org.hibernate

Interface Transaction

Known Implementing Classes:
CMTTransaction, JDBCTransaction, JTATransaction

public interface Transaction

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 instantiated by a call to Session.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.

Implementors are not intended to be threadsafe.
Author:
Anton van Straaten
See Also:
Session.beginTransaction(), TransactionFactory

Method Summary

void
begin()
Begin a new transaction.
void
commit()
Flush the associated Session and end the unit of work (unless we are in FlushMode.MANUAL.
boolean
isActive()
Is this transaction still active?

Again, this only returns information in relation to the local transaction, not the actual underlying transaction.

void
registerSynchronization(Synchronization synchronization)
Register a user synchronization callback for this transaction.
void
rollback()
Force the underlying transaction to roll back.
void
setTimeout(int seconds)
Set the transaction timeout for any transaction started by a subsequent call to begin() on this instance.
boolean
wasCommitted()
Check if this transaction was successfully committed.
boolean
wasRolledBack()
Was this transaction rolled back or set to rollback only?

This only accounts for actions initiated from this local transaction.

Method Details

begin

public void begin()
            throws HibernateException
Begin a new transaction.

commit

public void commit()
            throws HibernateException
Flush the associated Session and end the unit of work (unless we are in FlushMode.MANUAL. This method will commit the underlying transaction if and only if the underlying transaction was initiated by this object.

isActive

public boolean isActive()
            throws HibernateException
Is this transaction still active?

Again, this only returns information in relation to the local transaction, not the actual underlying transaction.

Returns:
boolean Treu if this local transaction is still active.

registerSynchronization

public void registerSynchronization(Synchronization synchronization)
            throws HibernateException
Register a user synchronization callback for this transaction.
Parameters:
synchronization - The Synchronization callback to register.

rollback

public void rollback()
            throws HibernateException
Force the underlying transaction to roll back.

setTimeout

public 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.

wasCommitted

public boolean wasCommitted()
            throws HibernateException
Check if this transaction was successfully committed.

This method could return false even after successful invocation of commit(). As an example, JTA based strategies no-op on commit() calls if they did not start the transaction; in that case, they also report wasCommitted() as false.

Returns:
boolean True if the transaction was (unequivocally) committed via this local transaction; false otherwise.

wasRolledBack

public boolean wasRolledBack()
            throws HibernateException
Was this transaction rolled back or set to rollback only?

This only accounts for actions initiated from this local transaction. If, for example, the underlying transaction is forced to rollback via some other means, this method still reports false because the rollback was not initiated from here.

Returns:
boolean True if the transaction was rolled back via this local transaction; false otherwise.