title: Joomla get('Items') and how it works
body: <p>I am looking at line 34 of /administrator/components/com_contact/views/contacts/view.html.php where is says <code>$this-&gt;items       = $this-&gt;get('Items');</code> What I don't understand is how that is actually calling the <code>protected function getListQuery()</code> on line 123 of /administrator/components/com_contact/models/contacts.php</p>
  
  <p>There are also some other things I don't understand how are working... like </p>
  
  <pre><code>$this-&gt;pagination   = $this-&gt;get('Pagination');
  $this-&gt;state        = $this-&gt;get('State');
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What are these calling? I looked at the documentation for "get()" but it doesn't say what these are actually calling because I don't see any methods called getPagination, getState or getItems... It appears the get('Items') is somehow magically calling getListQuery().</p>