[hibernate-dev] Adding fetch joins to HQL queries programatically

[Ali H. Ibrahim]

Hi,

I would like to be able to extend the functionality of 
org.hibernate.Query in two ways:

1. Have a method on Query that returns the result aliases and their 
position in the resulting object array. I think this information is 
already available at the QueryImpl level, but just not exposed through 
the public Query interface. Right now, if you do not use the 
AliasToMapResultTransformer this information cannot be accessed.

2. Being able to add fetch joins programmatically for a given alias. 
This is possible through straight hacking of the Hibernate code (I found 
the cleanest place to add the fetch join was in QueryLoader, but it 
could be done at the AST level too). I would like to do able to do this 
without resorting hacking Hibernate directly, but instead through a 
public API or extension point. Of course I could parse the HQL directly, 
but that is very ugly.

Both of these points are already available in Criteria.

Regards,

Ali Ibrahim
Autofetch: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~aibrahim/autofetch