Can't move to Neo4j 2.2.0 and Spring Data Neo4j 3.3.0.RELEASE

Question

I use Spring 4.1.6.RELEASE and Spring Boot 1.2.3.RELEASE. Right now, I can't smoothly move from Neo4j 2.1.7 and SDN 3.2.2.RELEASE to Neo4j 2.2.0 and SDN 3.3.0.RELEASE

First of all, Neo4jHelper class is absent... so what should be used instead ?

Also, my tests crashes with a following exceptions:

org.springframework.dao.InvalidDataAccessApiUsageException: nested exception is org.neo4j.graphdb.NotInTransactionException
    at org.springframework.data.neo4j.support.Neo4jExceptionTranslator.translateExceptionIfPossible(Neo4jExceptionTranslator.java:51)
    at org.springframework.dao.support.ChainedPersistenceExceptionTranslator.translateExceptionIfPossible(ChainedPersistenceExceptionTranslator.java:59)
    at org.springframework.dao.support.DataAccessUtils.translateIfNecessary(DataAccessUtils.java:213)
    at org.springframework.dao.support.PersistenceExceptionTranslationInterceptor.invoke(PersistenceExceptionTranslationInterceptor.java:147)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:179)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:207)

but on the previous versions everything work fine(My DAO and Services are annotated with @Transactional).

How to configure appropriate TX manager for Neo4j in my Spring Boot application ?

Right now NullTransactionManager are used and I think this is a reason of the issue:

2015-04-03 11:40:36 [main] INFO  o.s.c.a.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext - Refreshing org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext@12db5286: startup date [Fri Apr 03 11:40:36 EEST 2015]; root of context hierarchy
2015-04-03 11:40:37 [main] INFO  o.s.b.f.a.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor - JSR-330 'javax.inject.Inject' annotation found and supported for autowiring
2015-04-03 11:40:38 [main] INFO  o.s.t.jta.JtaTransactionManager - Using JTA UserTransaction: org.springframework.transaction.jta.UserTransactionAdapter@5909b7c2
2015-04-03 11:40:38 [main] INFO  o.s.t.jta.JtaTransactionManager - Using JTA TransactionManager: org.springframework.data.neo4j.config.NullTransactionManager@16bc4d92

what I'm doing wrong ?

Michael Hunger Michael Hunger · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-03T10:41:34

This is work in progress, I have it in a branch but it's not done yet as Neo4j 2.2 changed many internal APIs.

Stay tuned over the next week or so.

Can't move to Neo4j 2.2.0 and Spring Data Neo4j 3.3.0.RELEASE

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