Keep transaction between JDO and low-level API

Question

I have a Spring application in GoogleApp engine which uses JDO to persists objects. So I'm using it in this way in my service layer to keep transactions (with @Transactional annotation).

@Transactional
public void save(Object object) {
    dao1.save(object); // dao1 saves using JDO
    Object object2 = generate1Object(object)
    dao2.save(object2); // dao2 saves using low level API
    Object object3 = generate2Object(object)
    dao3.save(object3); // dao3 saves using JDO
}

The problem I have is that I need to use the low level API to persist the object2 (because it's an advanced save which cannot be done with JDO). The problem I have is that I don't know how to keep they all in the same transaction. If the dao3 fails when saving the sving done in the love level is not rolledback.

So in the dao2 I persist in this way:

//save using low-level API
public void save(Object object){
    DatastoreService datastore = DatastoreServiceFactory.getDatastoreService();
    Entity entity = generateEntity(object);
    datastore.put(entity);
}

and in the dao1 and dao3 (the ones which use JDO) I have something like this:

//save using JDO
public void save(Object object) {
    PersistenceManager pm = PMF.get().getPersistenceManager();
    pm.makePersistent(object);
}

I've seen that the datastore object has a method called:

datastore.getCurrentTransaction()

but it is null for me. How can I make the low level to be aware of the transaction of JDO and keep the three daos in the same transaction.

Thanks.

Answer 1

just use jdo as normal and get hold of the bigtable connection

tx.begin();
...

// Get hold of native connection
JDOConnection jdoConn = pm.getDataStoreConnection();
... cast "jdoConn.getNativeConnection()" to the right type
... (do something with the connection)
jdoConn.close(); // Hands it back to JDO

tx.commit();

at least that is the theory, assuming GAE/J implements it