynchronization, boolean debug, Object suspendedResources)

Create a new TransactionStatus for the given arguments, also initializing transaction synchronization as appropriate.

protected void registerAfterCompletionWithExistingTransaction (Object transaction, List<TransactionSynchronization> synchronizations)

Register the given list of transaction synchronizations with the existing transaction.

Invoked when the control of the Spring transaction manager and thus all Spring transaction synchronizations end, without the transaction being completed yet. This is for example the case when participating in an existing JTA or EJB CMT transaction.

The default implementation simply invokes the afterCompletion methods immediately, passing in "STATUS_UNKNOWN". This is the best we can do if there's no chance to determine the actual outcome of the outer transaction.

Parameters
transaction transaction object returned by doGetTransaction
synchronizations List of TransactionSynchronization objects
Throws
TransactionException in case of system errors

protected final void resume (Object transaction, AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.SuspendedResourcesHolder resourcesHolder)

Resume the given transaction. Delegates to the doResume template method first, then resuming transaction synchronization.

Parameters
transaction the current transaction object
resourcesHolder the object that holds suspended resources, as returned by suspend (or null to just resume synchronizations, if any)

protected boolean shouldCommitOnGlobalRollbackOnly ()

Return whether to call doCommit on a transaction that has been marked as rollback-only in a global fashion.

Does not apply if an application locally sets the transaction to rollback-only via the TransactionStatus, but only to the transaction itself being marked as rollback-only by the transaction coordinator.

Default is "false": Local transaction strategies usually don't hold the rollback-only marker in the transaction itself, therefore they can't handle rollback-only transactions as part of transaction commit. Hence, AbstractPlatformTransactionManager will trigger a rollback in that case, throwing an UnexpectedRollbackException afterwards.

Override this to return "true" if the concrete transaction manager expects a doCommit call even for a rollback-only transaction, allowing for special handling there. This will, for example, be the case for JTA, where UserTransaction.commit will check the read-only flag itself and throw a corresponding RollbackException, which might include the specific reason (such as a transaction timeout).

If this method returns "true" but the doCommit implementation does not throw an exception, this transaction manager will throw an UnexpectedRollbackException itself. This should not be the typical case; it is mainly checked to cover misbehaving JTA providers that silently roll back even when the rollback has not been requested by the calling code.

protected final AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.SuspendedResourcesHolder suspend (Object transaction)

Suspend the given transaction. Suspends transaction synchronization first, then delegates to the doSuspend template method.

Parameters
transaction the current transaction object (or null to just suspend active synchronizations, if any)
Returns
  • an object that holds suspended resources (or null if neither transaction nor synchronization active)

protected final void triggerBeforeCommit (DefaultTransactionStatus status)

Trigger beforeCommit callbacks.

Parameters
status object representing the transaction

protected final void triggerBeforeCompletion (DefaultTransactionStatus status)

Trigger beforeCompletion callbacks.

Parameters
status object representing the transaction

protected boolean useSavepointForNestedTransaction ()

Return whether to use a savepoint for a nested transaction.

Default is true, which causes delegation to DefaultTransactionStatus for creating and holding a savepoint. If the transaction object does not implement the SavepointManager interface, a NestedTransactionNotSupportedException will be thrown. Else, the SavepointManager will be asked to create a new savepoint to demarcate the start of the nested transaction.

Subclasses can override this to return false, causing a further call to doBegin - within the context of an already existing transaction. The doBegin implementation needs to handle this accordingly in such a scenario. This is appropriate for JTA, for example.