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How to make my Webservice transaction-save (including DB calls)

Hi,
I am facing following problem:
I have to implement a .Net Webservice in C#. This Webservice receives 2 Objects (O1, O2).
To save the objects to the DB, i have to call a stored procedure for O1 and O2.

But, if the procedure for O2 fails, the changed which was performed by procedure 1 (for O1) should be "rollbacked".
In other words, I have to scope these two procedures with a transaction.

I have read about the "transaction support for XML Web services" in .Net and the tag "TransactionOption = TransactionOption.RequiresNew". (see: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/XML/TransactionASPNET.aspx)
But it didn't work when I was testing it - O1 was committed to the DB although O2 failed.

Any suggestions what I am doing wrong?
Maybe this "transaction support" does not work when using stored procedures?

Im using .net 3.5 and MSSQL-Server 2008 R2.

thx!

Dennis Aries

You don't want the transaction in the webservice. In your webservice-call, you send all objects at once.
You want to add a transactional state to your database.

Use

BEGIN TRANSACTION <transactionname>
...
COMMIT TRANSACTION <transactionname>

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before/after your calls.

http://www.functionx.com/sqlserver/Lesson22.htm

wenatexx

ASKER

Hi dijaries,
i know what you mean - but this is not a solution for me.

I have several stored procedures which are called from serveral WebService-Methods.

For Example:
SavePerson() -> calls the stored procedures (sp_setperson, sp_setphonenumbers (a person can have more than 1 number, so this SP is called X-times), sp_setaddress)

SaveHousehold() -> calls the stored procedures (sp_setperson, sp_setadress (X-times).

So it's not possible for me to handle the transaction only in the database.

davesgonebananas

Yes, automatic transactions work with stored procedures. However, if your stored procedure is not raising an error the transaction will autocommit.

wenatexx

ASKER

hi,
i know that stored procedures are working with transactions. but my problem is, that all the SP should be scoped within one transaction.So if SP1 is valid and SP2 fails, SP1 should also do a rollback. For example:
I get an Household object from the webservice with 3 adresses.
I am calling the SP for the household which does not fail. then i am calling 2 times times the procedures for adresses which are valid too. the 3rd call of the adress procedure fails.
If this happens, the other 3 procedures which were called should "rolleback" too.

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