How to get SQL from Hibernate Criteria API (*not* for logging)

Question

Is there a way to get the (to-be-generated) SQL from a Hibernate Criteria?

Ideally, I would have something like:

Criteria criteria = session.createCriteria(Operator.class);

... build up the criteria ...
... and then do something like ...

String sql = criteria.toSql()

(But this of course does not exist)

The idea would then be to use the SQL as part of a huge 'MINUS' query (I need to find the differences between 2 identical schemas - identical in structure, not in data - and the MINUS is not supported by Hibernate)

(BTW I know I can check the SQL from the log files)

Answer 1

Here's "another" way to get the SQL :

CriteriaImpl criteriaImpl = (CriteriaImpl)criteria;
SessionImplementor session = criteriaImpl.getSession();
SessionFactoryImplementor factory = session.getFactory();
CriteriaQueryTranslator translator=new CriteriaQueryTranslator(factory,criteriaImpl,criteriaImpl.getEntityOrClassName(),CriteriaQueryTranslator.ROOT_SQL_ALIAS);
String[] implementors = factory.getImplementors( criteriaImpl.getEntityOrClassName() );

CriteriaJoinWalker walker = new CriteriaJoinWalker((OuterJoinLoadable)factory.getEntityPersister(implementors[0]), 
                        translator,
                        factory, 
                        criteriaImpl, 
                        criteriaImpl.getEntityOrClassName(), 
                        session.getLoadQueryInfluencers()   );

String sql=walker.getSQLString();