php - order meta stored with update_post_meta() is not readable until after page refresh

Question

I am trying to display a generated link on the thankyou page. The link will take the customer to a page to create a password for an account. I hook on to woocommerce_before_thankyou and gather the data I need to generate the link. Then I call update_post_meta() to save the link on the order object. I then add a woocommerce_thankyou_order_received_text filter where I try to get the link with get_meta(). But the data returned from get_meta is an empty string. And if I look in the db the value is stored correctly and if I refresh the thankyou page the link will show correctly.

// Set a default value
add_action(
  'woocommerce_checkout_update_order_meta',
  function ($orderId) {
    update_post_meta($orderId, '_order_poster_builder_url', '');
  }, 1, 1);

add_action('woocommerce_before_thankyou', function ($orderId) {
  // get order billing data to generate link from
  // I use order billing data to create a new user and a token. 
  // I use the token as part of the link I am generating. 
  // This part (the user and token creation) works fine. 
  $link = BASE_URL . "/activate/$token";
  // Set the meta
  update_post_meta($orderId, '_order_poster_builder_url', $link);
}, 1, 1);

add_filter('woocommerce_thankyou_order_received_text', function ($thank_you_title, $order)
{
  $html = "<div><p>";
  $html .= NB_THANK_YOU_TEXT;
  $html .= "</p>";

  $html .= "<p>Link: " . $order->get_meta('_order_poster_builder_url') . "</p>";
  $html .= "</div>";
  return  $html;
}, 20, 2);

So it seems the meta value is stored in db, but not updated on the order object when trying to get the meta in the title filter. I have tried to mangle the priorities on the different actions and filters but with no luck. What am I doing wrong?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65862022/order-meta-stored-with-update-post-meta-is-not-readable-until-after-page-refre

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