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I'm trying to get a little more familiar with writing extensions. I am still struggling with finding the correct / most specific hook function for my patches regularly.

As a specific example, I am altering an SQL call in sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Case/BAO/Case.php::getCaseActivity(). So if I want to create an extension for that, I would need a hook function that will be called whenever sth is read from a database table. I checked all the hooks in https://docs.civicrm.org/dev/en/latest/hooks/ but couldn't find a suitable one.

Is there a hook function like that? Is there a more specific alternative to save resources (checking the hook extension each time a database table is called would happen lots of times)?

Can I create custom hook "call points" to determine at which line of code a hook is called?

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There is no hook for reading data from the database. There are hooks however for rendering forms and pages.

There is also a hook for api v3 which is called before and after each api call. That hook is called apiWrapper

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  • As you said there is a hook for reading data from the database - can you tell me which one?
    – emma
    Commented Oct 8, 2020 at 14:19
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    I believe Jaap dropped a word "no". There isn't a hook for reading data from the database. Such a hook would be near impossible to write, because unlike writing to the database, reading the database can happen in many ways - viewing a contact, doing a search, running a report, etc.
    – Jon G - Megaphone Tech
    Commented Oct 9, 2020 at 12:52

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