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Spring Transaction(1)

1. What is transaction?

This is the definition from wiki :

transaction symbolizes a unit of work performed within a database management system (or similar system) against a database, and treated in a coherent and reliable way independent of other transactions. A transaction generally represents any change in a database. Transactions in a database environment have two main purposes:

  1. To provide reliable units of work that allow correct recovery from failures and keep a database consistent even in cases of system failure, when execution stops (completely or partially) and many operations upon a database remain uncompleted, with unclear status.
  2. To provide isolation between programs accessing a database concurrently. If this isolation is not provided, the programs' outcomes are possibly erroneous.

A database transaction, by definition, must be atomicconsistentisolated and durable.[1] Database practitioners often refer to these properties of database transactions using the acronym ACID.

Transactions provide an "all-or-nothing" proposition, stating that each work-unit performed in a database

must either complete in its entirety or have no effect whatsoever. Further, the system mustisolate each transaction from other transactions, results must conform to existing constraints in the database, and transactions that complete successfully must get written to durable storage.

From my perspective, it is an all-or-nothing and isolated unit of work performed within a database management system against a database.


2. Three important interfaces in transaction

  •  PlatformTransactionManager

Method Summary

Modifier and Type Method and Description
void Commit the given transaction, with regard to its status.
Return a currently active transaction or create a new one, according to the specified propagation behavior.
void Perform a rollback of the given transaction.
  • TransactionDefinition

  • Field Summary

    Fields
    Modifier and Type Field and Description
    static int Use the default isolation level of the underlying datastore.
    static int Indicates that dirty reads are prevented; non-repeatable reads and phantom reads can occur.
    static int Indicates that dirty reads, non-repeatable reads and phantom reads can occur.
    static int Indicates that dirty reads and non-repeatable reads are prevented; phantom reads can occur.
    static int Indicates that dirty reads, non-repeatable reads and phantom reads are prevented.
    static int Support a current transaction; throw an exception if no current transaction exists.
    static int Execute within a nested transaction if a current transaction exists, behave like PROPAGATION_REQUIRED else.
    static int Do not support a current transaction; throw an exception if a current transaction exists.
    static int Do not support a current transaction; rather always execute non-transactionally.
    static int Support a current transaction; create a new one if none exists.
    static int Create a new transaction, suspending the current transaction if one exists.
    static int Support a current transaction; execute non-transactionally if none exists.
    static int Use the default timeout of the underlying transaction system, or none if timeouts are not supported.
  • Method Summary

    Modifier and Type Method and Description
    int Return the isolation level.
    java.lang.String Return the name of this transaction.
    int
    int Return the transaction timeout.
    boolean Return whether to optimize as a read-only transaction.

  • TransactionStatus

Method Summary

Modifier and Type Method and Description
void flush() Flush the underlying session to the datastore, if applicable: for example, all affected Hibernate/JPA sessions.
boolean Return whether this transaction internally carries a savepoint, that is, has been created as nested transaction based on a savepoint.
boolean Return whether this transaction is completed, that is, whether it has already been committed or rolled back.
boolean Return whether the present transaction is new (else participating in an existing transaction, or potentially not running in an actual transaction in the first place).
boolean Return whether the transaction has been marked as rollback-only (either by the application or by the transaction infrastructure).
void Set the transaction rollback-only.