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Setting the Transaction Isolation Level through Spring Boot properties

I have a spring boot application which I have configured most of the properties through the properties file. However, I was looking if there is a way to set the TRANSACTION_ISOLATION_LEVEL through the Spring boot properties. Could someone help me on this.
I'm initializing the data source bean in the following way:
#Bean
#ConfigurationProperties(prefix="spring.datasource")
public DataSource dataSource() {
return buildDataSource("spring.datasource");
}
private DataSource buildDataSource(String propPrefix) {
Stirng driverClassName = env.getProperty(propPrefix + ".driver-class-name");
return DataSourceBuilder.create()
.driverClassName(driverClassName)
.build();
}
Could someone please help me on how to specify the TRANSACTION_ISOLATION_LEVEL either through properties or during the data source initialization.

So, the javax.sql.DataSource does not provide a way to set default Transaction Isolation Level. Still, you can do it, but you must strict to particular implementation. Let me give you c couple of examples:
In case you use Apache BasicDataSource implementation of DataSource, then you can use this. This is for DBCP.
If you are using Apache BasicDataSource, but for DBCP2, you can do something like this.
But in most cases, if we are talking about Spring, we use Hikari Connection Pool. So, in case of HikariCP, you can use this method.
The same is applicable to Spring Boot. Let me explain - using Spring Boot properties file, you can set default transaction isolation level, but for specific DataSource, I mean this property:
spring.datasource.hikari.transaction-isolation
as you probably noticed, let you set default transaction isolation level for HikariCP (if you are using one) And this property:
spring.datasource.dbcp2.default-transaction-isolation
allow you to configure default isolation level for DBCP2.
Hope it helped, have a nice day! :)

Inject java.sql.Connection into controller for Ninja Framework

I want to use JOOQ to access my database from the Ninja Framework. How can I get a JDBC connection from a controller?
Here's resources I found that didn't quite work.
How to retrieve the datasource used by a persistence unit programmatically - Tedious set of steps to get the connection from an EntityManager.
http://blog.jooq.org/2015/05/26/type-safe-queries-for-jpas-native-query-api/ - works by building a query in JOOQ and passing to EntityManager.createNativeQuery. It's functional, but it's not as nice as just having the connection.
Could I inject the connection into a controller like so:
public Result myController(#DBConnection Connection connection) {
List<String> articles = DSL.using(connection).selectFrom(ARTICLE).fetch(ARTICLE.TITLE);
return Results.html().render("template", articles);
}
DropWizards has a plugin that looks like a winner: https://github.com/benjamin-bader/droptools/tree/master/dropwizard-jooq
public BlogPost getPost(#QueryParam("id") int postId, #Context DSLContext database) {
BlogPostRecord post = database
.selectFrom(POST)
.where(POST.ID.equal(postId))
.fetchOne();
// do stuff
}

Following up on #LukasEder's answer this is the approach:
HibernateEntityManagerFactory hibernateEntityManagerFactory = ((EntityManagerImpl) entityManager).getFactory();
SessionFactoryImpl sessionFactoryImpl = (SessionFactoryImpl) hibernateEntityManagerFactory.getSessionFactory();
C3P0ConnectionProvider c3P0ConnectionProvider = (C3P0ConnectionProvider) sessionFactoryImpl.getConnectionProvider();
Connection connection = c3P0ConnectionProvider.getConnection();
This is obviously very very strange and bad code.
A clean solution is to provide access to Connection / DataSource by Ninja directly (separating the connection pool from Hibernate or any implementation). That is not too hard and is partly done in the ebeans plugin. Let's discuss that on our mailing list if you are interested in contributing code :)

Short of any option to retrieve a JDBC Connection or DataSource from ninja framework directly, the standard approach should be to "unwrap" it from the EntityManager:
Connection connection = em.unwrap(Connection.class);
See also: How to get DataSource or Connection from JPA2 EntityManager in Java EE 6
A Hibernate-specific approach is documented here: How to retrieve the datasource used by a persistence unit programmatically

How to disable connection pooling in Hibernate

I have a web application that currently uses c3p0 and Hibernate to connect to a Firebird 1.5 database.
I am facing a problem from time to time where the database just stops responding, even trying to manually restart the service doesn't have any effect, and it doesn't generate any logs, so I have to manually reboot the machine to get it working again.
I think that maybe Firebird hangs when the pool tries to acquire a specific number of connections or something like that. So, I need to test my app without connection pooling, to check if this is or is not the problem.
I can't simply remove c3p0 configs from persistence because this way Hibernate would use its own integrated connection pool. So how to do it?

The most flexible solution is to use an explicit DataSource, instead of configuring the connection pooling through Hibernate. One option to configure a non-pooling DataSource is by using DriverManagerDataSource:
#Override
protected Properties getProperties() {
Properties properties = new Properties();
properties.put("hibernate.dialect", "org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect");
//log settings
properties.put("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto", "update");
//data source settings
properties.put("hibernate.connection.datasource", newDataSource());
return properties;
}
protected ProxyDataSource newDataSource() {
DriverManagerDataSource actualDataSource = new DriverManagerDataSource();
actualDataSource.setUrl("jdbc:hsqldb:mem:test");
actualDataSource.setUsername("sa");
actualDataSource.setPassword("");
ProxyDataSource proxyDataSource = new ProxyDataSource();
proxyDataSource.setDataSource(actualDataSource);
proxyDataSource.setListener(new SLF4JQueryLoggingListener());
return proxyDataSource;
}
This way you can choose a pooling or a non-pooling DataSource.
To get a better understanding of you connection pooling resources usage, you can configure FlexyPool to collect metrics for:
concurrent connections
concurrent connection requests
data source connection acquiring time
connection lease time
maximum pool size
total connection acquiring time
overflow pool size
retries attempts

I found documentation for hibernate 3.3 and 4.3 that says:
Just replace the hibernate.connection.pool_size property with
connection pool specific settings. This will turn off Hibernate's
internal pool.
Hibernate will use its org.hibernate.connection.C3P0ConnectionProvider
for connection pooling if you set hibernate.c3p0.* properties
So remove hibernate.connection.pool_size and any hibernate.c3p0... properties from configuration, than connection pooling is disabled.

