Magento_Customer module

This module serves to handle the customer data (Customer, Customer Address and Customer Group entities) both in the admin panel and the storefront. For customer passwords, the module implements upgrading hashes.

Installation

The Magento_Customer module is one of the base Magento 2 modules. You cannot disable or uninstall this module. This module is dependent on the following modules:

• Magento_Eav
• Magento_Directory

The following modules depend on this module:

• Magento_Captcha
• Magento_Catalog
• Magento_CatalogCustomerGraphQl
• Magento_CatalogRule
• Magento_CompareListGraphQl
• Magento_CustomerAnalytics
• Magento_CustomerGraphQl
• Magento_EncryptionKey
• Magento_LoginAsCustomerGraphQl
• Magento_NewRelicReporting
• Magento_ProductAlert
• Magento_Reports
• Magento_Sales
• Magento_Swatches
• Magento_Tax
• Magento_Wishlist
• Magento_WishlistGraphQl

The Magento_Customer module creates the following tables in the database:

• customer_entity
• customer_entity_datetime
• customer_entity_decimal
• customer_entity_int
• customer_entity_text
• customer_entity_varchar
• customer_address_entity
• customer_address_entity_datetime
• customer_address_entity_decimal
• customer_address_entity_int
• customer_address_entity_text
• customer_address_entity_varchar
• customer_group
• customer_eav_attribute
• customer_form_attribute
• customer_eav_attribute_website
• customer_visitor
• customer_log

For information about a module installation in Magento 2, see Enable or disable modules.

Extensibility

Extension developers can interact with the Magento_Customer module. For more information about the Magento extension mechanism, see Magento plugins.

The Magento dependency injection mechanism enables you to override the functionality of the Magento_Customer module.

A lot of functionality in the module is on JavaScript, use mixins to extend it.

Events

The module dispatches the following events:

Block

• adminhtml_block_html_before event in the \Magento\Customer\Block\Adminhtml\Edit\Tab\Carts::_toHtml method. Parameters:
  • block is a $this object (Magento\Customer\Block\Adminhtml\Edit\Tab\Carts class)

Controller

• customer_register_success event in the \Magento\Customer\Controller\Account\CreatePost::execute method. Parameters:

  • account_controller is a $this object (\Magento\Customer\Controller\Account\CreatePost class)
  • customer is a customer object (\Magento\Customer\Model\Data\Customer class)

• customer_account_edited event in the \Magento\Customer\Controller\Account\EditPost::dispatchSuccessEvent method. Parameters:

  • email is a customer email (string type)

• adminhtml_customer_prepare_save event in the \Magento\Customer\Controller\Adminhtml\Index\Save::execute method. Parameters:

  • customer is a customer object to be saved (\Magento\Customer\Model\Data\Customer class)
  • request is a request object with the \Magento\Framework\App\RequestInterface interface.

• adminhtml_customer_save_after event in the \Magento\Customer\Controller\Adminhtml\Index\Save::execute method. Parameters:

  • customer is a customer object (\Magento\Customer\Model\Data\Customer class)
  • request is a request object with the \Magento\Framework\App\RequestInterface interface.

Model

• customer_customer_authenticated event in the \Magento\Customer\Model\AccountManagement::authenticate method. Parameters:

  • model is a customer object (\Magento\Customer\Model\Customer class)
  • password is a customer password (string type)

• customer_data_object_login event in the \Magento\Customer\Model\AccountManagement::authenticate method. Parameters:

  • customer is a customer object (\Magento\Customer\Model\Data\Customer class)

• customer_address_format event in the \Magento\Customer\Model\Address\AbstractAddress::format method. Parameters:

  • type is a address format type (string type)
  • address is a $this object (\Magento\Customer\Model\Address\AbstractAddress class)

• customer_customer_authenticated event in the \Magento\Customer\Model\Customer::authenticate method. Parameters:

  • model is a customer object (\Magento\Customer\Model\Customer class)
  • password is a customer password (string type)

• customer_save_after_data_object event in the \Magento\Customer\Model\ResourceModel\CustomerRepository::save method. Parameters:

  • customer_data_object is a saved customer object (\Magento\Customer\Model\Data\Customer class)
  • orig_customer_data_object is a previous customer object (\Magento\Customer\Model\Data\Customer class)
  • delegate_data is a customer additional data (array type)

