Add a column to all MySQL Select Queries in a single shot

Question

Trying to add a comment to all MySQL Select Queries in my web application at runtime.

For example, the original queries in the code looks like:

select a,b,c from ......
select x,y from...

All of these need to be modified at runtime to:

select a,b,c /*Comment*/ from ...
select x,y /*Comment*/ from ...

The application runs on Hibernate 4.2.1. Only solution I can think of is extending the org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect and add the /*Comment*/ in the new CustomMySQLDialect.

A little confused on which method to modify to accomplish this. Would appreciate any pointer in the right direction.

Can transformSelectString(java.lang.String) method in org.hibernate.dialect.Dialect be overridden to accomplish this?

EDIT 1: transformSelectString in a Custom MySQL Dialect is not working for runtime SQL modification

Answer 1

Create a Custom DB Interceptor

package com.felix.dao.interceptor;
import org.hibernate.EmptyInterceptor;

public class CustomDBInterceptor extends EmptyInterceptor {

  @Override
  public String onPrepareStatement(String sql) {
    String commentStr = "/*Comment*/"
    return super.onPrepareStatement(commentStr+sql);
  }

}

In the Spring Context file, configure the Interceptor for the session factory:

<bean id="customDBInterceptor" class="com.felix.dao.interceptor.CustomDBInterceptor"/>
<bean id="sessionFactory"
    class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
    <property name="dataSource" ref="datasource" />
    <property name="entityInterceptor">
        <ref bean="customDBInterceptor"/>
    </property>
    ...
</bean>

Make sure the Custom DB Interceptor does not have a cyclic dependency on the sessionFactory. With the above, all queries fired through the session factory, are intercepted, modified and then passed to the onPrepareStatement method.