Transactional annotation on whole class + excluding a single method

Question

I have a class with @Transactional annotation (instead of marking it for all of its method).

Although i have a single method inside that class that shouldn't be annotated as @Transactional.

My question is is there an annotation i can put in this method to mark it as "non-transactional"? or should i start marking each single method in this class as "transactional" excluding this method (a lot of work)

thanks.

Answer 1

There are different transaction propagation strategies to use. These exist in the enum Propagation. The ones you might want to use are

/**
 * Execute non-transactionally, suspend the current transaction if one exists.
 * Analogous to EJB transaction attribute of the same name.
 * <p>Note: Actual transaction suspension will not work on out-of-the-box
 * on all transaction managers. This in particular applies to JtaTransactionManager,
 * which requires the {@code javax.transaction.TransactionManager} to be
 * made available it to it (which is server-specific in standard J2EE).
 * @see org.springframework.transaction.jta.JtaTransactionManager#setTransactionManager
 */
NOT_SUPPORTED(TransactionDefinition.PROPAGATION_NOT_SUPPORTED),

/**
 * Execute non-transactionally, throw an exception if a transaction exists.
 * Analogous to EJB transaction attribute of the same name.
 */
NEVER(TransactionDefinition.PROPAGATION_NEVER), // maybe not this one

So annotate the method inside your class with either of these.

@Transactional
public class MyTransactionalClass { 
    @Transactional(propagation = Propagation.NOT_SUPPORTED)
    public void nonTransactionalMethod() {...}
}

You can find all the propagation strategies here.