Allow a more flexible mechanism for adding new functionality to HQL ------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-5583 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-5583 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: New Feature Components: query-criteria, query-hql Reporter: Fabio adriano Lisboa Gomes Why not allow a more flexible mechanism for adding features not provided by HQL? Perhaps an escape mechanism, which can be placed in any position in the HQL. The HQL parser could call a method, for example, {{String escapeTranslator(String input)}}. Each dialect could have an implementation of this method. The default implementation could return the escape characters unchanged. The absence of a more flexible mechanism forces the use of hacks like the one described in the blog [http://www.znetdevelopment.com/blogs/2009/10/07/using-use-index-with-hibe...]. *For example*: Suppose the escape characters are delimited by slash slash (//). So we could write {{String HQL = select u from User u //use index (my_index)//}} If no specific implementation of {{escapeTranslator (..)}} is provided, the HQL parser could return {{select u from User u use index (my_index)}} This implementation is very flexible and at the same time, portable, since different dialects could provide their own implementations of the {{scapeTranslator}} method. The escape delimiters characters could be defined by {{query.setEscapeDelimiter (String begin, String end)}} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/Administrators.... - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira