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    Fix activity.getcount function to filter out unpermitted activities. · ff2a3553
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    As part of an ongoing performance refactor of the activity.get api handling this extends the application of activity
    type filtering to the getcount function.
    
    The current methodology of the activity.get api is to load all activities that meet the passed in criteria and
    then go through them one by one running a series of queries on each one to determine if the contact has
    permission to see them and if not then filtering them from the array. At some point this did work with
    getcount but it had a crippling performance impact. More recently getcount was simply giving a fatal error
    when acls were in play and right before this patch the status was that no permissions
    were applied when the action is getcount.
    
    This alters that to partially apply permissions - notably a filter is added to the query that reflects
    which activity types the contact may access - this is basically those with no component or a component
    the contact has high level permissions to. It is a check that is applied in the 'allow' function
    and it still will be after this but it's a fairly cheap check and it will always return TRUE
    from here on as no activities will be fetched if their activity type is not available.
    
    The mechanism is that the CRM_Utils_SQL_Select class calls the relevant addSelectWhereClause but ONLY when
    check_permissions is TRUE. In this case the activity type filter is added if they don't have
    permission to check all activities.
    
    Tangental changes
    1) test enabled for getcount with activity type checks
    2) I added a type casting for activity_type_id in the function that retrieves
    and caches them - it should be pretty impossible for them not to be all integers
    but as I later concat them this seems a good security insurance
    3) I changed a very recently added function used in this from public to protected. It was added in Dec 2018
    and is only called from the Activity BAO and I want to discourage other classes from calling it
    now that I believe this is the correct approach.
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