Clearing $order->data changes data type from array to string with critical results
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<h3 id="summary-problem-motivation">Problem/Motivation</h3>
<p>We ran into <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-6"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/commerce_addressbook/issues/3113047" title="Status: Closed (works as designed)">#3113047: Cannot use string offset as an array in commerce_addressbook_commerce_order_presave</a></span> for anonymized orders / profiles, which in debugging lead me to commerce_gdpr with this implementation parts:</p>
<p>Clears $order->data:</p>
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<pre><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br></span><span style="color: #DD0000">'commerce_order' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> array(<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'mail' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> array(<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'type' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'hash'</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'max_length' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">255</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br> ),<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'hostname' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> array(<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'type' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'hash'</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'max_length' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">255</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br> ),<br> </span><span style="color: #FF8000">// NOTE: revision_hostname is always populated automatically<br> // by CommerceOrderEntityController::save(), we can't overwrite<br> // this value.<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'data' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> array(<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'type' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'clear'</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br> ),<br> ),<br></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span></span></pre></div>
<p>Clears any non-numeric values to empty string:</p>
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<pre><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br></span><span style="color: #007700">case </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'clear'</span><span style="color: #007700">:<br> if (</span><span style="color: #0000BB">is_numeric</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$value</span><span style="color: #007700">)) {<br> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$output </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">0</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br> }<br> else {<br> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$output </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #DD0000">''</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br> }<br> break;<br></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span></span></pre></div>
<p>This causes the ARRAY $order->data to be cast to string and follow-up implementations which expect it to be array (as it should be) fail.</p>
<h4 id="summary-steps-reproduce">Steps to reproduce</h4>
<p>Anonymize an order</p>
<h3 id="summary-proposed-resolution">Proposed resolution</h3>
<p>Add a check for is_array and is_object and clear it to the correct type.</p>
<h3 id="summary-remaining-tasks">Remaining tasks</h3>
<p>Write patch<br>
Review patch<br>
Commit</p>
<h3 id="summary-ui-changes">User interface changes</h3>
<p>None</p>
<h3 id="summary-api-changes">API changes</h3>
<p>None</p>
<h3 id="summary-data-model-changes">Data model changes</h3>
<p>None</p>
> Related issue: [Issue #3113047](https://www.drupal.org/node/3113047)
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