org.hibernate
Interface Transaction

All Known Subinterfaces:

TransactionImplementor

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractTransactionImpl, CMTTransaction, JdbcTransaction, JtaTransaction

public interface Transaction

Defines the contract for abstracting applications from the configured underlying means of transaction management. Allows the application to define units of work, while maintaining abstraction from the underlying transaction implementation (eg. JTA, JDBC).

A transaction is associated with a Session and is usually initiated by a call to SharedSessionContract.beginTransaction(). A single session might span multiple transactions since the notion of a session (a conversation between the application and the datastore) is of coarser granularity than the notion of a transaction. However, it is intended that there be at most one uncommitted transaction associated with a particular Session at any time.

Implementers are not intended to be thread-safe.

Method Summary

void	begin() Begin this transaction.
void	commit() Commit this transaction.
LocalStatus	getLocalStatus() Get the current local status of this transaction.
int	getTimeout() Retrieve the transaction timeout set for this transaction.
boolean	isActive() Is this transaction still active? Answers on a best effort basis.
boolean	isInitiator() Is this transaction the initiator of any underlying transaction?
boolean	isParticipating() Is Hibernate participating in the underlying transaction? Generally speaking this will be the same as isActive().
void	registerSynchronization(Synchronization synchronization) Register a user synchronization callback for this transaction.
void	rollback() Rollback this transaction.
void	setTimeout(int seconds) Set the transaction timeout for any transaction started by a subsequent call to begin() on this instance.
boolean	wasCommitted() Was this transaction committed? Answers on a best effort basis.
boolean	wasRolledBack() Was this transaction rolled back or set to rollback only? Answers on a best effort basis.

Method Detail

isInitiator

boolean isInitiator()

Is this transaction the initiator of any underlying transaction?

Returns:

true if this transaction initiated the underlying transaction; false otherwise.

begin

void begin()

Begin this transaction. No-op if the transaction has already been begun. Note that this is not necessarily symmetrical since usually multiple calls to commit() or rollback() will error.

Throws:

HibernateException - Indicates a problem beginning the transaction.

commit

void commit()

Commit this transaction. This might entail a number of things depending on the context:

• If this transaction is the initiator, Session.flush() the Session with which it is associated (unless Session is in FlushMode.MANUAL).
• If this transaction is the initiator, commit the underlying transaction.
• Coordinate various callbacks

Throws:

HibernateException - Indicates a problem committing the transaction.

rollback

void rollback()

Rollback this transaction. Either rolls back the underlying transaction or ensures it cannot later commit (depending on the actual underlying strategy).

Throws:

HibernateException - Indicates a problem rolling back the transaction.

getLocalStatus

LocalStatus getLocalStatus()

Get the current local status of this transaction.

This only accounts for the local view of the transaction status. In other words it does not check the status of the actual underlying transaction.

Returns:

The current local status.

isActive

boolean isActive()

Is this transaction still active?

Answers on a best effort basis. For example, in the case of JDBC based transactions we cannot know that a transaction is active when it is initiated directly through the JDBC Connection, only when it is initiated from here.

Returns:

true if the transaction is still active; false otherwise.

Throws:

HibernateException - Indicates a problem checking the transaction status.

isParticipating

boolean isParticipating()

Is Hibernate participating in the underlying transaction?

Generally speaking this will be the same as isActive().

Returns:

true if Hibernate is known to be participating in the underlying transaction; false otherwise.

wasCommitted

boolean wasCommitted()

Was this transaction committed?

Answers on a best effort basis. For example, in the case of JDBC based transactions we cannot know that a transaction was committed when the commit was performed directly through the JDBC Connection, only when the commit was done from this.

Returns:

true if the transaction is rolled back; false otherwise.

Throws:

HibernateException - Indicates a problem checking the transaction status.

wasRolledBack

boolean wasRolledBack()

Was this transaction rolled back or set to rollback only?

Answers on a best effort basis. For example, in the case of JDBC based transactions we cannot know that a transaction was rolled back when rollback was performed directly through the JDBC Connection, only when it was rolled back from here.

Returns:

true if the transaction is rolled back; false otherwise.

Throws:

HibernateException - Indicates a problem checking the transaction status.

registerSynchronization

void registerSynchronization(Synchronization synchronization)
                             throws HibernateException

Register a user synchronization callback for this transaction.

Parameters:

synchronization - The Synchronization callback to register.

Throws:

HibernateException - Indicates a problem registering the synchronization.

setTimeout

void setTimeout(int seconds)

Set the transaction timeout for any transaction started by a subsequent call to begin() on this instance.

Parameters:

seconds - The number of seconds before a timeout.

getTimeout

int getTimeout()

Retrieve the transaction timeout set for this transaction. A negative indicates no timeout has been set.

Returns:

The timeout, in seconds.