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I Do Not Think that Word Means What you Think it Means

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One recent Magento 2 discovery that caught me off guard is, per the dev docs site, the <action/> method tag is depreciated

The <action> instruction is deprecated. If the method implementation allows, use the <argument> for <block> or <referenceBlock> to access block public API.

Given this, it sort of makes sense that the <container/> tags don’t allow you to call any action methods that, at first blush, you might expect them to (such as <action method="unsetChild"/>)

That said, for a depreciated tag, it’s weird to see it’s still used in 136 core layout files.

$ find vendor/magento/ -name '*.xml' | xargs ack -l '<action method' | wc -l
     136

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Originally Posted: 20th February 2016

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