From d905ab6fed2ec52090840f5156a5d94de430ad22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yonas Habteab <yonas.habteab@netways.de>
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2021 16:08:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Model: Add possibility to initialize the model's query

---
 src/Model.php | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Model.php b/src/Model.php
index 804a599..87d1d8c 100644
--- a/src/Model.php
+++ b/src/Model.php
@@ -69,9 +69,14 @@ public function getMetaData()
      */
     public static function on(Connection $db)
     {
-        return (new Query())
+        $self = new static();
+        $query = (new Query())
             ->setDb($db)
-            ->setModel(new static());
+            ->setModel($self);
+
+        $self->initQuery($query);
+
+        return $query;
     }
 
     /**
@@ -122,6 +127,17 @@ public function createRelations(Relations $relations)
     {
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Initialize this model's Query
+     *
+     * If you want to initialize the query right after it's construction, override this method
+     *
+     * @param Query $query
+     */
+    public function initQuery(Query $query)
+    {
+    }
+
     /**
      * Initialize the model
      *

From bbfcb24c1d21a4a15fee4612bac5931844098bc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yonas Habteab <yonas.habteab@netways.de>
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2021 16:09:51 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] `Query::utilize()`: Allow arrays as argument type too

---
 src/Query.php | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Query.php b/src/Query.php
index 8754a5f..6d610da 100644
--- a/src/Query.php
+++ b/src/Query.php
@@ -312,14 +312,16 @@ public function getUtilize()
     /**
      * Add a relation to utilize (join)
      *
-     * @param string $path
+     * @param string|string[] $paths
      *
      * @return $this
      */
-    public function utilize($path)
+    public function utilize($paths)
     {
-        $path = $this->getResolver()->qualifyPath($path, $this->getModel()->getTableName());
-        $this->utilize[$path] = $this->getResolver()->resolveRelation($path);
+        foreach ((array) $paths as $path) {
+            $path = $this->getResolver()->qualifyPath($path, $this->getModel()->getTableName());
+            $this->utilize[$path] = $this->getResolver()->resolveRelation($path);
+        }
 
         return $this;
     }