Stopping product saving process in observer

Question

I am currently developing a module working with the product edit in the backend. Its purpose is to retrieve categories the product belongs to and populate an attribute (the

Answer 1

In case you need to prevent the save method to execute for a core model (i.e. Catalog/Product), you can use reflection to set "$_dataSaveAllowed" to false:

public function catalogProductSaveBefore($observer)
{
    try {
        $product = $observer->getProduct();

        $reflectionClass = new ReflectionClass('Mage_Catalog_Model_Product');
        $reflectionProperty = $reflectionClass->getProperty('_dataSaveAllowed');
        $reflectionProperty->setAccessible(true);
        $reflectionProperty->setValue($product, false);
    } catch (Exception $e) {
            Mage::log($e->getMessage());
    }

    return $this;
}