com.google.cloud.spanner

Interface ReadOnlyTransaction

All Superinterfaces:

AutoCloseable, ReadContext

All Known Subinterfaces:

BatchReadOnlyTransaction

public interface ReadOnlyTransaction
extends ReadContext

A transaction type that provides guaranteed consistency across several reads, but does not allow writes. Snapshot read-only transactions can be configured to read at timestamps in the past. Snapshot read-only transactions do not need to be committed.

Snapshot read-only transactions provide a simpler method than locking read-write transactions for doing several consistent reads. However, this type of transaction does not support writes.

Snapshot read-only transactions do not take locks. Instead, they work by choosing a Cloud Spanner timestamp, then executing all reads at that timestamp. Since they do not acquire locks, they do not block concurrent read-write transactions.

Unlike locking read-write transactions, snapshot read-only transactions never abort. They can fail if the chosen read timestamp is garbage collected; however, the default garbage collection policy is generous enough that most applications do not need to worry about this in practice. See the class documentation of TimestampBound for more details.

To execute a snapshot transaction, specify a TimestampBound, which tells Cloud Spanner how to choose a read timestamp.

See Also:

DatabaseClient.singleUseReadOnlyTransaction(TimestampBound), DatabaseClient.readOnlyTransaction(TimestampBound)

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface com.google.cloud.spanner.ReadContext

ReadContext.QueryAnalyzeMode

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Timestamp	getReadTimestamp() Returns the timestamp chosen to perform reads and queries in this transaction.

Methods inherited from interface com.google.cloud.spanner.ReadContext

analyzeQuery, close, executeQuery, read, readRow, readRowUsingIndex, readUsingIndex

Method Detail

getReadTimestamp

Timestamp getReadTimestamp()

Returns the timestamp chosen to perform reads and queries in this transaction. The value can only be read after some read or query has either returned some data or completed without returning any data.