transactions - Spring @Transactional rollbackFor not working

Question

I have a code like below

   public abstract class AffltTransactionService implements IAffltTransactionService {
    ....

        @Override
        @Transactional
        public void processTransactions(List<? extends AffltTransaction> transactions) {
            for (AffltTransaction transaction : transactions) {
                if (transaction != null) {
                    processTransaction(transaction);
                }
            }
        }

        private void processTransaction(AffltTransaction transaction) {
            try {
                processTransactionInternal(transaction);

            } catch (Exception exception) {
                affltTransactionError = new AffltTransactionError(null, null, "error", new Date());
                saveAffltTransactionError(affltTransactionError);
                log.error(exception.getLocalizedMessage());
            }
        }

        @Transactional(readOnly=false, rollbackFor = Exception.class, propagation = Propagation.REQUIRES_NEW)
        public void processTransactionInternal(AffltTransaction transaction) {

processTransactionInternal throws ServiceUnAvailableException which extends RuntimeException

But the transaction is not getting rolled back despite having rollbackFor = Exception.class . Can you please help.

Answer 1

@Transactional annotation won't have any effect if you are calling the method directly, since Spring creates proxies above annotated classes and the aspect-defined functionality is implemented by proxy. So, when you call the method from within your class it doesn't get through proxy, and hence no transcation is created and/or rolled back.

Take a look at the Spring reference for detailed explanation.