Spring - No EntityManager with actual transaction available for current thread - cannot reliably process 'persist' call

Question

I get this error when trying to invoke \"persist\" method to save entity model to database in my Spring MVC web application. Can\'t really find any post or page in internet

Answer 1

I had the same error when accessing an already transactional-annotated method from a non-transactional method within the same component:

Before:
    @Component
    public class MarketObserver {
        @PersistenceContext(unitName = "maindb")
        private EntityManager em;

        @Transactional(value = "txMain", propagation = Propagation.REQUIRES_NEW)
        public void executeQuery() {
          em.persist(....);
        }


        @Async
        public void startObserving() {
          executeQuery(); //<-- Wrong
        }
    }

    //In another bean:
     marketObserver.startObserving();

I fixed the error by calling the executeQuery() on the self-referenced component:

Fixed version:
    @Component
    public class MarketObserver {
        @PersistenceContext(unitName = "maindb")
        private EntityManager em;

        @Autowired
        private GenericApplicationContext context;

        @Transactional(value = "txMain", propagation = Propagation.REQUIRES_NEW)
        public void executeQuery() {
          em.persist(....);
        }


        @Async
        public void startObserving() {
          context.getBean(MarketObserver.class).executeQuery(); //<-- Works
        }
    }