[EDIT] Account_id Param Required when submitting an order as a Guest

[m4tt133]

Hi!

I have been struggling with a strange error on my development storefront.

The Problem:
It seems that I cannot place an order using the Frontend API when the user is not authenticated.

Description:
Although the default checkout hosted on Swell seems to be working, my application receives an error:

Checking if the swell session is present:

The API call = const user = await swell.account.get(); resolves in null and the cookies seem to be cleared when I log out on my front end.

Desired Outcome:
Unauthenticated users can place an order.

Can you help me provide any clue in figuring this out?

EDIT:

I think that I've found a cause for this problem.

It seems that according to your Frontend documentation, the cart object for the unauthenticated user should have a property account_logged_in=true and guest=true, however, my cart object when the user is unauthenticated seems to have account_logged_in=null and guest=true. Is there a way that I can set this cart property to false, with the code?

I think that that is why your API responds with a missing account_id error :)

Take a look at the screenshots below.

Logged OUT:

Logged IN:

It has been a frustrating error that has been happening for about a month. (I have not been touching any code responsible for order placing since then.)

Cheers,

[logeshswell]

@m4tt133 What you see is expected behavior and the order can't be submitted without account.email (or account_id).
Please look into the below section to update email and password (if applicable) to the cart before submitting the order.
https://developers.swell.is/frontend-api/carts#update-cart-account-info

If you want your users to submit the order without authentication, then pass only email_id as follows:

await swell.cart.update({
  account: {
    email: '[email protected]'
  }
})
await swell.cart.submitOrder()