Status: New
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New issue 730 by spootsy....@gmail.com: Automatically started UnitOfWork is
never ended
http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/issues/detail?id=730
We've been using Guice in our projects for a while now, and it's been
great. There's one feature/bug that is a reliable source of bugs for us,
though.
When using the JpaPersistService, if you attempt to access an EntityManager
outside of an active UnitOfWork, Guice will automatically start one for
you. However, as Guice does not (and cannot) know when to end this
UnitOfWork, it never does.
Result? The offending thread will be stuck with the same EntityManager
throughout the life of the application. This is a bad state for the
application to run in, and ours inevitably exhaust the available memory
after a while and crash.
The real killer here is that it's not at all obvious when you've made this
mistake. The only real tip-off is that you're getting inconsistent data
from your database between different threads (due to the EMs first-level
cache) or that the applications memory consumption keeps on growing.
I think it would be much better behaviour to simply throw an exception if
an attempt is made to access an EntityManager instance outside of an active
UnitOfWork. This lets the developer know that they've made a mistake and
are attempting to access the database outside of a valid scope.
Steps to reproduce:
1. 'mvn test' on the supplied maven project (assumes postgres running on
localhost:5432 with DB/user/pass 'test')
Attachments:
guice_persist_same_em.zip 4.2 KB
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