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Is there a way to declare a DB::instance() like there is for validation? Example;

function get_items()
{
  $query = DB::select('name')->from('items');
  // i would like to do something DB::instance('get_items')->select('name')..... 
  //so i can add to it later from another controller with DB::instance('get_items')->select('id')

  return $query->execute()->as_array();
}

Now, when I do 'return $query->exe....' i want to check modules to see if they want to "extend" the query so it can add a DB::select('id') to grab ID's as well. I was able to do this with the validation class by extending it and running a module check during the run() method. It worked fine because I was able to grab the instance using Validation::instance('name').. but the Database class doesn't seem to have something similar to instance, so I can't modify execute() this same way I did run() . Does the DB class have support for this type of instanceing? If not, any idea on how I could 'extend' a Model's method to modify a query without manually having to add a check in each method? I rather not completely over write the method either. Thanks