Optimistic Lock Exception handler

Question

Hi,
In my session bean, i am trying to handle the optimistic error but always get the standard error page.
My sample code is:
Public MyObject updateMyObject (MyObject myObject) {
try {
em.merge(myObject);
catch (OptimisticLockException e) {
return myObject;
kindly advise how can i handle the exception programmatically en refresh the entity.
Regards

Answer 1

Hi,
are you using JPA or TopLink ? Check if there is another exception thrown that produces the error. You can try and catch (Exception ex), which will catch them all. if this works the obviously you don't catch the right exception
I found a post saying that: "If you trying commit directly after persist w/o doing an explicit
flush then OptimisticLocking Exception maybe nested inside
RollBackException. What is the top most error on stack? You can catch
javax.persistence.PersistenceException and try to do this kind of
error translation
public static void getThrowable(javax.persistence.PersistenceException
perex, int code) {
boolean updateError = false ;
boolean deleteError = false ;
KentException kentex = null ;
Throwable th = null ;
if( perex instanceof org.apache.openjpa.persistence.RollbackException) {
th = perex.getCause();
if(th instanceof OptimisticLockException) {
updateError = true ;
if(perex instanceof OptimisticLockException ){
updateError = true ;
th = perex ;
if(perex instanceof org.apache.openjpa.persistence.EntityNotFoundException) {
deleteError = true ;
th = perex ;
http://n2.nabble.com/OptimisticLockException-confusion.-td210621.html
Frank