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Magento 2: Sort Order gets Weird for “Around” Plugins
Interesting bit of insight from Anton Kril on plugin firing order. My naive assumption on how this would work was
- All before plugins fire
- The around plugin chaining happens
- All after plugins fire
However, based on what Anton’s said here, it sounds like an around plugin will fire before a before plugin if it has a lower sort order that the before plugin. Beyond the trickiness of following a chain of execution, this has extra implications for an around plugin that decides to skip the call to $proceed() – not only can it cancel the actual method call, it can also cancel other calls to before plugins as well.