[[transaction-declarative-first-example]]
= Example of Declarative Transaction Implementation

Consider the following interface and its attendant implementation. This example uses
`Foo` and `Bar` classes as placeholders so that you can concentrate on the transaction
usage without focusing on a particular domain model. For the purposes of this example,
the fact that the `DefaultFooService` class throws `UnsupportedOperationException`
instances in the body of each implemented method is good. That behavior lets you see
transactions being created and then rolled back in response to the
`UnsupportedOperationException` instance. The following listing shows the `FooService`
interface:

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[source,java,indent=0,subs="verbatim,quotes",chomp="-packages"]
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	// the service interface that we want to make transactional

	package x.y.service;

	public interface FooService {

		Foo getFoo(String fooName);

		Foo getFoo(String fooName, String barName);

		void insertFoo(Foo foo);

		void updateFoo(Foo foo);

	}
----

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	// the service interface that we want to make transactional

	package x.y.service

	interface FooService {

		fun getFoo(fooName: String): Foo

		fun getFoo(fooName: String, barName: String): Foo

		fun insertFoo(foo: Foo)

		fun updateFoo(foo: Foo)
	}
----
======

The following example shows an implementation of the preceding interface:

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	package x.y.service;

	public class DefaultFooService implements FooService {

		@Override
		public Foo getFoo(String fooName) {
			// ...
		}

		@Override
		public Foo getFoo(String fooName, String barName) {
			// ...
		}

		@Override
		public void insertFoo(Foo foo) {
			// ...
		}

		@Override
		public void updateFoo(Foo foo) {
			// ...
		}
	}
----

Kotlin::
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[source,kotlin,indent=0,subs="verbatim,quotes",chomp="-packages"]
----
	package x.y.service

	class DefaultFooService : FooService {

		override fun getFoo(fooName: String): Foo {
			// ...
		}

		override fun getFoo(fooName: String, barName: String): Foo {
			// ...
		}

		override fun insertFoo(foo: Foo) {
			// ...
		}

		override fun updateFoo(foo: Foo) {
			// ...
		}
	}
----
======

Assume that the first two methods of the `FooService` interface, `getFoo(String)` and
`getFoo(String, String)`, must run in the context of a transaction with read-only
semantics and that the other methods, `insertFoo(Foo)` and `updateFoo(Foo)`, must
run in the context of a transaction with read-write semantics. The following
configuration is explained in detail in the next few paragraphs:

[source,xml,indent=0,subs="verbatim"]
----
	<!-- from the file 'context.xml' -->
	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
		xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
		xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
		xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
		xsi:schemaLocation="
			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
			https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
			http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
			https://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd
			http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
			https://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop.xsd">

		<!-- this is the service object that we want to make transactional -->
		<bean id="fooService" class="x.y.service.DefaultFooService"/>

		<!-- the transactional advice (what 'happens'; see the <aop:advisor/> bean below) -->
		<tx:advice id="txAdvice" transaction-manager="txManager">
			<!-- the transactional semantics... -->
			<tx:attributes>
				<!-- all methods starting with 'get' are read-only -->
				<tx:method name="get*" read-only="true"/>
				<!-- other methods use the default transaction settings (see below) -->
				<tx:method name="*"/>
			</tx:attributes>
		</tx:advice>

		<!-- ensure that the above transactional advice runs for any execution
			of an operation defined by the FooService interface -->
		<aop:config>
			<aop:pointcut id="fooServiceOperation" expression="execution(* x.y.service.FooService.*(..))"/>
			<aop:advisor advice-ref="txAdvice" pointcut-ref="fooServiceOperation"/>
		</aop:config>

		<!-- don't forget the DataSource -->
		<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close">
			<property name="driverClassName" value="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"/>
			<property name="url" value="jdbc:oracle:thin:@rj-t42:1521:elvis"/>
			<property name="username" value="scott"/>
			<property name="password" value="tiger"/>
		</bean>

		<!-- similarly, don't forget the TransactionManager -->
		<bean id="txManager" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceTransactionManager">
			<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
		</bean>

		<!-- other <bean/> definitions here -->

	</beans>
----

Examine the preceding configuration. It assumes that you want to make a service object,
the `fooService` bean, transactional. The transaction semantics to apply are encapsulated
in the `<tx:advice/>` definition. The `<tx:advice/>` definition reads as "all methods
starting with `get` are to run in the context of a read-only transaction, and all
other methods are to run with the default transaction semantics". The
`transaction-manager` attribute of the `<tx:advice/>` tag is set to the name of the
`TransactionManager` bean that is going to drive the transactions (in this case, the
`txManager` bean).

