How to search by objects in Yii2 array?

Question

Yii

The question is this: I have an array with objects, I need to do a search by objects so as not to make a request to the database every time

// hasMany
 $list = $user->getList()->all();

Answer 1

and than usual where does not approach?
$list = $user->getList()->where(['id'=>2])->all();