org.springframework.transaction.annotation
Annotation Type Transactional

@Target(value={METHOD,TYPE})
@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
@Inherited
@Documented
public @interface Transactional

JDK 1.5+ annotation for describing transaction attributes on a method or class.

This annotation type is generally directly comparable to Spring's RuleBasedTransactionAttribute class, and in fact AnnotationTransactionAttributeSource will directly convert the data to the latter class, so that Spring's transaction support code does not have to know about Annotations. If no rules are relevant to the exception, it will be treated like DefaultTransactionAttribute (rolling back on runtime exceptions).

Since:

1.2

Author:

Colin Sampaleanu, Juergen Hoeller

See Also:

DefaultTransactionAttribute, RuleBasedTransactionAttribute

Optional Element Summary

Isolation	isolation The transaction isolation level
Class[]	noRollbackFor 0 or more exception Classes, which must be a subclass of Throwable, indicating which exception types should not cause a transaction rollback.
String[]	noRollbackForClassName 0 or more exception names (for exceptions which must be a subclass of Throwable) which indicate exception types which should not cause a transaction rollback.
Propagation	propagation The transaction propagation type
boolean	readOnly True if the transaction is read-only
Class[]	rollbackFor 0 or more exception Classes, which must be a subclass of Throwable, indicating which exception types should cause a transaction rollback.
String[]	rollbackForClassName 0 or more exception names (for exceptions which must be a subclass of Throwable) which indicate exception types which should cause a transaction rollback.

propagation

public abstract Propagation propagation

The transaction propagation type

Default:

REQUIRED

isolation

public abstract Isolation isolation

The transaction isolation level

Default:

DEFAULT

readOnly

public abstract boolean readOnly

True if the transaction is read-only

Default:

false

rollbackFor

public abstract Class[] rollbackFor

0 or more exception Classes, which must be a subclass of Throwable, indicating which exception types should cause a transaction rollback. This is the preferred way to construct a rollback rule, matching the exception class and subclasses.

Similar to RollbackRuleAttribute.RollbackRuleAttribute(Class clazz)

Default:

{}

rollbackForClassName

public abstract String[] rollbackForClassName

0 or more exception names (for exceptions which must be a subclass of Throwable) which indicate exception types which should cause a transaction rollback.

This can be a substring, with no wildcard support at present. A value of "ServletException" would match ServletException and subclasses, for example.

NB: Consider carefully how specific the pattern is, and whether to include package information (which isn't mandatory). For example, "Exception" will match nearly anything, and will probably hide other rules. "java.lang.Exception" would be correct if "Exception" was meant to define a rule for all checked exceptions. With more unusual Exception names such as "BaseBusinessException" there's no need to use a FQN.

Similar to RollbackRuleAttribute.RollbackRuleAttribute(String exceptionName)

Default:

{}

noRollbackFor

public abstract Class[] noRollbackFor

0 or more exception Classes, which must be a subclass of Throwable, indicating which exception types should not cause a transaction rollback. This is the preferred way to construct a rollback rule, matching the exception class and subclasses.

Similar to NoRollbackRuleAttribute.NoRollbackRuleAttribute(Class clazz)

Default:

{}

noRollbackForClassName

public abstract String[] noRollbackForClassName

0 or more exception names (for exceptions which must be a subclass of Throwable) which indicate exception types which should not cause a transaction rollback.

See description of rollbackForClassName() for more info on how the specified names are treated.

Similar to NoRollbackRuleAttribute.NoRollbackRuleAttribute(String exceptionName)

Default:

{}