driver.getCurrentUrl() returns data:, instead of actual URL - selenium

Question

I'm writing a test with Serenity BDD-Cucumber.
I want to check if the URL is correct when it's navigated. But the result always shows data, and my test fails with driver.getCurrentUrl().
Please see my code below:
Feature steps:
public void homePageOpens() {
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 15);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.titleContains("STORE"));
String homepageUrl = navigationUser.getUrl();
System.out.println(homepageUrl);
Assert.assertTrue(homepageUrl.contains("https://www.example.com/index.html"));
driver.close();
}
Navigation steps:
#Step("Get the URL")
public String getUrl() { return basePage.getUrl();
}
BasePage:
public String getUrl() {
System.out.println("just testing");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
return driver.getCurrentUrl();
}
This also opens a page with URL: "data:," which doesn't close after the test

Answer 1

Use driver.get in order to navigate somewhere.
String someUrl = "https://www.example.com/index.html";
driver.get(someUrl);
This code:
public String getUrl() {
System.out.println("just testing");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
return driver.getCurrentUrl();
}
just launch the browser, and the initial url is data:,.
Also it's unclear why BasePage getUrl() method launches the new webdriver and uses it as a local variable. But in homePageOpens() method in feature steps looks like some another driver used..