Persist/commit not working in test environment with Spring JPA JUnit

Question

I'm trying to setup a basic JPA insert test. But nothing is saved in the DB. DB is Postgresql. Hibernate is used as Persistence provider.

Many thanks in advance.

@Entity
public class Currency {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    protected Integer id;    

    @Column
    private String code;

    @Column
    private String name;
...
}

The CRUD class :

@Repository
@Scope(BeanDefinition.SCOPE_PROTOTYPE)
@Transactional(propagation = Propagation.REQUIRED)
public class CRUDServiceBean implements CRUDService {

      @PersistenceContext(type = PersistenceContextType.EXTENDED)
      private EntityManager entityManager;

       public EntityManager getEntityManager() {
            return entityManager;
        }

        public <T extends BaseEntity> T persistAndCommit(T t) {
            entityManager.persist(t);
            entityManager.refresh(t);
            entityManager.getTransaction().commit();
            return t;
        }

        ...
        ...
}

Base class for all tests:

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@Configurable(autowire = Autowire.BY_NAME)
@ContextConfiguration(locations = { "classpath:context-test.xml" })
public class BaseTest {
}

The test class:

public class CurrencyCreateTest extends BaseTest {

    @Autowired
    CRUDService crudService;

    @Test
    @Transactional(propagation = Propagation.REQUIRES_NEW)
    public void createCurrency() throws Exception {
        Currency currency = new Currency();
        currency.setCode("EUR");
        currency.setName("Euro");
        currency = crudService.persistAndCommit(currency);
    }
}

context-test.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:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
       xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
       xmlns:task="http://www.springframework.org/schema/task"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.0.xsd
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx 
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-4.0.xsd
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.0.xsd">         

    <context:component-scan base-package="com.chartinvest"/>

    <bean id="contextApplicationContextProvider" class="com.chartinvest.util.ApplicationContextProvider"></bean> 


    <!-- the parent application context definition for the springapp application -->

    <!-- dataSource -->
    <bean id="dataSourceFinance" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
      <property name="driverClassName"><value>org.postgresql.Driver</value></property>
      <property name="url"><value>jdbc:postgresql://localhost/db_finance_test</value></property>
      <property name="username"><value>postgres</value></property>
      <property name="password"><value>xxxxxxxx</value></property>
    </bean> 

    <bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager">
        <property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory" />       
    </bean>  

    <bean id="entityManagerFactory"
          class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
        <property name="persistenceUnitName" value="mypersistenceunit" />
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSourceFinance" />
        <property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
            <bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter">
                <property name="showSql" value="true" />
                <property name="databasePlatform" value="org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect" />
            </bean>
        </property>
        <property name="jpaPropertyMap">
            <map>
                <entry key="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect"/>
            </map>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <!-- Enable the configuration of transactional behavior based on annotations -->       
    <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager"/>

</beans>

Answer 1

If your test passed successfully and you do not get any exception so use @TransactionConfiguration(defaultRollback=false) per test class or use @Rollback(false) per test method. Transactional tests will rollback by default in spring test context.

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(locations={
  "test-context.xml"})
@TransactionConfiguration(defaultRollback=false)
@Transactional
public class SampleCrudTest {

    @Autowired
    private SampleCrud sampleCrud;

    @Before 
    public void onSetUpInTransaction() throws Exception {
        //Populate Test Data
    }


    @Test
    public void registerSample() {

        Sample sample = new Sample("foo");
        sampleCrud.save(sample);
        assertNotNull(sample.getId());
    }

}

Answer 2

I noticed the following in the log file:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot execute getTransaction() on a container-managed EntityManager
    at 
...
...

So, I removed

entityManager.getTransaction().commit();

from the method persistAndCommit(T) in CRUDServiceBean

This removed the exception, and there are no other exceptions anymore. The output of the test shows the following:

Hibernate: insert into Currency (code, name) values (?, ?)

However, no record has been written in the table CURRENCY.

It's like after the test finishes, Hibernate removes the inserted record.