Rollback on every checked exception, whenever I say @Transactional

Question

Since the programmer is forced to catch all checked exception, I to throw checked exception in case of any problem. I would like to rollback on any of those expections. Writing rollbackFor=Exception.classon every @Transactional annotation is very error-prone, so I would like to tell spring, that: "whenever I write @Transactional, I mean @Transactional(rollbackFor=Exception.class)".

I know, that I could create a custom annotation, but that seems unnatural.

So is there a way to tell spring how it should handle checked excpetions globally?

Answer 1

Custom Shortcut Annotations

I know, that I could create a custom annotation, but that seems unnatural.

No, this is exactly the use case for a Custom Annotation. Here's a quote from Custom Shortcut Annotations in the Spring Reference:

If you find you are repeatedly using the same attributes with @Transactional on many different methods, then Spring's meta-annotation support allows you to define custom shortcut annotations for your specific use cases.

Sample Code

And here's a sample annotation for your use case:

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

Now annotate your services and / or methods with @MyAnnotation (you'll think of a better name). This is well-tested functionality that works by default. Why re-invent the wheel?

Answer 2

Approach with custom annotation looks good and straightforward, but if you actually don't want to use it, you can create a custom TransactionAttributeSource to modify interpretation of @Transactional:

public class RollbackForAllAnnotationTransactionAttributeSource      extends AnnotationTransactionAttributeSource {     @Override     protected TransactionAttribute determineTransactionAttribute(             AnnotatedElement ae) {         TransactionAttribute target = super.determineTransactionAttribute(ae);         if (target == null) return null;         else return new DelegatingTransactionAttribute(target) {             @Override             public boolean rollbackOn(Throwable ex) {                 return true;             }         };     } } 

And instead of <tx:annotation-driven/> you configure it manually as follows (see source of AnnotationDrivenBeanDefinitionParser):

<bean id = "txAttributeSource"     class = "RollbackForAllAnnotationTransactionAttributeSource" />  <bean id = "txInterceptor"     class = "org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor">     <property name = "transactionManagerBeanName" value = "transactionManager" />     <property name = "transactionAttributeSource" ref = "txAttributeSource" /> </bean>  <bean     class = "org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.BeanFactoryTransactionAttributeSourceAdvisor">     <property name="transactionAttributeSource" ref = "txAttributeSource" />     <property name = "adviceBeanName" value = "txInterceptor" /> </bean> 

Also you need <aop:config/> or <aop:aspectj-autoproxy />.

However note that such overrides may be confusing for other developers who expect a normal behaviour of @Transactional.