Question

Since the programmer is forced to catch all checked exception, I to throw checked exception in case of any problem. I would like to rollback on any of those expections. Writing rollbackFor=Exception.classon every @Transactional annotation is very error-prone, so I would like to tell spring, that: “whenever I write @Transactional, I mean @Transactional(rollbackFor=Exception.class)“.

I know, that I could create a custom annotation, but that seems unnatural.

So is there a way to tell spring how it should handle checked excpetions globally?

Answer 1

Custom Shortcut Annotations

I know, that I could create a custom
annotation, but that seems unnatural.

No, this is exactly the use case for a Custom Annotation. Here’s a quote from Custom Shortcut Annotations in the Spring Reference:

If you find you are repeatedly using
the same attributes with
@Transactional on many different
methods, then Spring’s meta-annotation
support allows you to define custom
shortcut annotations for your specific
use cases.

Sample Code

And here’s a sample annotation for your use case:

@Target({ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.TYPE})
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Transactional(rollbackFor=Exception.class)
public @interface MyAnnotation {
}

Now annotate your services and / or methods with @MyAnnotation (you’ll think of a better name). This is well-tested functionality that works by default. Why re-invent the wheel?