Method: projects.instances.databases.sessions.commit

Commits a transaction. The request includes the mutations to be applied to rows in the database.

sessions.commit might return an ABORTED error. This can occur at any time; commonly, the cause is conflicts with concurrent transactions. However, it can also happen for a variety of other reasons. If sessions.commit returns ABORTED, the caller should re-attempt the transaction from the beginning, re-using the same session.

On very rare occasions, sessions.commit might return UNKNOWN. This can happen, for example, if the client job experiences a 1+ hour networking failure. At that point, Cloud Spanner has lost track of the transaction outcome and we recommend that you perform another read from the database to see the state of things as they are now.

HTTP request

POST https://spanner.googleapis.com/v1/{session=projects/*/instances/*/databases/*/sessions/*}:commit

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
session

string

Required. The session in which the transaction to be committed is running.

Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource session:

  • spanner.databases.write

Request body

The request body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "mutations": [
    {
      object (Mutation)
    }
  ],
  "returnCommitStats": boolean,
  "maxCommitDelay": string,
  "requestOptions": {
    object (RequestOptions)
  },

  // Union field transaction can be only one of the following:
  "transactionId": string,
  "singleUseTransaction": {
    object (TransactionOptions)
  }
  // End of list of possible types for union field transaction.
}
Fields
mutations[]

object (Mutation)

The mutations to be executed when this transaction commits. All mutations are applied atomically, in the order they appear in this list.
returnCommitStats

boolean

If true, then statistics related to the transaction will be included in the CommitResponse. Default value is false.
maxCommitDelay

string (Duration format)

Optional. The amount of latency this request is configured to incur in order to improve throughput. If this field is not set, Spanner assumes requests are relatively latency sensitive and automatically determines an appropriate delay time. You can specify a commit delay value between 0 and 500 ms.

A duration in seconds with up to nine fractional digits, ending with 's'. Example: "3.5s".
requestOptions

object (RequestOptions)

Common options for this request.
Union field transaction. Required. The transaction in which to commit. transaction can be only one of the following:
transactionId

string (bytes format)

sessions.commit a previously-started transaction.

A base64-encoded string.
singleUseTransaction

object (TransactionOptions)

Execute mutations in a temporary transaction. Note that unlike commit of a previously-started transaction, commit with a temporary transaction is non-idempotent. That is, if the CommitRequest is sent to Cloud Spanner more than once (for instance, due to retries in the application, or in the transport library), it is possible that the mutations are executed more than once. If this is undesirable, use sessions.beginTransaction and sessions.commit instead.

Response body

The response for sessions.commit.

If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "commitTimestamp": string,
  "commitStats": {
    object (CommitStats)
  }
}
Fields
commitTimestamp

string (Timestamp format)

The Cloud Spanner timestamp at which the transaction committed.

A timestamp in RFC3339 UTC "Zulu" format, with nanosecond resolution and up to nine fractional digits. Examples: "2014-10-02T15:01:23Z" and "2014-10-02T15:01:23.045123456Z".
commitStats

object (CommitStats)

The statistics about this sessions.commit. Not returned by default. For more information, see CommitRequest.return_commit_stats.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spanner.data
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

CommitStats

Additional statistics about a commit.

JSON representation 
{
  "mutationCount": string
}
Fields
mutationCount

string (int64 format)

The total number of mutations for the transaction. Knowing the mutationCount value can help you maximize the number of mutations in a transaction and minimize the number of API round trips. You can also monitor this value to prevent transactions from exceeding the system limit. If the number of mutations exceeds the limit, the server returns INVALID_ARGUMENT.