Search suggestion leads to 404 page (Not using correct URL)

[adriyanj0]

Hello,

We are developing Magento 2 store, where we use the module Smile ElasticSuite.

We are facing an issue using the search bar. When i type a result, there are category suggestions, which have to redirect to the exact category. The problem is that, for plenty of categories the redirect leads to 404 page. We analyzed the issue and saw that the url, to which the suggestion redirects, is wrong. As wee see the url contains global url, even though we open it from a suggestion on a specific store view.

Moreover, we checked the code and found something, which may be the conundrum:

$documentSource = $category->getDocumentSource();
if ($documentSource && isset($documentSource['url_path'])) {
    $urlPath = is_array($documentSource['url_path']) ? current($documentSource['url_path']) : $documentSource['url_path'];
    return trim($this->urlBuilder->getDirectUrl($urlPath), '/') . $this->categoryUrlSuffix;

We see that, these code makes a check, from which it gets the "url_path", which is the problem from our opinion, because if there is no check the code which is gonna be executed is $category->getUrl(), which responds with the correct URL and the problem is not happening.

Magento version: 2.4.6-p6
Elastic Suite version: 2.11.8.3
Magento websites: Currently 4-5 websites