[FIX] web: prevent destroyed widget from calling start

Whenever a widget is destroyed, it should be as inactive as possible.
Before this commit, it could happen that a widget was destroyed after
the willstart method, but before the start method. In that case, bad
things could happen.

For example, the discuss client action tries to look up some information
into the session, with the getSession method. This causes a crash
whenever the widget is destroyed.

2 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/addons/web/static/src/js/core/widget.js b/addons/web/static/src/js/core/widget.js
index 5e23c3f2c47..b25cd99587b 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/src/js/core/widget.js
+++ b/addons/web/static/src/js/core/widget.js
@@ -391,6 +391,9 @@ var Widget = core.Class.extend(mixins.PropertiesMixin, ServicesMixin, {
     _widgetRenderAndInsert: function (insertion, target) {
         var self = this;
         return this.willStart().then(function () {
+            if (self.__parentedDestroyed) {
+                return;
+            }
             self.renderElement();
             insertion(target);
             return self.start();
diff --git a/addons/web/static/tests/core/widget_tests.js b/addons/web/static/tests/core/widget_tests.js
index 43b9d0dc334..19e72cb97b6 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/tests/core/widget_tests.js
+++ b/addons/web/static/tests/core/widget_tests.js
@@ -388,6 +388,26 @@ QUnit.module('core', {}, function () {
         assert.ok(true,
             "there should be no crash when calling _rpc on a destroyed widget");
     });
+
+    QUnit.test('start is not called when widget is destroyed', function (assert) {
+        assert.expect(0);
+        var slowWillStartDef = $.Deferred();
+        var $fix = $( "#qunit-fixture");
+
+        var widget = new (Widget.extend({
+            willStart: function () {
+                return slowWillStartDef;
+            },
+            start: function () {
+                throw new Error('Should not call start method');
+            },
+        }))();
+
+        widget.appendTo($fix);
+        widget.destroy();
+        slowWillStartDef.resolve();
+    });
+
 });
 
 });
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