[BUG] TMDBHelper crashes when trying to open context menu on a movie inside Cast&More, but only in a very specific circumstance. Possible Memory Leak. Bug caused by Auramod Widget.

[movianlost]

When I'm in the Home page and I go to a widget and select a movie, then click on Cast&More then go Similar or Recommended etc, and I go to a movie and long press to bring the context menu, I get a tmdbHelper error as shown in the video below.

tmdbHelper.Error.mp4

Here is the log from the above error:
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/movianlost/57b95b8d50ba08b497c7d78e086c8e44/raw/4643ac3f8e8b02e5bfadb9a055bfa9de0ff71bbf/kodi.log

Note that I have tried this on two devices and I get the same error. And as you can see from the log, there is a warning about memory leak.

Now if I repeat the same thing, but instead of choosing a movie in the widget in the home screen, I instead click on the next page to show me more movies, as you know, even though the page may look similar, but the difference is that right now I'm using the tmdbHelper addon itself, whereas in the first example I was using Auramod widget. So I repeat the same thing as I did in the first example and I don't get any errors, here is the video.

temdbHelper.working.fine.mp4

The only difference between the two examples is that one was using tmdbHelper directly whereas the other was using Auramod widget, so there is something in the way Auramod widget in home screen is configured that gives this error.

[jojobrogess]

Similar to second Bug in #232 (comment)

I also reported another issue:

There also seems to be a bug when you try to use the context menu on items inside that view:
You get a error notification, and if you continue on and select information, it takes you there but you loose focus.

bandicam.2022-03-07.02-07-20-091.mp4

To which he responded:

The TMDbHelper error on context menu is likely due to AuraMod relying on a $VAR skin variable nested inside another skin variable to set tmdb_type=. The problem is that when a modal dialog pops-up (like context menu for example) then Kodi will only evaluate the parent variable, so any nested child variable becomes blank (hence the error because tmdbhelper needs a type of content to call that particular list). The child variable being blank on a modal dialog is a long standing Kodi bug that hasn't been fixed, so skins needs to work around it by not nesting important variables.