Filter By Default

Overriding the Model::find() function allows for a model to be filtered and sorted by default. This allows you to make it difficult to create a collection with important security filters in place.

For example, the following will ensure that only records without a delete flag set will be returned in collections by default.

public static function find(...$filters)
{
    $filters[] = new Equals( 'DeletedFlag', false );
    return parent::find(...$filter );
}

Note that while this cause collections returned by find or all to be filtered by default, there is nothing to stop someone from removing the filter (e.g. with replaceFilter()) so this is an incomplete approach to use as a method of data partitioning as it's easy to make a mistake that removes the data partitioning filter.