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Handling Optimistic Locking Failure

Explore how to handle optimistic locking failures when editing data in Thymeleaf and Spring Boot. Learn to detect version conflicts, provide user-friendly error messages using @ControllerAdvice, and maintain data consistency during concurrent updates.

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Testing the version

We added a version field to our User entity in order to use Optimistic Locking. We can quickly test if this works with the following steps:

  • Open the application in two different tabs (or browsers).
  • Click the “Edit” link for a user in the first tab and do the same (for the same user) in the other tab.
  • Change
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