RE: Transactions

From: Dave Merrin (dmerri..pasystems.co.uk)
Date: Thu Oct 20 2005 - 05:24:11 EDT

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    I've just noticed that Cayenne claims to create a transaction per query even
    though commitChanges has only been called once. Does this mean that if
    something goes wrong half way through a number of updates then half of them
    will be applied and half won't?

    Cheers for the info so far,

    Dave

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Mike Kienenberger [mailto:mkienen..mail.com]
    > Sent: 19 October 2005 17:23
    > To: cayenne-use..bjectstyle.org
    > Subject: Re: Transactions
    >
    >
    > Hi Dave,
    >
    > In addition to each commit executing in a separate transaction, each
    > select query is going to be executed in a separate transaction. Not
    > sure how it matters in the case of select queries, but since you
    > brought it up, I thought I'd mention it.
    >
    > -Mike
    >
    >
    > On 10/19/05, Andrus Adamchik <andru..bjectstyle.org> wrote:
    > > Hi Dave,
    > >
    > > I was in the process of writing a long email about transactions [I
    > > attach it below as it may be educational to other users], but I think
    > > confusion is on another level. DataContext itself is an in-memory
    > > scratchpad not related to any J2EE or DB transactions. Cayenne
    > > default transaction scope ("transaction" in DB sense) starts and ends
    > > within "commitChanges" method. DataContext.rollback is done in-memory.
    > >
    > > In most cases this is all you need, and you shouldn't worry about
    > > transactions at all. But if you want to wrap your work with objects
    > > in the DataContext in a bigger transaction (e.g. you are within an
    > > EJB), you may do that via external transactions, as described below.
    > >
    > > Andrus
    > >
    > > --- My other email ----
    > >
    > > >> Maybe I'm missing something but I'm having trouble working out how
    > > >> to manage
    > > >> my own transactions.
    > > >
    > > > The simplest answer is this: check 'container-managed transactions'
    > > > checkbox on a DataDomain in the modeler, and use whatever
    > > > transaction mechanism you'd like (J2EE, Spring ...).
    > > >
    > > > While you can do certain things with Cayenne Transaction class
    > > > (e.g. wrap a few raw SQL queries in a single transaction), it's
    > > > main goal is integration with external transaction mechanisms.
    > >
    > > --- End my other email ----
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > > On Oct 19, 2005, at 11:27 AM, Dave Merrin wrote:
    > >
    > > > Think I'm confusing myself here. Am I right to say that Cayenne will
    > > > automatically create a transaction under the hood for me? Then if
    > > > revertChanges is called the transaction is implicitly rolled back?
    > > >
    > > > If all this is true when exactly is the transaction created? i.e. all
    > > > queries/ first update or delete?
    > > >
    > > > Cheers,
    > > >
    > > > Dave
    > > >
    > > >
    > > >> -----Original Message-----
    > > >> From: Dave Merrin [mailto:dmerri..pasystems.co.uk]
    > > >> Sent: 19 October 2005 16:10
    > > >> To: Cayenne-User
    > > >> Subject: Transactions
    > > >>
    > > >>
    > > >>
    > > >> Maybe I'm missing something but I'm having trouble working out
    > > >> how to manage
    > > >> my own transactions. I see there is a Transaction class and that the
    > > >> DataContext has a method 'performQueries' which takes a
    > > >> transaction object.
    > > >>
    > > >> I want to run a single query on the database in an existing
    > > >> transaction. How
    > > >> can I do this?
    > > >>
    > > >> Cheers,
    > > >>
    > > >> Dave
    > >
    > >
    >



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