Filter Aliases

Overview

Filter Aliases allow you to assign short or contextual names to filter classes, enabling reusable logic with cleaner naming in requests or controller logic.

⚙️ Setup

In your config/filterable.php, define aliases like so:

'aliases' => Filterable::aliases([
    'active_users' => App\Filters\ActiveUserFilter::class,
    'vip' => App\Filters\VipUserFilter::class,
]),

🧪 Usage

User::filter('active_users')->get();

The appropriate filter classes will be resolved and applied automatically.

💡 Benefits

• Cleaner API interface.
• Reusability of filter classes across contexts.
• Improves frontend-backend consistency.

⚠️ Notes

• Alias names must be unique.
• If an alias and real filter share the same key, the real filter will be prioritized.