How to manually start a transaction on a shared EntityManager in Spring?

Question

I have a LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean as EntityManager instance.

To quickly drop a full tables\' content, I want to run the follo

Answer 1

You should use TransactionTemplate object to manage transaction imperatively:

transactionTemplate.execute(new TransactionCallbackWithoutResult() {
        @Override
        protected void doInTransactionWithoutResult(TransactionStatus status) {
            em.createNativeQuery("TRUNCATE TABLE MyTable).executeUpdate();
        }
    });

To create TransactionTemplate just use injected PlatformTransactionManager:

transactionTemplate = new TransactionTemplate(platformTransactionManager);

And if you want to use new transaction just invoke

transactionTemplate.setPropagationBehavior(TransactionDefinition.PROPAGATION_REQUIRES_NEW);