How to put a comment into HQL (Hibernate Query Language)?

Question

Is it possible to put comments into Hibernate Query Language? If so, how?

Answer 1

AFAIK, HQL does not support comments.

Answer 2

Make sure your session is configured with:

<property name="hibernate.use_sql_comments">true</property>

Then do:

Query query = ...;
query.setComment("Some comment here");

and you will see something like the following in your MySQL log file (if you're using MySQL):

5998 Query /* Some comment here */ select .....