TransactionProxyFactoryBean and methods within the target

[pburleson]

I have a fairly simple question about the behavior of TransactionProxyFactory Bean. Does it itercept calls from one method to another in the target class?

For example let's say I some methods that don't need a transaction (like find type methods) and only one or two that do (like save and delete).

Now, I introduce another method that doesn't need a transaction itself and in all actuallity needs no transaction, that calls the save method. Would a transaction start and commit for the call to the save method?

If not, is my only recourse to use a Facade that calls the two methods seperately?

Thanks,
Patrick

[sethladd]

Short answer is that no, if you are inside an advised and proxied object, then calls from within the object to this will not go through the proxy. This would only happen if you were using AspectJ, for instance, to advise your objects.

See a discussion of this at:
http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=9956

There is a way to interact with your own proxy, but I have not figured out how to completely do it when BeanNameAutoProxyCreator. The above post has more details.

[pburleson]

Seth,

Thanks for that thread. I had figured out things by stepping through the debugger, and sure enough, the proxy only applies at the top most method. Bummer.

We are trying to keep our services clean of dependencies on Spring itself, so I created a facade to perform the method calls and get the transactions the way I want them.

Thanks again,
Patrick