• customer_session_init event in the \Magento\Customer\Model\Session::__construct method. Parameters:

  • customer_session is a $this object (\Magento\Customer\Model\Session class)

• customer_login event in the \Magento\Customer\Model\Session::setCustomerAsLoggedIn method. Parameters:

  • customer is a $this object (\Magento\Customer\Model\Customer class)

• customer_data_object_login event in the \Magento\Customer\Model\Session::setCustomerAsLoggedIn method. Parameters:

  • customer is a $this object (\Magento\Customer\Model\Data\Customer class)

• customer_login event in the \Magento\Customer\Model\Session::setCustomerDataAsLoggedIn method. Parameters:

  • customer is a $this object (\Magento\Customer\Model\Customer class)

• customer_data_object_login event in the \Magento\Customer\Model\Session::setCustomerDataAsLoggedIn method. Parameters:

  • customer is a $this object (\Magento\Customer\Model\Data\Customer class)

• customer_logout event in the \Magento\Customer\Model\Session::logout method. Parameters:

  • customer is a $this object (\Magento\Customer\Model\Customer class)

• visitor_init event in the \Magento\Customer\Model\Visitor::logout method. Parameters:

  • visitor is a $this object (\Magento\Customer\Model\Visitor class)

• visitor_activity_save event in the \Magento\Customer\Model\Visitor::saveByRequest method. Parameters:

  • visitor is a $this object (\Magento\Customer\Model\Visitor class)

For information about an event in Magento 2, see Events and observers.

Layouts

This module introduces the following layouts in the view/frontend/layout and view/adminhtml/layout directories:

• view/adminhtml/layout:

  • customer_address_edit
  • customer_group_index
  • customer_index_cart
  • customer_index_carts
  • customer_index_edit
  • customer_index_index
  • customer_index_newsletter
  • customer_index_orders
  • customer_index_viewcart
  • customer_index_viewwishlist
  • customer_online_index

• view/frontend/layout:

  • customer_account
  • customer_account_confirmation
  • customer_account_create
  • customer_account_createpassword
  • customer_account_edit
  • customer_account_forgotpassword
  • customer_account_index
  • customer_account_login
  • customer_account_logoutsuccess
  • customer_address_index
  • default

For more information about a layout in Magento 2, see the Layout documentation.

Public APIs

Data

• \Magento\Customer\Api\Data\AddressInterface:

  • customer address data

• \Magento\Customer\Api\Data\AddressSearchResultsInterface:

  • customer address search result data

• \Magento\Customer\Api\Data\AttributeMetadataInterface:

  • customer attribute metadata

• \Magento\Customer\Api\Data\CustomerInterface:

  • customer data

• \Magento\Customer\Api\Data\CustomerSearchResultsInterface:

  • customer search result data

• \Magento\Customer\Api\Data\GroupInterface:

  • customer group data

• \Magento\Customer\Api\Data\GroupSearchResultsInterface:

  • customer group search result data

• \Magento\Customer\Api\Data\OptionInterface:

  • option data

• \Magento\Customer\Api\Data\RegionInterface:

  • customer address region data

• \Magento\Customer\Api\Data\ValidationResultsInterface:

  • validation results data

• \Magento\Customer\Api\Data\ValidationRuleInterface:

  • validation rule data

Metadata

• \Magento\Customer\Api\MetadataInterface:

  • retrieve all attributes filtered by form code
  • retrieve attribute metadata by attribute code
  • get all attribute metadata
  • get custom attributes metadata for the given data interface

• \Magento\Customer\Api\MetadataManagementInterface:

  • check whether attribute is searchable in admin grid and it is allowed
  • check whether attribute is filterable in admin grid and it is allowed

Customer address

• \Magento\Customer\Api\AddressMetadataInterface:

  • retrieve information about customer address attributes metadata
  • extends Magento\Customer\MetadataInterface

• \Magento\Customer\Api\AddressMetadataManagementInterface:

  • manage customer address attributes metadata
  • extends Magento\Customer\Api\MetadataManagementInterface

• \Magento\Customer\Api\AddressRepositoryInterface:

