Magento 2: How to get secure category URL programmatically?

Question

I have a custom category indexer which grabs Magento categories and index them to a search service. Within each category I need to index it's URL which I do by code

$url = $category->getUrl();

where $category is instance of Magento\Catalog\Model\Category.

The issue is when the store is set to use Secure URLs in front end. Then this code always return the not-secure URL. Do you know how to get the secure one?

With product I solved it with code

$url = $product->getUrlModel()->getUrl($product, ['_secure' => true]);

because simple $url = $product->getProductUrl(); returned a not-secure URL as well.

However from Category I don't have access to any UrlModel or any way how to pass _secure parameter to getUrl() method.

My current configuration: enter image description here

Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

Finally I "hacked" it by getting UrlInstance from Category object, getting secure and non-secure base URLs and replacing it according front-end setting:

private function getUrl(Category $category)
{
 $categoryUrl = $category->getUrl();
 if ($this->config->useSecureUrlsInFrontend($category->getStoreId()) === false) {
 return $categoryUrl;
 }
 $unsecureBaseUrl = $category->getUrlInstance()->getBaseUrl(['_secure' => false]);
 $secureBaseUrl = $category->getUrlInstance()->getBaseUrl(['_secure' => true]);
 if (strpos($categoryUrl, $unsecureBaseUrl) === 0) {
 return substr_replace($categoryUrl, $secureBaseUrl, 0, mb_strlen($unsecureBaseUrl));
 }
 return $categoryUrl;
}

So far it works fine.

If you have more elegant (less hacky) solution, please post it here. I'm happy to change the correct answer.

Answer 2

I used Jan's idea. But I had to get the secue_base_url for the store using storeManagerInterface. So I did something like this:

// using \Magento\Store\Model\StoreManagerInterface storeManagerInterface
public function getCategoryUrl($category) {
 $categoryUrl = $category->getUrl();
 $unSecureBaseUrl = $this->storeManagerInterface->getStore()->getBaseUrl(\Magento\Framework\UrlInterface::URL_TYPE_WEB, false);
 if (strpos($categoryUrl, $unSecureBaseUrl) === 0) {
 $secureBaseUrl = $this->storeManagerInterface->getStore()->getBaseUrl(\Magento\Framework\UrlInterface::URL_TYPE_WEB, true);
 $categoryUrl = substr_replace($categoryUrl, $secureBaseUrl, 0, strlen($unSecureBaseUrl));
 }
 return $categoryUrl;
}