Is there a way in Slick to force an alias for a selected field.
The use-case is the following.
For now I'm writing this:

TableQuery[Person].map { person => my_udf('something', person.firstName, person.lastName) }

And it generates:

SELECT my_udf('something', FIRSTNAME, LASTNAME) FROM PERSON

Which is excellent (all I'm caring about is the generated SQL, I'm not executing it using JDBC).

The only thing is that I'd like to provide my own alias for the SQL as such:

SELECT my_udf('something', FIRSTNAME, LASTNAME) AS the_result FROM PERSON

I couldn't find a way to do it. Is this possible?
I thought about mapping the result on a case class as defined here or maybe even providing an as extension method on Rep that would modify the way the Rep is represented as String (or extend Rep maybe).

Is there any pointer I've missed? Thank you.

Note: I understand that my use case might be unusual, since I only care about the SQL statement as a String, and not executing it against a driver. So most users shouldn't worry about aliasing the fields they selected. But just in case you might have give me a hint on how to workaround that (writing and managing my own extension method totally would work for me for instance)