Can I use MyBatis to generate Dynamic SQL without executing it?

Although MyBatis was designed to execute the query after it builds it, you can make use of it's configuration and a little bit of "inside knowledge" to get to what you need.

MyBatis is a very nice framework, unfortunately it lacks on the documentations side so the source code is you friend. If you dig around you should bump into these classes: org.apache.ibatis.mapping.MappedStatement and org.apache.ibatis.mapping.BoundSql which are key players into building the dynamic SQL. Here is a basic usage example:

MySQL table user with this data in it:

name    login
-----   -----
Andy    a
Barry   b
Cris    c

User class:

package pack.test;
public class User {
    private String name;
    private String login;
    // getters and setters ommited
}

UserService interface:

package pack.test;
public interface UserService {
    // using a different sort of parameter to show some dynamic SQL
    public User getUser(int loginNumber);
}

UserService.xml mapper file:

<mapper namespace="pack.test.UserService">
    <select id="getUser" resultType="pack.test.User" parameterType="int">
       <!-- dynamic change of parameter from int index to login string -->
       select * from user where login = <choose>
                                           <when test="_parameter == 1">'a'</when>
                                           <when test="_parameter == 2">'b'</when>
                                           <otherwise>'c'</otherwise>
                                        </choose>
    </select>
</mapper>

sqlmap-config.file:

<configuration>
    <settings>
        <setting name="lazyLoadingEnabled" value="false" />
    </settings>
    <environments default="development">
        <environment id="development">
            <transactionManager type="JDBC"/>
            <dataSource type="POOLED">
                <property name="driver" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
                <property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost/test"/>
                <property name="username" value="..."/>
                <property name="password" value="..."/>
            </dataSource>
        </environment>
      </environments>
    <mappers>
        <mapper resource="pack/test/UserService.xml"/>
    </mappers>
</configuration>

AppTester to show the result:

package pack.test;

import java.io.Reader;
import org.apache.ibatis.io.Resources;
import org.apache.ibatis.mapping.BoundSql;
import org.apache.ibatis.mapping.MappedStatement;
import org.apache.ibatis.session.SqlSession;
import org.apache.ibatis.session.SqlSessionFactoryBuilder;

public class AppTester {
    private static String CONFIGURATION_FILE = "sqlmap-config.xml";

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        Reader reader = null;
        SqlSession session = null;
        try {

            reader = Resources.getResourceAsReader(CONFIGURATION_FILE);
            session = new SqlSessionFactoryBuilder().build(reader).openSession();
            UserService userService = session.getMapper(UserService.class);

            // three users retreived from index
            for (int i = 1; i <= 3; i++) {
                User user = userService.getUser(i);
                System.out.println("Retreived user: " + user.getName() + " " + user.getLogin());

                // must mimic the internal statement key for the mapper and method you are calling
                MappedStatement ms = session.getConfiguration().getMappedStatement(UserService.class.getName() + ".getUser");
                BoundSql boundSql = ms.getBoundSql(i); // parameter for the SQL statement
                System.out.println("SQL used: " + boundSql.getSql());
                System.out.println();
            }

        } finally {
            if (reader != null) {
                reader.close();
            }
            if (session != null) {
                session.close();
            }
        }
    }
}

And the result:

Retreived user: Andy a
SQL used: select * from user where login =  'a'

Retreived user: Barry b
SQL used: select * from user where login =  'b'

Retreived user: Cris c
SQL used: select * from user where login =  'c'

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13195144/can-i-use-mybatis-to-generate-dynamic-sql-without-executing-it

https://my.oschina.net/lichhao/blog/114311