How to recover from database errors in Grails within a transaction - exception

Question

In short, what I am trying solve is how to recover from certain database errors in a Grails application using Hibernate and continue on with the transaction skipping over the failed row updates that are part of a batch of changes.
The application uses Grails 2.3.11 but I have also tried with version 1.3.8 with similar failed results.
Basically there is a Grails service class that iterates over a list of imported records and attempts to update associated master records appropriately. In certain situations exceptions might occur during the domain.save(flush:true) call e.g. org.hibernate.exception.DataException thrown due to issues like (Data truncation: Data too long for column ...).
At this point I have tried:
Disabling transactions
Using domainObj.withTransaction() for each individual record
Trying various #Transactional annotations
Calling domain.clearErrors() and domain.discard() after catching the exception
Tried using a nested service with Transactional annotation with noRollbackFor as shown below
A number of other approaches but nothing I've tried has worked
Example code:
#Transactional
class UpdateService {
public updateBatch(Integer batchId) {
...
list.each { record ->
record.value = 123
try {
nestedService.saveDomain()
} catch (e) {
record.clearErrors()
record.discard()
}
}
batch.status = "POSTED"
batch.save()
}
}
#Transactional
class NestedService {
#Transactional(propagation = Propagation.REQUIRED, noRollbackFor = RuntimeException.class)
public void saveDomain(domainObj) throws RuntimeException {
if (domainObj.validate() && domainObj.save(flush:true) {
log.info "domain $domain was saved"
}
}
}
Once an error occurs I can't seem to clear out the hibernate session. On each subsequent record being updated I receive the error:
org.hibernate.StaleObjectStateException: Row was updated or deleted by another transaction
where it indicates the original failed domain id.
Revision:
Vahid, Thanks for the suggestions. I have tried that. I realized one issue is that I am passing objects across transactional boundaries. So I experimented with the NestedService class do something along the lines of:
#Transactional(propagation = Propagation.REQUIRE_NEW)
public void saveDomain(domainObj) {
def newObj = new Domain.get(domainObj.id)
newObj.properties = domainObj.properties
if (newObj.validate() && newObj.save(force:true) ) { ... }
I expected that to work but the original domainObj still fails even though I'm not calling the save on it. Very strange...

Answer 1

A simple approach would be to loop and then use validate(). If it does fail, then just store the id of the failed entity and proceed.
if(!domainObject.validate()){
// store Id for trying it again later ?
}else{
// Save
}