Missing Billing Address Error in Admin Dashboard When Creating Order via REST API with Only Payment Information

[bhushan-cs]

Preconditions and environment

• Magento 2.4.7-p4

Steps to reproduce

1. Authenticate with valid bearer token
2. Send PUT request to /rest/V1/orders/create with the following payload:
   { "entity": { "payment": { "method": "cashondelivery" } } }

Expected result

The API should return error with message "Please provide billing address for the order." and return a 400 status code.

Actual result

• If you open the admin dashboard you get this error

Error: Call to a member function getName() on null in /Users/bhushan/Sites/magento_test/vendor/magento/module-backend/Block/Dashboard/Orders/Grid.php:105

Stack trace.txt

• The API returns success 200 status code and returns created order json

{ "base_grand_total": null, "base_total_due": 0, "created_at": "2025-02-21 18:50:46", "customer_email": null, "entity_id": 4, "grand_total": null, "increment_id": "000000004", "protect_code": "5afbdfaa9f582fa84f271c2ff94452b3", "store_name": "Main Website\nMain Website Store\nDefault Store View", "total_due": 0, "total_item_count": 0, "updated_at": "2025-02-21 18:50:46", "items": [], "payment": { "account_status": null, "additional_information": [ null ], "cc_last4": null, "entity_id": 4, "method": "cashondelivery", "parent_id": 4 }, "status_histories": [] }

Additional information

No response

Release note

No response

Triage and priority

• Severity: S0 - Affects critical data or functionality and leaves users without workaround.
• Severity: S1 - Affects critical data or functionality and forces users to employ a workaround.
• Severity: S2 - Affects non-critical data or functionality and forces users to employ a workaround.
• Severity: S3 - Affects non-critical data or functionality and does not force users to employ a workaround.
• Severity: S4 - Affects aesthetics, professional look and feel, “quality” or “usability”.

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[engcom-Bravo]

Hi @bhushan-cs,

Thanks for your reporting and collaboration.

We have tried to reproduce the issue in Latest 2.4-develop instance and the issue is reproducible.Kindly refer the screenshots.

We are getting error when we open admin dashboard Error: Call to a member function getName() on null in /usr/local/var/www/magentop/magento2/app/code/Magento/Backend/Block/Dashboard/Orders/Grid.php:105

Hence Confirming the issue.

Thanks.

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✅ Jira issue https://jira.corp.adobe.com/browse/AC-14049 is successfully created for this GitHub issue.

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