Why is Spring #Transactional returning old data and how can I get it to return up-to-date data? - spring

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I'm using Spring 3.1.0.RELEASE with Hibernate 4.0.1.Final. I'm trying to use the Spring transaction manager but am having an issue where Spring is returning old data for a find method. In my Spring application, I call a save method, and then a find method. After I call save, I can see the changes in the database, but when I call the find, it is returning the old state of the object. Here is the controller methods ...
// method to save
#RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String saveUserEventFeeds(final HttpServletRequest request,
#ModelAttribute("eventFeeds") final Set<EventFeed> eventFeeds) {
final String nextPage = "user/eventfeeds";
try {
final String[] eventFeedIds = request.getParameterValues("userEventFeeds");
final Set<EventFeed> userEventFeeds = new HashSet<EventFeed>();
if (eventFeedIds != null) {
for (final String eventFeedId : eventFeedIds) {
final EventFeed eventFeed = getEventFeed(eventFeeds, Integer.parseInt(eventFeedId));
userEventFeeds.add(eventFeed);
} // for
} // if
final Registration currentUser = (Registration) securityContextFacade.getContext().getAuthentication().getPrincipal();
userService.saveUserEventFeeds(currentUser.getId(), userEventFeeds);
} catch (Exception exc) {
LOG.error(exc.getMessage(), exc);
} // try
return nextPage;
} // saveUserEventFeeds
// method to retrieve user
#ModelAttribute("user")
public UserDetails getUser() {
final Registration reg = (Registration) securityContextFacade.getContext().getAuthentication().getPrincipal();
final int id = reg.getId();
final Registration foundUser = userService.findUserById(id);
return (UserDetails) foundUser;
} // getUser
and here is the service where i declare everything transactional ...
#Transactional(rollbackFor = Exception.class)
#Component("userService")
public class UserServiceImpl implements UserService {
...
#Override
public void saveUserEventFeeds(Integer userId, Set<EventFeed> eventFeeds) {
final Registration searchUser = new Registration();
searchUser.setId(userId);
final Registration user = usersDao.getUser(searchUser);
if (user != null) {
user.setUserEventFeeds(eventFeeds);
usersDao.saveUser(user);
} else {
throw new RuntimeException("User with id " + userId + " not found.");
} // if
}
#Override
public Registration findUserById(Integer id) {
final Registration searchUser = new Registration();
if (id != null) {
searchUser.setId(id);
} // if
return usersDao.getUser(searchUser);
}
Below is the transaction manager I've declared in my application context file. If you can see how I can configure things differently so that I can get the most current data on my finds, please let me know.
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close">
<property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
<property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/myproj"/>
<property name="username" value="myproj"/>
<property name="password" value="password"/>
<property name="maxActive" value="10"/>
<property name="minIdle" value="5"/>
<!-- SELECT 1 is a simple query that returns 1 row in MySQL -->
<property name="validationQuery" value="SELECT 1"/>
</bean>
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean" id="sessionFactory">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="annotatedClasses">
<list>
<value>com.myco.myproj.domain.Registration</value>
<value>com.myco.myproj.domain.Role</value>
<value>com.myco.myproj.domain.EventFeed</value>
</list>
</property>
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<prop key="show_sql">true</prop>
<prop key="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="transactionManager"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager"
p:sessionFactory-ref="sessionFactory" />
<tx:annotation-driven />