2 Replies Latest reply on Mar 18, 2013 6:21 PM by dimas_

    Strange behaviour of transaction when using Arquillian's Persistence Extension

    dimas_
    dimas_ Jan 10, 2013 9:37 AM

      Hello All,

       

      I wrote a little test project to learn Arquillian and its facilities. Now I am trying to understand how Arquillian's Persistence Extension is working and I faced with some strange behaviour. At least it seems to me so). Here is details:

       

      I have simple test method:

       

       

      @RunWith(Arquillian.class)
@Cleanup(phase = TestExecutionPhase.NONE)
public class ItemFacadeTest {

     @EJB
     private ItemFacadeLocal facade;

     ...

     @Test
     @Transactional
     public void testAutomaticTransactionRollbackAfterException() {
          Item item = new Item();
          item.setName("testTransactionRollback");

          facade.persistItem(item);

          throw new RuntimeException();
     }
}

       

      As you can see test method is wrapped with transaction. TransactionMode is COMMIT by default. In this method I explicitly throw an exception and I expect that transaction will be rolled back after exception. But changes still in the DB after exception have been thrown. If I set TransactionMode=ROLLBACK then all is rolled back as it should be.

       

      Is this correct behavior? Because I think that transaction should roll back after exception have been thrown.

       

      By the way, I also tested Arquillian's Transaction Extension and there transaction is rolling back after exception have occured. But I faced another issue with Transaction Extension wich I will describe in another question.

       

      My arquillian.xml file is:

       

       

      <arquillian xmlns="http://jboss.org/schema/arquillian"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://jboss.org/schema/arquillian
        http://jboss.org/schema/arquillian/arquillian_1_0.xsd">
    <container qualifier="jbossas-7-managed" default="true">
        <configuration>
            <property name="jbossHome">D:\Programs\jboss-as-7.1.1.Final</property>
            <property name="serverConfig">standalone-full.xml</property>
            <property name="allowConnectingToRunningServer">true</property> 
        </configuration>
       <protocol type="Servlet 3.0"/>
    </container>
         <extension qualifier="persistence">
              <property name="defaultDataSource">java:/mydb</property>
              <property name="userTransactionJndi">java:jboss/UserTransaction</property>
          </extension>
          <extension qualifier="persistence-dbunit">
              <property name="datatypeFactory">org.dbunit.ext.mssql.MsSqlDataTypeFactory</property>
              <property name="useIdentityInsert">true</property>
              <property name="excludePoi">true</property>
              <property name="dataSeedStrategy">REFRESH</property>
          </extension>
           <extension qualifier="transaction">
              <property name="manager">java:jboss/UserTransaction</property>
            </extension>
</arquillian>