Spring Boot Retry Not Working As Expected when using with Transactional

Question

Service - 1

 @Transactional
 public void method1(){
    service2.method2();
 }

Service - 2

@Transactional
@Retry(Exception.class,3)
public void method2(){
    some logic ,may produce an exception
}

Expected: The retry happens three times

Actual: The retry is not happening

Answer 1

Most of the time if there are problems with annotations in Spring, it's because AOP in Spring is based on proxies around the Class. https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/reference/html/core.html#aop-understanding-aop-proxies explains it. So the mechanism for recognizing the calls and exception does not see it when it comes from within the same class.

This should solve the issue:

@Service
public class MyService{
    @Autowired
    private MyService myService;
    
    public void method1(){
        ..
        myService.method2();
        ..
    }
    public void method2(){
        ..
    }
}