Adding to Vlad's answer:
If somebody still faces this:
Be sure to remove "hibernate-c3p0" from your classpath, if exists, since this will automatically enable MChange c3p0 connection pool.
Another option that, you can close the connection manually when closing the entity manager:
....
SessionImpl ses = (SessionImpl) session;
close(ses.connection());
try {
session.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
logger.error(e);
}
........
Note: the above manual closing will work with the default pool of hibernate, not hibernate default one.
Good Luck

EJB3 DataSource DataSource.getConnection

In a CMT J2EE environement (Container Managed Transaction) what transaction / connection is used when I JDNI-lookup for a DataSource object and invoke DataSource.getConnection?
Is this connection part of the (potentially distributed) transaction? Does getConnection() return the same Connection every time I call it for the same DataSource object? I only know using Connections by the same EntityManager using native SQL statements.
It is something that keeps me puzzling. As I understood the SessionContext defines a transactional system that is used throught every time I use a datasource. I have the problem that inside a session bean a DataSource.getConnection() is used and this connection is then closed. If a problem is encountered SessionContext.setForRollBack(true) is issued.
Therefore how does the transactional context of a service relate to a DataSource?
If we spawn a new Connection each time a datasource is used or at least looked up, I have problems to understand things I already know. Any clarification would be wonderful. I know container managed transaction and other systems, but the actual behavior of DataSource is totally beyond me.

In Java EE a transaction is a concept that is not exclusive to databases, for example JMS connection sessions can also be part of container managed transaction. The idea is if one or more than one method is running under container managed transaction boundary, the container will commit or rollback the transaction as needed.
In data base related data source, there are multiple layers, fist is the managed pool of connection which is maintained by the container, second is the actual connection management of the database driver with the database, in Java a Connection is an abstraction for a session with a database and not a physical connection, that is managed by the driver.
With the above context, your questions could be addressed viz.:
what transaction / connection is used when I JDNI-lookup for a DataSource object and invoke DataSource.getConnection.
Under container managed transaction, though it is implementation dependent, a connection/session with the database is associated that is marked with the transaction boundary. The actual physical connection could be shared with the database by the driver but that is transparent to application as well as the container.
Is this connection part of the (potentially distributed) transaction? Does getConnection return the same Connection every time I call it for the same DataSource object?
Refer above, a Connection has no relation with the underlying socket to the database as opened by the driver. It is logically a separate session and if within transaction boundary, the same session is associated with the connection retrieved from the data source, how this is implemented is part of the container design
I have the problem that inside a session bean a DataSource.getConnection is used and this connection is then closed
In a pooled implementation for connection a Connection.close() has no impact, the connection is returned to the pool(http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-dbcp/api-1.3/org/apache/commons/dbcp/PoolableConnection.html), this behaviour is similar for all pools. So clsing a connection does not necessarily disassociate it from container transaction boundary, though a connection should not be closed within container managed transaction. Similarly, commit, setAutoCommit, rollback must not be called from within CMT as this will issue the following command equivalent to the actual database and the behaviour of the transaction after that will undefined.

Have a look at the declaration of the #Resource annotation.
It includes a shareable attribute that allows you to specify connection sharing behaviour. It defaults to true, which means that you will get connection sharing automatically if you do nothing.
This attribute is also included in the XML schema for any resource-ref defined datasources that you may lookup using JNDI.
All resources (JDBC, JMS, ResourceManager) that are included during an invocation are enrolled in the current transaction. You may sometimes need to specify the use of XA for this to work correctly.

How to read pool name from a Connection?

I'm using a Connection via severals pools :
DataSource ds = initialContext.lookup("poolname1");
Connection cn = ds.getConnection();
submethod1(cn);
submethod2(cn);
void submethod1(Connection cn)
{
// using connection
// ..
}
My question is: how to log "poolname" in submethods ? or similar informations about DataSource.

Perhaps this will help
getClientInfo()
or
getMetaData()
as mentionned in the Official Java Doc

The poolname in your example is actually a JNDI Name. This is generally a configuration which is configured in resource definition (e.q under in tomcat config).
For your problem as #sourlcheck mentioned, its not possible as connection are not aware of their datasource.
Once way to solve your problem is to give label to the datasource. Most of the Pooled datasource implementations (e.q. C3P0) offer a setter for setting up a name to the datasource. In C3P0 the datasournce class is ComboPooledDataSource and the method is getDataSourceName(). Once you get this name, it remains the same throughout its life cycle. But off course you need to introduce third party library

You can't log "poolname" in methods that receive Connection. Connections don't know if they are pooled or served directly from non-pooling DataSource.
Also you can create and access your pool in many different ways, not all of them guaranteeing existence of "poolname".