Question

I have the following declaration:

  <tx:advice id="txAdvice" transaction-manager="transactionManager">
    <tx:attributes>
      <tx:method name="*"/>
    </tx:attributes>
  </tx:advice>

I wrapped of the transactions all methods from the pointcut patterns.
But I want custom wrap one of the method.
Does has Spring.Net functionality of the “black list” for tx:advice?

Answer 1

I don’t think there is “black list” functionality in the <tx:advice ... /> tag. The transaction advice will always be applied to the matching methods.

I think the intention of the <tx:attributes ... /> list is to specify which transaction attributes to use (depending on the name of the method) not to exclude methods from being wrapped in a transaction.

If you’re only interested in applying custom transaction properties to a specific method, this can easily be done. For instance, if you want to set read-only=true instead of the default value false for VerySpecificMethod:

<tx:advice id="txAdvice" transaction-manager="transactionManager">
  <tx:attributes>
    <tx:method name="VerySpecificMethod" read-only="true"/>
    <tx:method name="*"/>
  </tx:attributes>
</tx:advice>

The first matching method name will specifiy the transaction attributes to use so now, VerySpecificMethod will be executed within a read-only transaction. Other methods will use the default value false.