TIP: You can omit the `transaction-manager` attribute in the transactional advice
(`<tx:advice/>`) if the bean name of the `TransactionManager` that you want to
wire in has the name `transactionManager`. If the `TransactionManager` bean that
you want to wire in has any other name, you must use the `transaction-manager`
attribute explicitly, as in the preceding example.

The `<aop:config/>` definition ensures that the transactional advice defined by the
`txAdvice` bean runs at the appropriate points in the program. First, you define a
pointcut that matches the execution of any operation defined in the `FooService` interface
(`fooServiceOperation`). Then you associate the pointcut with the `txAdvice` by using an
advisor. The result indicates that, at the execution of a `fooServiceOperation`,
the advice defined by `txAdvice` is run.

The expression defined within the `<aop:pointcut/>` element is an AspectJ pointcut
expression. See xref:core/aop.adoc[the AOP section] for more details on pointcut
expressions in Spring.

A common requirement is to make an entire service layer transactional. The best way to
do this is to change the pointcut expression to match any operation in your
service layer. The following example shows how to do so:

[source,xml,indent=0,subs="verbatim"]
----
	<aop:config>
		<aop:pointcut id="fooServiceMethods" expression="execution(* x.y.service.*.*(..))"/>
		<aop:advisor advice-ref="txAdvice" pointcut-ref="fooServiceMethods"/>
	</aop:config>
----

NOTE: In the preceding example, it is assumed that all your service interfaces are defined
in the `x.y.service` package. See xref:core/aop.adoc[the AOP section] for more details.

Now that we have analyzed the configuration, you may be asking yourself,
"What does all this configuration actually do?"

The configuration shown earlier is used to create a transactional proxy around the object
that is created from the `fooService` bean definition. The proxy is configured with
the transactional advice so that, when an appropriate method is invoked on the proxy,
a transaction is started, suspended, marked as read-only, and so on, depending on the
transaction configuration associated with that method. Consider the following program
that test drives the configuration shown earlier:

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	public final class Boot {

		public static void main(final String[] args) throws Exception {
			ApplicationContext ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("context.xml");
			FooService fooService = ctx.getBean(FooService.class);
			fooService.insertFoo(new Foo());
		}
	}
----

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[source,kotlin,indent=0,subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	import org.springframework.beans.factory.getBean

	fun main() {
		val ctx = ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("context.xml")
		val fooService = ctx.getBean<FooService>("fooService")
		fooService.insertFoo(Foo())
	}
----
======

The output from running the preceding program should resemble the following (the Log4J
output and the stack trace from the `UnsupportedOperationException` thrown by the
`insertFoo(..)` method of the `DefaultFooService` class have been truncated for clarity):

[source,xml,indent=0,subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<!-- the Spring container is starting up... -->
	[AspectJInvocationContextExposingAdvisorAutoProxyCreator] - Creating implicit proxy for bean 'fooService' with 0 common interceptors and 1 specific interceptors

	<!-- the DefaultFooService is actually proxied -->
	[JdkDynamicAopProxy] - Creating JDK dynamic proxy for [x.y.service.DefaultFooService]

	<!-- ... the insertFoo(..) method is now being invoked on the proxy -->
	[TransactionInterceptor] - Getting transaction for x.y.service.FooService.insertFoo

	<!-- the transactional advice kicks in here... -->
	[DataSourceTransactionManager] - Creating new transaction with name [x.y.service.FooService.insertFoo]
	[DataSourceTransactionManager] - Acquired Connection [org.apache.commons.dbcp.PoolableConnection@a53de4] for JDBC transaction

