This is a (multiple allowed):

• bug

• enhancement

• feature-discussion (RFC)

• CakePHP Version: 4.0.0

Currently finders support the following API: find($name, array $options = []) which translates to findName(Query $query, array $options).

While it provides a nice way of configuring finder options it forces you to manually check and validate each option if you accept specific classes or types of options.

I was thinking that maybe we could allow anything to be passed to the finder and make PHP validate arguments with type hinting.

For example finder declared as findSomething(Query $q, Entity $e, int $number) could be called like find('something', $entity, 5).

I think that could be achieved painlessly with variadic arguments (... syntax). Table::find($type = 'all', $options = []) can be changed into Table::find($type = 'all', ... $args). It would still accept array as a second argument and pass it correctly to the finder method.

What do you think? Should it be as easy as it looks or maybe I'm missing something?