Unable de reload customer data section

Question

I discover that some native route are listed in the section xml file without any section :

<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:module:Magento_Customer:etc/sections.xsd">
    <action name="customer/account/logout"/>
    <action name="customer/account/loginPost"/>
    <action name="customer/account/createPost"/>
    <action name="customer/account/editPost"/>
    <action name="customer/ajax/login">
        <section name="checkout-data"/>
        <section name="cart"/>
    </action>
</config>

In this case the SectionConfigConverter.php will add '*' to signify all sections need to be reloaded. But when one of this route are used, magento try to reload this sections and I got :

"*" section source is not supported

It doesn't seem that the native code is able to deal with the '*' it has added itself. Have you already encounter/resolve this bug ?

Thank you in advance

Answer 1

I can't understand why this is not working out of the box, but here is workaround for issue:

Plugin which makes this job. In case the * symbol was found in list of section names it makes the section name equals null which means for the Magento\Customer\CustomerData\SectionPool class to update all the sections.

etc/di.xml

<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:ObjectManager/etc/config.xsd">
    <!-- Plugins -->
    <type name="Magento\Customer\CustomerData\SectionPool">
        <plugin name="workaround_update_all_sections"
                type="MageWorx\CustomerDataFix\Plugin\UpdateAllCustomerDataSections"
                sortOrder="10"
                disabled="false"/>
    </type>
</config>

app/code/MageWorx/CustomerDataFix/Plugin/UpdateAllCustomerDataSections.php

<?php
/**
 * Copyright © MageWorx. All rights reserved.
 * See LICENSE.txt for license details.
 */

namespace MageWorx\CustomerDataFix\Plugin;

use Magento\Customer\CustomerData\SectionPool;

/**
 * Class UpdateAllCustomerDataSections
 *
 * Update all sections in case the wildcard symbol was found in the sections-to-update array
 */
class UpdateAllCustomerDataSections
{
    /**
     * @param SectionPool $subject
     * @param array|null $sectionNames
     * @param bool $updateIds
     * @return array
     */
    public function beforeGetSectionsData(
        SectionPool $subject,
        array $sectionNames = null,
        $updateIds = false
    ) {
        // Trying to find a wildcard in the "sections-to-update" array
        if (!empty($sectionNames) && array_search('*', $sectionNames) !== false) {
            // If found drop all section names to allow update of all sections
            $sectionNames = null;
        }

        return [$sectionNames, $updateIds];
    }
}

Complete code (module) could be found here on GitHub.

I found a strange code and I think that it should be responsible for this:

Magento_Customer/js/section-config.js

    getAffectedSections: function (url) {
        var route = canonize(url),
            actions = _.find(sections, function (val, section) {
                var matched;

                if (section.indexOf('*') >= 0) {
                    section = section.replace(/\*/g, '[^/]+') + '$';
                    matched = route.match(section);

                    return matched && matched[0] == route; //eslint-disable-line eqeqeq
                }

                return route.indexOf(section) === 0;
            });

        return _.union(_.toArray(actions), _.toArray(sections['*']));
    },

but a route could match the * section only in case it has no /. I don't know how it could be achieved in real world :\ Maybe it could be useful for you somehow.