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Transaction marked as rollback only: How do I find the cause

I am having issues with committing a transaction within my @Transactional method:

methodA() {
    methodB()
}

@Transactional
methodB() {
    ...
    em.persist();
    ...
    em.flush();
    log("OK");
}

When I call methodB() from methodA(), the method passes successfuly and I can see “OK” in my logs. But then I get

Could not commit JPA transaction; nested exception is javax.persistence.RollbackException: Transaction marked as rollbackOnly org.springframework.transaction.TransactionSystemException: Could not commit JPA transaction; nested exception is javax.persistence.RollbackException: Transaction marked as rollbackOnly
    at org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager.doCommit(JpaTransactionManager.java:521)
    at org.springframework.transaction.support.AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.processCommit(AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.java:754)
    at org.springframework.transaction.support.AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.commit(AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.java:723)
    at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionAspectSupport.commitTransactionAfterReturning(TransactionAspectSupport.java:393)
    at org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor.invoke(TransactionInterceptor.java:120)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.Cglib2AopProxy$DynamicAdvisedInterceptor.intercept(Cglib2AopProxy.java:622)
    at methodA()...
  1. The context of methodB is completely missing in the exception – which is okay I suppose?
  2. Something within the methodB() marked the transaction as rollback only? How can I find it out? Is there for instance a way to check something like getCurrentTransaction().isRollbackOnly()? – like this I could step through the method and find the cause.

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Answer

I finally understood the problem:

methodA() {
    methodB()
}

@Transactional(noRollbackFor = Exception.class)
methodB() {
    ...
    try {
        methodC()
    } catch (...) {...}
    log("OK");
}

@Transactional
methodC() {
    throw new ...();
}

What happens is that even though the methodB has the right annotation, the methodC does not. When the exception is thrown, the second @Transactional marks the first transaction as Rollback only anyway.

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