Closed alexstandiford closed 4 years ago
This doesn't really work in BerlinDB, at least not now due to the nature of how shape_items
works. You can't really do joins or something more sophisticated unless there is some way to actually tell BerlinDB to just run the query.
I brought this up in issue #61
The intent here is to make it possible for child classes to extend
prepare_query
without utilizing WordPress hooks. The key benefit of this is better-control over this hook, and to make it easier for direct integrations to extend the Query class. Without this, the only way to extend Query is through hooks, which in the context of a child class is awkward.To better-articulate the goal, this makes it possible for a child class to directly view the query arguments, and manipulate the actual query that comes through. This is a little different than a query processor in-that it isn't a BerlinDB-wide integration, but instead a query-specific integration.
Say, for example, you want to fetch data by querying a pivot table. This would make it possible to add query args for this specific type of query that can tell it to JOIN the other tables in the pivot table with minimal changes to how the system works elsewhere.