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Exceptions from after_commit and after_rollback from observers are quietly swallowed

Reported by Robert Pankowecki | November 25th, 2010 @ 03:56 PM

class CarObserver < ActiveRecord::Observer

 def after_commit(car)
  puts "X"
  raise "X"
 end

 def after_rollback(car)
  puts "Y"
  raise "Y"
 end

 def after_update(car)
  puts "Z"
  raise "Z"
 end

end

ruby-1.9.2-head > Car.transaction do
ruby-1.9.2-head >      Car.new.save!
ruby-1.9.2-head ?>  end
X
 => true 
ruby-1.9.2-head > 
ruby-1.9.2-head >   Car.transaction do
ruby-1.9.2-head >       Car.new.save!
ruby-1.9.2-head ?>    raise ActiveRecord::Rollback
ruby-1.9.2-head ?>  end
Y
 => nil 
ruby-1.9.2-head > 
ruby-1.9.2-head >   Car.transaction do
ruby-1.9.2-head >      Car.first.save!
ruby-1.9.2-head ?>  end
Z
Y
RuntimeError: Z

As you can see the hooks are run but exceptions are swallowed. I think it is a bug.

Comments and changes to this ticket

Neeraj Singh November 26th, 2010 @ 01:50 AM
- Assigned user set to “Neeraj Singh”
- Importance changed from “” to “Low”
This is what I observed. There is a rescue Exception for both after_commit and after_rollback callback. After rescuing the exception, the exception is being logged and that's it. The raised exception is not being re-raised.

Also note that After the after_commit and after_rollback callbacks are executing all the code is ensuring that transaction status is cleared which would happen even if exception is raised.
```
    def committed! #:nodoc:
      _run_commit_callbacks
    ensure
      clear_transaction_record_state
    end

    # Call the after rollback callbacks. The restore_state argument indicates if the record
    # state should be rolled back to the beginning or just to the last savepoint.
    def rolledback!(force_restore_state = false) #:nodoc:
      _run_rollback_callbacks
    ensure
      restore_transaction_record_state(force_restore_state)
    end
```
There is also a test which explicitly checks that an exception raised in after_commit is not raised all the way to the top. So this is done intentionally.

I will try to find out what the intention was. At the least intention should be documented and the fact that exceptions raised in after_commit and after_rolledback will only be logged should be documented too.
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Robert Pankowecki November 26th, 2010 @ 04:10 PM
It would be good to know the intentions. So far I see no reason for that. Only makes me harder to spot a bug in my code.
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Robert Pankowecki November 28th, 2010 @ 09:42 PM
What's the progress?
Neeraj Singh December 1st, 2010 @ 05:37 AM
- Assigned user changed from “Neeraj Singh” to “Aaron Patterson”
Aaron Patterson December 9th, 2010 @ 01:00 AM
- State changed from “new” to “open”
@Neeraj, do you remember the test that made this assertion? I can do some code archeology.
Neeraj Singh December 9th, 2010 @ 02:18 AM
@Aaron : I should have provided more information in the first place.

Here is where exception is being gobbled up . https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activerecord/lib/active_...

Here is where an after_commit has raise '*' and the test is checking that nothing should blow up. https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activerecord/test/cases/...

If you wish I can work on it. However first just wanted to know if this is the path we should move along.
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Robert Pankowecki December 9th, 2010 @ 09:22 AM
Could you also spare some of you precious time to this ticket: https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/6065-activere... . There is even fix already :-)
Aaron Patterson December 9th, 2010 @ 06:47 PM
I don't like this behavior. Exceptions should be raised. Unless someone stops me, I will make that happen. :-)
Neeraj Singh December 9th, 2010 @ 07:01 PM
No one can stop you. As JV said you are the BFF of ActiveRecord :-)
rails March 10th, 2011 @ 12:00 AM
- Tag changed from “activecord, after_commit, after_rollback, exception, observers, rails3, rails3.0.3” to “activecord, after_commit, after_rollback, exception, observers, rails3, rails303”
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