@TransactionalEventListener, @Transactional and @Retryable flow

Question

When I publish CustomEvent in the end of @Transactional and @Retryable(value = StaleStateException.class) method foo(), how it is processed?

If I get StaleStateException during commit after method execution, then @TransactionalEventListener(phase = TransactionPhase.AFTER_COMMIT) won't called and by @Retryable Spring will call foo() second time. And what is lifecycle of first CustomEvent in this case? Will it be cleaned up? Or after second success call of foo(),@TransactionalEventListener() will be called twice?

Answer 1

If someone will meet the same worry, answer is that events listened by TransactionalEventListener are alive only transaction-time. RetryTemplate creates new transaction for every call of @Retryable method, so only events from successful attempt will arrive to @TransactionalEventListener.