org.springframework.transaction.support
Class TransactionTemplate

java.lang.Object
  org.springframework.transaction.support.DefaultTransactionDefinition
      org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionTemplate

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, InitializingBean, TransactionOperations, TransactionDefinition

public class TransactionTemplate
extends DefaultTransactionDefinition
implements TransactionOperations, InitializingBean

Template class that simplifies programmatic transaction demarcation and transaction exception handling.

The central method is execute(org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionCallback), supporting transactional code that implements the TransactionCallback interface. This template handles the transaction lifecycle and possible exceptions such that neither the TransactionCallback implementation nor the calling code needs to explicitly handle transactions.

Typical usage: Allows for writing low-level data access objects that use resources such as JDBC DataSources but are not transaction-aware themselves. Instead, they can implicitly participate in transactions handled by higher-level application services utilizing this class, making calls to the low-level services via an inner-class callback object.

Can be used within a service implementation via direct instantiation with a transaction manager reference, or get prepared in an application context and passed to services as bean reference. Note: The transaction manager should always be configured as bean in the application context: in the first case given to the service directly, in the second case given to the prepared template.

Supports setting the propagation behavior and the isolation level by name, for convenient configuration in context definitions.

Since:

17.03.2003

Author:

Juergen Hoeller

See Also:

execute(org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionCallback), setTransactionManager(org.springframework.transaction.PlatformTransactionManager), PlatformTransactionManager, Serialized Form

Field Summary

protected Log

logger Logger available to subclasses

Fields inherited from class org.springframework.transaction.support.DefaultTransactionDefinition

PREFIX_ISOLATION, PREFIX_PROPAGATION, PREFIX_TIMEOUT, READ_ONLY_MARKER

Fields inherited from interface org.springframework.transaction.TransactionDefinition

ISOLATION_DEFAULT, ISOLATION_READ_COMMITTED, ISOLATION_READ_UNCOMMITTED, ISOLATION_REPEATABLE_READ, ISOLATION_SERIALIZABLE, PROPAGATION_MANDATORY, PROPAGATION_NESTED, PROPAGATION_NEVER, PROPAGATION_NOT_SUPPORTED, PROPAGATION_REQUIRED, PROPAGATION_REQUIRES_NEW, PROPAGATION_SUPPORTS, TIMEOUT_DEFAULT

Constructor Summary

TransactionTemplate()
Construct a new TransactionTemplate for bean usage.

TransactionTemplate(PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager)
Construct a new TransactionTemplate using the given transaction manager.

TransactionTemplate(PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager, TransactionDefinition transactionDefinition)
Construct a new TransactionTemplate using the given transaction manager, taking its default settings from the given transaction definition.

Method Summary

void	afterPropertiesSet() Invoked by a BeanFactory after it has set all bean properties supplied (and satisfied BeanFactoryAware and ApplicationContextAware).
<T> T	execute(TransactionCallback<T> action) Execute the action specified by the given callback object within a transaction.
PlatformTransactionManager	getTransactionManager() Return the transaction management strategy to be used.
void	setTransactionManager(PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager) Set the transaction management strategy to be used.

Methods inherited from class org.springframework.transaction.support.DefaultTransactionDefinition

equals, getDefinitionDescription, getIsolationLevel, getName, getPropagationBehavior, getTimeout, hashCode, isReadOnly, setIsolationLevel, setIsolationLevelName, setName, setPropagationBehavior, setPropagationBehaviorName, setReadOnly, setTimeout, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

logger

protected final Log logger

Logger available to subclasses

Constructor Detail

TransactionTemplate

public TransactionTemplate()

Construct a new TransactionTemplate for bean usage.

Note: The PlatformTransactionManager needs to be set before any execute calls.

See Also:

setTransactionManager(org.springframework.transaction.PlatformTransactionManager)

TransactionTemplate

public TransactionTemplate(PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager)

Construct a new TransactionTemplate using the given transaction manager.

Parameters:

transactionManager - the transaction management strategy to be used

TransactionTemplate

public TransactionTemplate(PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager,
                           TransactionDefinition transactionDefinition)

Construct a new TransactionTemplate using the given transaction manager, taking its default settings from the given transaction definition.

Parameters:

transactionManager - the transaction management strategy to be used

transactionDefinition - the transaction definition to copy the default settings from. Local properties can still be set to change values.

Method Detail

setTransactionManager

public void setTransactionManager(PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager)

Set the transaction management strategy to be used.

getTransactionManager

public PlatformTransactionManager getTransactionManager()

Return the transaction management strategy to be used.

afterPropertiesSet

public void afterPropertiesSet()

Description copied from interface: InitializingBean

Invoked by a BeanFactory after it has set all bean properties supplied (and satisfied BeanFactoryAware and ApplicationContextAware).

This method allows the bean instance to perform initialization only possible when all bean properties have been set and to throw an exception in the event of misconfiguration.

Specified by:

afterPropertiesSet in interface InitializingBean

execute

public <T> T execute(TransactionCallback<T> action)
          throws TransactionException

Description copied from interface: TransactionOperations

Execute the action specified by the given callback object within a transaction.

Allows for returning a result object created within the transaction, that is, a domain object or a collection of domain objects. A RuntimeException thrown by the callback is treated as a fatal exception that enforces a rollback. Such an exception gets propagated to the caller of the template.

Specified by:

execute in interface TransactionOperations

Parameters:

action - the callback object that specifies the transactional action

Returns:

a result object returned by the callback, or null if none

Throws:

TransactionException - in case of initialization, rollback, or system errors