  • save customer address
  • get customer address by address ID
  • retrieve customers addresses matching the specified criteria
  • delete customer address
  • delete customer address by address ID

• \Magento\Customer\Model\Address\AddressModelInterface

  • get street line by number
  • create fields street1, street2, etc

• \Magento\Customer\Model\Address\ValidatorInterface

  • validate address instance

• \Magento\Customer\Model\Address\CustomAttributeListInterface

  • retrieve list of customer addresses custom attributes

Customer

• \Magento\Customer\Api\AccountManagementInterface:

  • create customer account
  • create customer account using provided hashed password
  • validate customer data
  • check if customer can be deleted
  • activate a customer account using customer EMAIL and key that was sent in a confirmation email
  • activate a customer account using customer ID and key that was sent in a confirmation email
  • authenticate a customer by username and password
  • change customer password by customer EMAIL
  • change customer password by customer ID
  • send an email to the customer with a password reset link
  • reset customer password
  • check if password reset token is valid
  • gets the account confirmation status
  • resend confirmation email
  • check if given email is associated with a customer account in given website
  • check store availability for customer given the customer ID
  • retrieve default billing address for the given customer ID
  • retrieve default shipping address for the given customer ID
  • get hashed password

• \Magento\Customer\Api\CustomerManagementInterface:

  • provide the number of customer count

• \Magento\Customer\Api\CustomerMetadataInterface:

  • retrieve information about customer attributes metadata
  • extends Magento\Customer\MetadataInterface

• \Magento\Customer\Api\CustomerMetadataManagementInterface:

  • manage customer attributes metadata
  • extends Magento\Customer\Api\MetadataManagementInterface

• \Magento\Customer\Api\CustomerNameGenerationInterface:

  • concatenate all customer name parts into full customer name

• \Magento\Customer\Api\CustomerRepositoryInterface:

  • create or update a customer
  • get customer by customer EMAIL
  • get customer by customer ID
  • retrieve customers which match a specified criteria
  • delete customer
  • delete customer by customer ID

• \Magento\Customer\Model\AuthenticationInterface:

  • process customer authentication failure by customer ID
  • unlock customer by customer ID
  • check if a customer is locked by customer ID
  • authenticate customer by customer ID and password

• \Magento\Customer\Model\EmailNotificationInterface:

  • send notification to customer when email and/or password changed
  • send email with new customer password
  • send email with reset password confirmation link
  • send email with new account related information

Customer group

• \Magento\Customer\Api\CustomerGroupConfigInterface:

  • set system default customer group

• \Magento\Customer\Api\GroupManagementInterface:

  • check if customer group can be deleted
  • get default customer group
  • get customer group representing customers not logged in
  • get all customer groups except group representing customers not logged in
  • get customer group representing all customers

• \Magento\Customer\Api\GroupRepositoryInterface:

  • save customer group
  • get customer group by group ID
  • retrieve customer groups which match a specified criteria
  • delete customer group
  • delete customer group by ID

• \Magento\Customer\Model\Group\RetrieverInterface

  • get current customer group id from session

• \Magento\Customer\Model\Customer\Source\GroupSourceLoggedInOnlyInterface

  • get customer group attribute source

For information about a public API in Magento 2, see Public interfaces & APIs.

UI components

You can extend customer and customer address updates using the configuration files located in the view/adminhtml/ui_component and view/base/ui_component directories:

• view/adminhtml/ui_component:

  • customer_address_form
  • customer_address_listing
  • customer_group_listing
  • customer_listing
  • customer_online_grid

• view/base/ui_component:

  • customer_form

For information about a UI component in Magento 2, see Overview of UI components.

Additional information

More information can get at articles:

• Customer Configurations
• Customer Attributes
• Customer Address Attributes
• EAV And Extension Attributes
• 2.4.x Release information

Console commands

Magento_Customer provides console commands:

• bin/magento customer:hash:upgrade - upgrades a customer password hash to the latest hash algorithm

Cron options

Cron group configuration can be set at etc/crontab.xml:

• visitor_clean - clean visitor's outdated records

Learn how to configure and run cron in Magento..

Indexers

This module introduces the following indexers:

• customer_grid - customer grid indexer

Learn how to manage the indexers.

Last updated 4/5/2024

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