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Magento 2 Developer's Guide

You're reading from   Magento 2 Developer's Guide Harness the power of Magento 2 to extend and customize your online store

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785886584
Length 412 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Understanding the Platform Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing the Environment 3. Programming Concepts and Conventions 4. Models and Collections 5. Using the Dependency Injection 6. Plugins 7. Backend Development 8. Frontend Development 9. The Web API 10. The Major Functional Areas 11. Testing 12. Building a Module from Scratch Index

The plugin sort order


Looking back, when we defined a plugin in the di.xml file, one of the attributes that we set for every plugin definition was sortOrder. It was set to 100, 200 to 300 for foggyPlugin1, foggyPlugin2 and foggyPlugin3 respectively.

The flow of the code execution for the preceding plugins is as follows:

  • Plugin1 - beforeGetAddToCartUrl

  • Plugin1 - aroundGetAddToCartUrl

  • Plugin2 - beforeGetAddToCartUrl

  • Plugin2 - aroundGetAddToCartUrl

  • Plugin3 - beforeGetAddToCartUrl

  • Plugin3 - aroundGetAddToCartUrl

  • Plugin3 - afterGetAddToCartUrl

  • Plugin2 - afterGetAddToCartUrl

  • Plugin1 - afterGetAddToCartUrl

In other words, if multiple plugins are listening to the same method, the following execution order is used:

  • The before plugin functions with the lowest sortOrder value

  • The around plugin functions with the lowest sortOrder value

  • The before plugin functions following the sortOrder value from the lowest to the highest

  • The around plugin functions following the sortOrder value from the lowest to the highest

  • The...

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