Jroute behavior in com_content article page when called outside the component

[fsa13]

Related to Extension development.

In 3.9(.2) I have now noticed that in com_content Article page calling JRoute from template or modules, the normal JRoute gives an URL that is compounded from the current article page link:

Article URL: /jooma-site/category/article1
JRoute URL for another link normally: /joomla-site/category2
Above link when called the same JRoute in the Article page: /jooma-site/category/article1/category2

The actual JRoute in the Article layout [did a test by overriding the core article page layout] (or inside the component) works perfectly, e.g. give in the above example: /joomla-site/category2.

The problem happens only when using the same JRoute call outside the com_content component (e.g. template or module). In other com_content layout pages the outside call to JRoute works perfectly.

Adding or removing ItemId to/from the JRoute link has no effect.

Is this a valid bug?

[madsdad]

I am seeing a similar problem with the Latest Articles module. Links appear to be built including the current url, rather than domain/index.php, prepended to the slug of the article. While Joomla finds the article, the resulting url includes a /category/ or a /current-page/ that does not belong.

domain/index.php/category/some/slug is incorrect when slug belongs to a different category.

This situation creates problems when, say, my custom plugin should affect articles of a certain category only.

[fsa13]

I discovered the reason for the initial problem of all JRoute::_ -links having the current URL as baseline. I had a call

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JURI::root( false, JRoute::_(ContentHelperRoute::getArticleRoute($this->item->slug, $this->item->catid))

inside the layout override template. This call seems to mix all JRoute-calls outside the layout template.