com.atlassian.jira.transaction

Interface TransactionSupport

All Known Implementing Classes:

TransactionSupportImpl

public interface TransactionSupport

Represents the ability to peform a database transaction in JIRA.

Since:

v4.4.1

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Transaction	begin() This begins a new transaction if one is not already running for this thread.

Method Detail

begin

Transaction begin()
           throws TransactionRuntimeException

This begins a new transaction if one is not already running for this thread.

It will be a NoOp if a transaction is already running and in this case a call to Transaction.commit() will also be a NoOp. The outer caller is then reponsible for the ultimate commit or rollback.

It will also be a NoOp if a transaction support in JIRA is turned off.

Returns:

a Transaction context object that you can called commit or rollback on

Throws:

TransactionRuntimeException - if the transaction can not be established at all