Enable custom default value for @Transactional's rollbackFor argument [SPR-3027]

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Christoph Hilmes opened SPR-3027 and commented

Just resently there was an issue about setting a default value for the timeout-argument of the @Transactional-Annotation. I´m sorry to bring up this issue again, but for me it would be nice if i could set a default value for the rollbackFor argument. At the moment i have to set this argument to my custom exceptions for every class which is a little bit cumbersome. Maybe you can do the same thing as for "timeout" once again for this argument!? Thanks.

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Affects: 2.0.1

3 votes, 3 watchers

[spring-projects-issues]

Karl Moore commented

The timeout issue is this one.
http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=32917

Issue came from here.
http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?p=95074

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Juergen Hoeller commented

The default timeout issue has been addressed at the transaction manager level. Rollback-for is specific to declarative transactions, i.e. the TransactionInterceptor, so we have to address it at that level instead...

Juergen

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Juergen Hoeller commented

As of Spring 3.0 M3, we support @Transactional as a meta-annotation on custom annotations. E.g.:

@Target({ElementType.TYPE, ElementType.METHOD})
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Transactional(rollbackFor=Exception.class, noRollbackFor={IOException.class})
public @interface MyTx {
}

And then using this custom annotation instead of the standard @Transactional annotation:

@MyTx
public void myServiceMethod {
...
}

This should be a convenient and elegant solution to any repetitive @Transactional usage!