Spring

Overview

In Spring @Transactional  annotation can be used to indicate method should be run in transaction.

When @Transactional  is placed on method, this method will be run with transaction. And if it’s placed on a class, all methods of this class will run within transaction.

In MVC style application, we usually wrap business logic into a separate service class annotated with @Service  and @Transactional , so every method will run within transaction. But how to disable transaction management for a specific single method in class which is annotated with @Transactional ?

Solution

Add following code before the method which you want to disable transaction management for.

Above code will tell Spring PlatformTransactionManager that transaction is not supported for this method, and transaction manager won’t create a new transaction if no transaction is existed.

And if a current transaction existed, exception will be thrown (An IllegalTransactionStateException with message “Existing transaction found for transaction marked with propagation ‘never'”).