How to override reorder functionality in Magento 2 by disabling core plugin?

Hello readers, how’s your Magento development going, I hope it’s going fine.

You must have landed this post, because you are looking for solutions on how you can override reorder functionality in Magento 2 by disabling core plugin. No worries I will be guiding you through this solution.

So first of all, I will show you from the last two days the things that I have done to override the reorder functionality in Magento 2, then I will give you the final solutions.

Steps I took to override the reorder functionality in Magento 2

1. To override the functionality, I created around plugin which didn’t work because one of core magento extensions was already used around plugin for that and they are not using callable($proceed) function in around plugin so that the function process terminated there.

2. Tried to override core magento extension plugin files through preference which didn’t work because we can’t override the core plugins through preference.

3. Tried to change the sequence of core magento extension through custom extension and tried to load custom extension first but didn’t work because we can’t load core extension after custom extension. We can add dependency in our custom extension but that dependency calls core extension first.

4. Finally I disabled core magento extension plugin through custom extension and then call my custom plugin after it. This trick works like a charm.
(Please find the code below)

Please create a custom extension and write the below code in etc/di.xml.

<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:ObjectManager/etc/config.xsd">
    <type name="Magento\Sales\Controller\Order\Reorder">
        <plugin name="replaceQuoteItems" type="Magento\NegotiableQuote\Plugin\Sales\Controller\Order\ReorderPlugin" disabled="true" />
        <plugin name="replaceOrderItem" type="VendorName\ModuleName\Plugin\Sales\Controller\Order\ReorderPlugin" />
    </type>
</config>

Now, Please run the DI compile process: php bin/magento setup:di:compile

I hope this post can save someone’s valuable time and help him/her to understand the basic concepts of the Magento 2 framework.

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