Spring Retry with Transactional

Question

Is Spring Retry guaranteed to work with Spring\'s @Transactional annotation?

Specifically, I\'m trying to use @Retryable for optimistic loc

Answer 1

Found the answer here: https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/5.0.6.BUILD-SNAPSHOT/spring-framework-reference/data-access.html#transaction-declarative-annotations Table 2 indicates that the advice for the Transactional annotation has an order of Ordered.LOWEST_PRECEDENCE, which means that it is safe to combine Retryable with Transactional as long as you aren't overriding the order of the advice for either of those annotations. In other words, you can safely use this form:

@Retryable(StaleStateException.class)
@Transactional
public void performDatabaseActions() {
    //Database updates here that may cause an optimistic locking failure 
    //when the transaction closes
}