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

In case you are using Spring Boot and you want to use @Retryable, this is what you need to do:

1. Add the dependency to the pom:

    org.springframework.retry
    spring-retry

2. Enable retries in your Spring Boot application:

@EnableRetry // <-- Add This
@SpringBootApplication
public class SomeApplication {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(SomeApplication.class, args);
    }

}

3. Annotate your method with @Retryable:

@Retryable(value = CannotAcquireLockException.class,
        backoff = @Backoff(delay = 100, maxDelay = 300))
@Transactional(isolation = Isolation.SERIALIZABLE)
public boolean someMethod(String someArg, long otherArg) {
    ...
}

You can annotate the same method with both @Retryable and @Transactional and it will work as expected.