Transaction propagation question

[Yasson]

Hi guys. Not sure if it's right place for question, but anyway.
I can't understand how is the propagation mechanism works.
So, I have an interface

package com.spring.da.tx;

public interface FooService {
	
	Foo getFoo(String fooName);
	
	Foo getFoo(String fooName, String barName);
	
	void noPropagation();

}

and it's default implementation class:

package com.spring.da.tx;

import org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionAspectSupport;

public class DefaultFooService implements FooService {

	public Foo getFoo(String fooName) {
		return new Foo();
	}

	public Foo getFoo(String fooName, String barName) {
		throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
	}
	
	public void noPropagation() {
            getFoo("");
	}

}

Then here is my context config:

<bean id="fooService" class="com.spring.da.tx.DefaultFooService"/>
    
    <tx:advice id="txAdvice" transaction-manager="txManager">
    	<tx:attributes>
    		<tx:method name="get*" read-only="true" rollback-for="UnsupportedOperationException" propagation="MANDATORY"/>
    	</tx:attributes>
    </tx:advice>
    
    <aop:config>
     	<aop:pointcut id="fooServiceOperation" expression="execution(* com.spring.da.tx.FooService.get*(..))"/>
    	<aop:advisor advice-ref="txAdvice" pointcut-ref="fooServiceOperation"/>
    </aop:config>
    
    <bean id="txManager" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceTransactionManager">
		<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
    </bean>
    
    <bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource">
    	<property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
    	<property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/"/>
    	<property name="username" value="root"/>
    	<property name="password" value="root"/>
    </bean>

As you can see, only methods which are started with get should be in transaction. Even more, the propagation rule is MANDATORY, that means if no existing transaction is in progress, an exception will be thrown. In the DefaultFooService implementation class I have a non transactional method noPropagation() which calls the transactional (MANDATORY) method getFoo(String).

When I run this test:

FooService fooService =  (FooService)ctx.getBean("fooService");
		fooService.noPropagation();

no exception is thrown. But getFoo is marked as MANDATORY and is called from non transactional method. So why the exception is not thrown?

[karldmoore]

I think this is a duplicate post.
http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=42964