There is no good way to set custom model fillers

[jfadich]

In a project I'm working on I want to use a custom filler. There is a setModelFiller method on the search builder to apply custom fillers, but there is no good way to call it since using the search() method always returns a new instance of the builder. There is also not a config option to set a custom filler.

You can't do this because setModelFiller is not fluent.

Model::search()->setModelFiller(...)->match(...)

You also can't do this because using the search() method always returns a new instance of the builder.

Model::search()->setModelFiller(...);
Model::search()->match(...);

I created pull request #168 to enable the first example.

Current workaround it to store a builder variable:

$search = Model::search();
$search->setModelFiller(...);
$search->match(...);