How to hide Transaction Failed message?

[mcsous]

Hello Community,

I have Spring 2.5 and seam 2.0.2 working together in the same project. I'm having some troubles with transaction. When a spring method throws a rollback transaction, seam add a Transaction Failed message to JSF messages.

My components.xml looks like:

 <core:init transaction-management-enabled="true" debug="false"/>
<spring:context-loader/>
<spring:spring-transaction platform-transaction-manager="#{transactionManager}"/>

And my Spring transaction configs look like:

<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager"/>
<tx:annotation-driven proxy-target-class="false" mode="proxy"/>

Is there anything that I can do?

ps: I can't set proxy-target-class to true because some transactions doesn't rollback fine!

[nickarls]

Tried nulling the org.jboss.seam.TransactionFailed key in your properties files?

[mcsous]

This not work... another idea?

[nickarls]

Well if you have edited away the value and the text still appears then one thing that comes to mind is that you haven't edited the correct thing ;-)

[mcsous]

ok, but appears to me an empty message.

[nickarls]

If you really hate the message you can override addTransactionFailedMessage in SeamPhaseListener. Hmm, there has to be a more simple way.

[gena]

I've got the same issue. I think it's unnecessary here to raise a FacesMessage, because the web page user shouldn't be informed about the transaction failure.

If we need, we could add a more meaningful message on a transaction failure but just in appropriate form within a controller and not from framework.

In my case, i expect those exception but will not inform the user about it.

[dan.j.allen]

Actually, the correct solution for this problem would be to have a FacesTransactionEvents which observes the transaction failed event. That way, if you don't want the event, it's just a matter of overriding the FacesTransactionEvents component either to disable it or do your own thing. You can see this handoff used with security-related events and messages.

Can you file a JIRA?

[dan.j.allen]

JBSEAM-3116

Anyone want to create a patch?

[przemjaskier]

Resolution of JBSEAM-2989 will fix a whole class of Seam's over verbose messages problems. This one as well.

Please fix/vote for JBSEAM-2989 instead.

[arnieoag]

I too am getting this message in my queue and don't even know where its coming from!

Isn't there a way to prevent it in the first place - like turning off this transaction service if I'm not using it?

What kind of transaction is this about anyway?

[ikhnaton]

If anyone's still looking for it, here's a hack that works to hide the message.  Just call as your last call before returning control to Seam.

try
{
   if (Transaction.instance().isRolledBackOrMarkedRollback())
   {
      if (Transaction.instance() instanceof UTTransaction)
      {
         UTTransaction trans = (UTTransaction) Transaction.instance();
         trans.rollback();
      }
   }
}
catch (SystemException e1)
{
   logger.error(e);
}

[hhcofcmds]

Seam 2.1.1.GA still adds the message from the SeamPhaseListener, which you cannot avoid. 2.1.2.CR1 introduced the FacesTransactionEvents class to add the message, so finally we are at the same point, however, that class allows you to avoid the adding of the message. You can call this at some point of your initialization:
               

((FacesTransactionEvents)Component.
    getInstance("org.jboss.seam.transaction.facesTransactionEvents")).
    setTransactionFailedMessageEnabled(false);

However, this should be configurable in SEAM, so vote for My Link

[dan.j.allen]

There is a much easier way to disable the message than what you suggest, and the approach is configurable. Just add the following to a seam.properties file:

org.jboss.seam.transaction.facesTransactionEvents.transactionFailedMessageEnabled=false

You can also do this in a component descriptor (components.xml):

<component name="org.jboss.seam.transaction.facesTransactionEvents">
    <property name="transactionFailedMessageEnabled">false</property>
</component>

I haven't created a namespaced element for this yet. I haven't decided actually. In that case, it could be as simple as:

<tx:faces-transaction-events transaction-failed-message-enabled="false"/>

You can use that today, but it won't validate in your IDE.

[hhcofcmds]

Thanks, this works well. (I didn't know about this way to configure SEAM component properties, probably I should have read the manual more carefully).