I'm working in an environment where setting and retrieving objects to/from cache can be somewhat complex, and I want to handle caching of table metadata in a way that is not easily done with the available cache adapter mechanism.

Currently, our adapter has to parse the $key string to identify which type data we're caching (ie. table meta data) which is a pretty brittle solution and does not support future cached components such as the Model.

If we were able to extend the Table class, we could override some of the methods (such as the get_meta_data method) to customize them to meet our caching needs.

By adding the "make_table" factory method, we are able to able to subclass the Table class without affecting the rest of the calls to Table::load().