Core class used for querying comments.

Make private/protected methods readable for backward compatibility.

Constructor.

Fetch descendants for located comments.

Used internally to get a list of comment IDs matching the query vars.

Get a list of comments matching the query vars.

Used internally to generate an SQL string for searching across multiple columns.

Parse an ‘order’ query variable and cast it to ASC or DESC as necessary.

Parse and sanitize ‘orderby’ keys passed to the comment query.

Parse arguments passed to the comment query with default query parameters.