TYPO3 Core

There should be a function which considers language and workspace while selecting records from a table:

->getRecords('table', $where);

There are just few extensions which do language handling the right way and nearly none which are able to preview workspace.

We realy tried very hard to comprehend and integrate workspace preview (with versionOL), but it just not works like it should and nobuddy can realy answer how it has to be done.

It would make things that much easier if one could call a function with table name and where clause which returns the records considering language and workspace (and all the other cool TYPO3 things).
(issue imported from #M8889)