How to get the view and layout in Joomla 2.5

In Joomla 2.5 if you want to know the requested uri :

 $uri =& JURI::getInstance(); echo 'Request URI is ' . $uri->toString() . "\n"; 

And for the view and layout you can do the following :

echo (JRequest::getCmd('view')) ."Is the View"; 

echo( JRequest::getCmd('layout'))."Is the Layout"; exit;  

Why is that ? Because Joomla 2.5 using SEF routing that changes the requested route to a new segments related to your category's id and name as well as to the article's id and alias . Which will leads you to no where if you programming a joomla module and need to extract the coming request to check the required view and layout.