In MongoDB, if you have multiple sessions try to update same document in the same time, you will get TransientTransactionError, that means you found transaction write conflict error.
Solutions
1. Show the error on your website and let the user try again
2. Add your code to retry update your transaction automatically, see example here
// Runs the txnFunc and retries if TransientTransactionError encountered
function runTransactionWithRetry(txnFunc, session) {
while (true) {
try {
txnFunc(session); // performs transaction
break;
} catch (error) {
// If transient error, retry the whole transaction
if ( error.hasOwnProperty("errorLabels") && error.errorLabels.includes("TransientTransactionError") ) {
print("TransientTransactionError, retrying transaction ...");
continue;
} else {
throw error;
}
}
}
}
// Retries commit if UnknownTransactionCommitResult encountered
function commitWithRetry(session) {
while (true) {
try {
session.commitTransaction(); // Uses write concern set at transaction start.
print("Transaction committed.");
break;
} catch (error) {
// Can retry commit
if (error.hasOwnProperty("errorLabels") && error.errorLabels.includes("UnknownTransactionCommitResult") ) {
print("UnknownTransactionCommitResult, retrying commit operation ...");
continue;
} else {
print("Error during commit ...");
throw error;
}
}
}
}
// Updates two collections in a transactions
function updateEmployeeInfo(session) {
employeesCollection = session.getDatabase("hr").employees;
eventsCollection = session.getDatabase("reporting").events;
session.startTransaction( { readConcern: { level: "snapshot" }, writeConcern: { w: "majority" } } );
try{
employeesCollection.updateOne( { employee: 3 }, { $set: { status: "Inactive" } } );
eventsCollection.insertOne( { employee: 3, status: { new: "Inactive", old: "Active" } } );
} catch (error) {
print("Caught exception during transaction, aborting.");
session.abortTransaction();
throw error;
}
commitWithRetry(session);
}
// Start a session.
session = db.getMongo().startSession( { readPreference: { mode: "primary" } } );
try{
runTransactionWithRetry(updateEmployeeInfo, session);
} catch (error) {
// Do something with error
} finally {
session.endSession();
}