	<!-- the insertFoo(..) method from DefaultFooService throws an exception... -->
	[RuleBasedTransactionAttribute] - Applying rules to determine whether transaction should rollback on java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException
	[TransactionInterceptor] - Invoking rollback for transaction on x.y.service.FooService.insertFoo due to throwable [java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException]

	<!-- and the transaction is rolled back (by default, RuntimeException instances cause rollback) -->
	[DataSourceTransactionManager] - Rolling back JDBC transaction on Connection [org.apache.commons.dbcp.PoolableConnection@a53de4]
	[DataSourceTransactionManager] - Releasing JDBC Connection after transaction
	[DataSourceUtils] - Returning JDBC Connection to DataSource

	Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException at x.y.service.DefaultFooService.insertFoo(DefaultFooService.java:14)
	<!-- AOP infrastructure stack trace elements removed for clarity -->
	at $Proxy0.insertFoo(Unknown Source)
	at Boot.main(Boot.java:11)
----

To use reactive transaction management the code has to use reactive types.

NOTE: Spring Framework uses the `ReactiveAdapterRegistry` to determine whether a method
return type is reactive.

The following listing shows a modified version of the previously used `FooService`, but
this time the code uses reactive types:

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	// the reactive service interface that we want to make transactional

	package x.y.service;

	public interface FooService {

		Flux<Foo> getFoo(String fooName);

		Publisher<Foo> getFoo(String fooName, String barName);

		Mono<Void> insertFoo(Foo foo);

		Mono<Void> updateFoo(Foo foo);

	}
----

Kotlin::
+
[source,kotlin,indent=0,subs="verbatim,quotes",chomp="-packages"]
----
	// the reactive service interface that we want to make transactional

	package x.y.service

	interface FooService {

		fun getFoo(fooName: String): Flow<Foo>

		fun getFoo(fooName: String, barName: String): Publisher<Foo>

		fun insertFoo(foo: Foo) : Mono<Void>

		fun updateFoo(foo: Foo) : Mono<Void>
	}
----
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The following example shows an implementation of the preceding interface:

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[source,java,indent=0,subs="verbatim,quotes",chomp="-packages"]
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	package x.y.service;

	public class DefaultFooService implements FooService {

		@Override
		public Flux<Foo> getFoo(String fooName) {
			// ...
		}

		@Override
		public Publisher<Foo> getFoo(String fooName, String barName) {
			// ...
		}

		@Override
		public Mono<Void> insertFoo(Foo foo) {
			// ...
		}

		@Override
		public Mono<Void> updateFoo(Foo foo) {
			// ...
		}
	}
----

Kotlin::
+
[source,kotlin,indent=0,subs="verbatim,quotes",chomp="-packages"]
----
	package x.y.service

	class DefaultFooService : FooService {

		override fun getFoo(fooName: String): Flow<Foo> {
			// ...
		}

		override fun getFoo(fooName: String, barName: String): Publisher<Foo> {
			// ...
		}

		override fun insertFoo(foo: Foo): Mono<Void> {
			// ...
		}

		override fun updateFoo(foo: Foo): Mono<Void> {
			// ...
		}
	}
----
======

Imperative and reactive transaction management share the same semantics for transaction
boundary and transaction attribute definitions. The main difference between imperative
and reactive transactions is the deferred nature of the latter. `TransactionInterceptor`
decorates the returned reactive type with a transactional operator to begin and clean up
the transaction. Therefore, calling a transactional reactive method defers the actual
transaction management to a subscription type that activates processing of the reactive
type.

Another aspect of reactive transaction management relates to data escaping which is a
natural consequence of the programming model.

Method return values of imperative transactions are returned from transactional methods
upon successful termination of a method so that partially computed results do not escape
the method closure.

Reactive transaction methods return a reactive wrapper type which represents a
computation sequence along with a promise to begin and complete the computation.

A `Publisher` can emit data while a transaction is ongoing but not necessarily completed.
Therefore, methods that depend upon successful completion of an entire transaction need
to ensure completion and buffer results in the calling code.


