XA transactions

XA is a two-phase commit protocol that is natively supported by many databases and transaction monitors. XA transactions allow multiple resources (such as other databases or JMS systems) to coordinate in a single global transaction. This ensures data credibility as updates are committed or rolled-back across all resources.

Some drivers don't natively support XA

For the drivers that don't support XA natively, TORO Integrate emulates XA via implementing last resource commit optimization; but such a strategy has limitations – it is not possible to have more than one emulation of an XA datasource in a single XA transaction.

Not all databases support XA natively.

Managing XA transactions

Before handling XA transactions, ensure that your database connection pool has the XA Transaction option enabled.

Starting XA transactions

To mark the start of the transaction, call [SqlMethods.startTransaction(boolean, int, GloopExecutionContext)] [javadoc-io-toro-integrate-SqlMethods-startTransaction].

Parameter	Index	Default	Description
autoCommit	0	false	Whether to automtically commit after the service has finished or not, even if an exception was thrown.
timeout	1	60	Amount of time to wait before timing out the transaction (in seconds).
context	2	null

First you must create a TransactionFacade object first and then invoke its start() method. To create said object, you may use the Transactions class's create* methods.

def transaction = Transactions.create(name, propagationBehavior, timeout)
transaction.start()

Committing XA transactions

To manually commit a transaction, call SqlMethods.commitTransaction(). This will commit the current transaction.

As for committing an XA Transaction in Groovy, simply call on the TransactionFacade object's commit() method.

transaction.commit()

Rolling back XA transactions

As for rolling back, simply call SqlMethods.rollbackTransaction(). This will rollback the current transaction.

To rollback an XA transaction in Groovy, simply call the rollback() method of the TransactionFacade object.

transaction.rollback()