Remove a block from layout without a name

I found this issue in class Magento\Framework\View\Layout\ScheduledStructure\Helper

There is function _generateAnonymousName:

protected function _generateAnonymousName($class)
{
    $position = strpos($class, '\\Block\\');
    $key = $position !== false ? substr($class, $position + 7) : $class;
    $key = strtolower(trim($key, '_'));
    return $key . $this->counter++;
}

It's call from scheduleStructure function:

    public function scheduleStructure(
    Layout\ScheduledStructure $scheduledStructure,
    Layout\Element $currentNode,
    Layout\Element $parentNode
) {
    // if it hasn't a name it must be generated
    if (!(string)$currentNode->getAttribute('name')) {
        $name = $this->_generateAnonymousName($parentNode->getElementName() . '_schedule_block'); // CALL HERE
        $currentNode->setAttribute('name', $name);
    }
    $path = $name = (string)$currentNode->getAttribute('name');

    // Prepare scheduled element with default parameters [type, alias, parentName, siblingName, isAfter]
    $row = [
        self::SCHEDULED_STRUCTURE_INDEX_TYPE           => $currentNode->getName(),
        self::SCHEDULED_STRUCTURE_INDEX_ALIAS          => '',
        self::SCHEDULED_STRUCTURE_INDEX_PARENT_NAME    => '',
        self::SCHEDULED_STRUCTURE_INDEX_SIBLING_NAME   => null,
        self::SCHEDULED_STRUCTURE_INDEX_IS_AFTER       => true,
    ];

    $parentName = $parentNode->getElementName();
    //if this element has a parent element, there must be reset [alias, parentName, siblingName, isAfter]
    if ($parentName) {
        $row[self::SCHEDULED_STRUCTURE_INDEX_ALIAS] = (string)$currentNode->getAttribute('as');
        $row[self::SCHEDULED_STRUCTURE_INDEX_PARENT_NAME] = $parentName;

        list($row[self::SCHEDULED_STRUCTURE_INDEX_SIBLING_NAME],
            $row[self::SCHEDULED_STRUCTURE_INDEX_IS_AFTER]) = $this->_beforeAfterToSibling($currentNode);

        // materialized path for referencing nodes in the plain array of _scheduledStructure
        if ($scheduledStructure->hasPath($parentName)) {
            $path = $scheduledStructure->getPath($parentName) . '/' . $path;
        }
    }

    $this->_overrideElementWorkaround($scheduledStructure, $name, $path);
    $scheduledStructure->setPathElement($name, $path);
    $scheduledStructure->setStructureElement($name, $row);
    return $name;
}

With this case, Block name can be:

• before.body.end_schedule_block1
• before.body.end_schedule_block2
• ...

I think you should define totals block without the name on container and order block name need remove on the container.

I am really give u bad idea.

Here the idea is not stop output of your block

Using event view_block_abstract_to_html_after

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:Event/etc/events.xsd">
    <event name="view_block_abstract_to_html_after">
        <observer name="myObserverName" instance="Stack\Work\Observer\MyObserver" />
    </event>
</config>

And using this observer disable output of your block

<?php
namespace Stack\Work\Observer;
use Magento\Framework\Event\ObserverInterface;

class MyObserver implements ObserverInterface
{
  public function __construct()
  {
    //Observer initialization code...
    //You can use dependency injection to get any class this observer may need.
  }

  public function execute(\Magento\Framework\Event\Observer $observer)
  {
    $block = $observer->getData('block');

    if('[Vendor_Module]::template.phtml' == $block->getTemplate()){
        $transport = $observer->getData('transport');
        $transport->setHtml('');

    }
  }
}

I got an idea from Amit's answer and ended up with a working solution that does not look very intrusive and it's not an overkill since my code is executed only once.

I've created an observer on the event layout_generate_blocks_after that is executed after the layouts are loaded and the blocks are generated.

This can have a drawback because the block I'm trying to remove still gets instantiated, but in my case I just needed to remove it from the page.

So I have the file etc/adminhtml/events.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:Event/etc/events.xsd">
    <event name="layout_generate_blocks_after">
        <observer name="remove-the-block" instance="[MyVendor]\[MyModule]\Observer\RemoveBlock" />
    </event>
</config>

and my observer class:

<?php
namespace [MyVendor]\[MyModule]\Observer;

use Magento\Framework\Event\Observer;
use Magento\Framework\Event\ObserverInterface;

class RemoveBlock implements ObserverInterface
{
    const TEMPLATE_TO_REMOVE = '[OtherVendor]_[OtherModule]::template.phtml';
    public function execute(Observer $observer)
    {
        /** @var \Magento\Framework\View\Layout $layout */
        $layout = $observer->getLayout();
        $blocks = $layout->getAllBlocks();
        foreach ($blocks as $key => $block) {
            /** @var \Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template $block */
            if ($block->getTemplate() == self::TEMPLATE_TO_REMOVE) {
                $layout->unsetElement($key);
            }
        }
    }
}