@Async is killing Hibernate transaction

Question

I am using an Open-Session-In-View transaction model for my REST api like this:

@Override
    public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain)
      sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().beginTransaction();
      chain.doFilter(request, response);
      sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().getTransaction().commit();
}

This work just fine. I wanted to add @Async abilities. So I created:

@Configuration
@EnableAsync
public class AsyncConfig implements AsyncConfigurer {

    @Override
    @Bean(destroyMethod="shutdown")
    public Executor getAsyncExecutor() {
        ThreadPoolTaskExecutor executor = new ThreadPoolTaskExecutor();
        executor.setCorePoolSize(18);
        executor.setMaxPoolSize(18);
        executor.initialize();
        executor.setDaemon(true);
        executor.setWaitForTasksToCompleteOnShutdown(false);
        return executor;
    }

    @Override
    public AsyncUncaughtExceptionHandler getAsyncUncaughtExceptionHandler() {
        return new SimpleAsyncUncaughtExceptionHandler();
    }
}

and:

@Component
public class AsyncMarketCaller {

    @Inject
    MarketManagerFactory marketManagerFactory;

    @Async
    public Future<List<Product>> getProducts(){

        MarketManager productManager = marketManagerFactory.obtainMarketManager(market);
        result = productManager.getProducts();
        ....
    }
}

The productManager makes a call to another @Service

@Service
public class DefaultIdentifierManager implements IdentifierManager{
     @Inject
    UpcEanDAO upcEanDAO;

      @Override
    public String getTitleForIdentifier(String identifier){
        UpcEan upcEan = upcEanDAO.find(identifier);
    }
}

however, for upcEanDAO.find(identifier) I get an exception:

Caused by: org.hibernate.HibernateException: get is not valid without active transaction

Before I added the @Async ability to make async calls to getProducts() it worked just fine so I assume that @Async kills the transaction that I opened with Hibernate.

I tried adding based on another answer here, @Transactional to the method annotated with @Async but it doesn't help.

Any idea?

EDITED

I edited the code so

@Component
public class AsyncMarketCaller {

    @Inject
    AsyncMarketService asyncMarketService;

    @Async
    public Future<List<Product>> getProducts(){
        asyncMarketService.getProducts();
    }
}

and

@Service
public class AsyncMarketService {

    @Inject
    MarketManagerFactory marketManagerFactory;

    @Transactional
    public Future<List<Product>> getProducts()
     ....
}

}

I see in the log

50689 DEBUG [localhost-startStop-1] org.springframework.transaction.annotation.AnnotationTransactionAttributeSource - Adding transactional method 'AsyncMarketService.getProducts' with attribute: PROPAGATION_REQUIRED,ISOLATION_DEFAULT; ''

but it doesn't help. Please note that my method AsyncMarketService.getProducts doesn't call directly the DB, it calls to other methods and only one of them will make the call.

I also added above the one that actually make the call to DB:@Transactional

49992 DEBUG [localhost-startStop-1] org.springframework.transaction.annotation.AnnotationTransactionAttributeSource - Adding transactional method 'DefaultIdentifierManager.getTitleForIdentifier' with attribute: PROPAGATION_REQUIRED,ISOLATION_DEFAULT; ''

Solution

Hibernate transactions work on a ThreadLocal basis.

As you use another thread with @Async there will be no transaction active.

You can achieve this functionality by having the async method calling another bean which is annotated by @Transactional.

Here I explain this approach a little bit more: How do I properly do a background thread when using Spring Data and Hibernate?