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From: "Tim McAuley" <mcauleyt@tcd.ie>
To: <cactus-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: Controlling transactions during unit tests
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:25:22 +0100
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Hi,

I am having a trouble with transactions during one of my unit tests, using
JBoss 3. Someone
might be able to help.

I have some code to update a member's interest in a topic. This will
retrieve the list of current interests, store them in a cache (separate
collection) and update the specified interest when asked to do so (both in
the cache and to the db currently).

DB Layout:     Member 1 - N MemberInterest N - 1 Interest

This call will be made through a session bean under normal operation but for
the moment I would like to test it separately (using Cactus).

Currently I get an exception, with the message:
"A CMR collection may only be used within the transaction in which it was
created"

This happens when I want to load the list of member interests into a cache.
This is done by retrieving the cmr collection and then iterating through it
to create a separate collection in cache.

How can I get this to run within the same transaction using cactus, like it
would under normal operation using a session bean (I presume)?

I have tried this code (within the unit test) but it does not seem to help:
    uTrans = (UserTransaction)new
        InitialContext().lookup("UserTransaction");
    uTrans.begin();
    // Create the action... which will create the interest cache on first
call
    interestAction = new UpdateInterestAction(memberContext, interest,
value);
    uTrans.commit();

This is the only reference I could find on the web to a similar problem...
and suggesting to make sure to run everything within a usertransaction.
http://www.jboss.org/forums/thread.jsp?forum=46&thread=20507&message=3738688
#3738688

I am using JBoss 3.0.2 (and 3.0.3), on Win 2K, accessing Postgres 7.1.3

Many thanks,

Tim


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