How do I prevent exceptions from causing a transaction rollback under Grails?

Question

My Grails service is having an issue where a swallowed exception unrelated to a transaction is causing the transaction to rollback even when it is unrelated to the persistance o

Answer 1

In addition to @Burt Beckwith's answer, if you have a service where you just don't want transactions (which I actually did in my case) you can turn off transactions on all public methods by adding

static transactional = false

to the Service class.