feat(seo): optimized category URLs with full category path

e2e/cypress/integration/pages/shopping/family.page.ts

@@ -15,6 +15,6 @@ export class FamilyPage {
   readonly filterNavigation = new FilterNavigationModule();
 
   static navigateTo(categoryUniqueId: string, page?: number) {
-    cy.visit(`/cat${categoryUniqueId}${page ? `?page=${page}` : ''}`);
+    cy.visit(`/ctg${categoryUniqueId}${page ? `?page=${page}` : ''}`);
   }
 }

e2e/cypress/integration/pages/shopping/product-detail.page.ts

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ export class ProductDetailPage {
 
   static navigateTo(sku: string, categoryUniqueId?: string) {
     if (categoryUniqueId) {
-      cy.visit(`/sku${sku}-cat${categoryUniqueId}`);
+      cy.visit(`/sku${sku}-ctg${categoryUniqueId}`);
     } else {
       cy.visit(`/sku${sku}`);
     }

e2e/cypress/integration/specs/system/rest-error-handling.b2c.e2e-spec.ts

@@ -107,15 +107,15 @@ describe('Missing Data', () => {
       at(HomePage, page => page.header.gotoCategoryPage(_.catalog));
       at(CategoryPage, page => page.gotoSubCategory(_.categoryid));
       at(NotFoundPage);
-      cy.url().should('contain', `cat${_.categoryid}`);
+      cy.url().should('contain', `ctg${_.categoryid}`);
     });
   });
 
   describe('of category on Category Page', () => {
     it('should lead straight to error page', () => {
       FamilyPage.navigateTo('ERROAR');
       at(NotFoundPage);
-      cy.url().should('contain', 'catERROAR');
+      cy.url().should('contain', 'ctgERROAR');
     });
   });
 });

e2e/cypress/integration/specs/system/seo-product-detail-page.b2c.e2e-spec.ts

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ describe('Page Meta', () => {
     at(ProductDetailPage, page => {
       page.metaData.check({
         title: 'Google Home - Smart Home | Intershop PWA',
-        url: /.*\/Smart-Home\/Google-Home-sku201807171-catHome-Entertainment.SmartHome$/,
+        url: /.*\/smart-home\/Google-Home-sku201807171-ctgHome-Entertainment.SmartHome$/,
         description: 'Google Home - Hands-free help from the Google Assistant',
         'og:image': /.*201807171_front.*/,
       });
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ describe('Page Meta', () => {
     at(FamilyPage, page => {
       page.metaData.check({
         title: 'Smart Home - Home Entertainment | Intershop PWA',
-        url: /.*\/Smart-Home-catHome-Entertainment.SmartHome$/,
+        url: /.*\/smart-home-ctgHome-Entertainment.SmartHome$/,
         description: 'Smart Home, Hands-free help from the Google AssistantSmart HomeHome Entertainment',
       });
     });

e2e/cypress/integration/specs/system/seo-search-page.b2c.e2e-spec.ts

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ describe('Page Meta', () => {
     at(ProductDetailPage, page => {
       page.metaData.check({
         title: 'Kodak Slice  - Digital Cameras | Intershop PWA',
-        url: /.*\/Digital-Cameras\/Kodak-Slice-sku3957284-catCameras-Camcorders.575$/,
+        url: /.*\/digital-cameras\/Kodak-Slice-sku3957284-ctgCameras-Camcorders.575$/,
         description: 'Kodak Slice  - Slice - 14MP, 5x optisch, 16:9, nickel',
         'og:image': /.*3957284-5640.jpg.*/,
       });

e2e/test-universal.sh

@@ -20,19 +20,19 @@ echo "Waiting for $waitOn"
 npx wait-on "$waitOn"
 
 universalTest 1 "${PWA_BASE_URL}/" "router-outlet><ish-home-page"
-universalTest 2 "${PWA_BASE_URL}/catComputers.1835.151" "router-outlet><ish-category-page"
+universalTest 2 "${PWA_BASE_URL}/computers/notebooks-and-pcs/notebooks-ctgComputers.1835.151" "router-outlet><ish-category-page"
 universalTest 3 "${PWA_BASE_URL}/login" "<ish-loading"
 universalTest 4 "${PWA_BASE_URL}/register" "Create Account"
-universalTest 5 "${PWA_BASE_URL}/catComputers.1835" "<h1>Notebooks and PCs</h1>"
-universalTest 6 "${PWA_BASE_URL}/catComputers.1835" "<h3>PCs</h3>"
-universalTest 7 "${PWA_BASE_URL}/catComputers.1835.151" "add-to-compare"
+universalTest 5 "${PWA_BASE_URL}/computers/notebooks-and-pcs-ctgComputers.1835" "<h1>Notebooks and PCs</h1>"
+universalTest 6 "${PWA_BASE_URL}/computers/notebooks-and-pcs-ctgComputers.1835" "<h3>PCs</h3>"
+universalTest 7 "${PWA_BASE_URL}/computers/notebooks-and-pcs/notebooks-ctgComputers.1835.151" "add-to-compare"
 universalTest 8 "${PWA_BASE_URL}/home" "intershop-pwa-state"
 universalTest 9 "${PWA_BASE_URL}/home" "&q;baseURL&q;:"
 universalTest 10 "${PWA_BASE_URL}/home" "<ish-content-include includeid=.include.homepage.content.pagelet2-Include"
 universalTest 11 "${PWA_BASE_URL}/home" "<link rel=.canonical. href=.${PWA_CANONICAL_BASE_URL}/home.>"
 universalTest 12 "${PWA_BASE_URL}/home" "<meta property=.og:image. content=./assets/img/og-image-default"
 universalTest 13 "${PWA_BASE_URL}/home" "<title>inTRONICS Home | Intershop PWA</title>"
-universalTest 14 "${PWA_BASE_URL}/sku6997041" "<link rel=.canonical. href=.${PWA_CANONICAL_BASE_URL}/Notebooks/Asus-Eee-PC-1008P-Karim-Rashid-sku6997041-catComputers.1835.151.>"
+universalTest 14 "${PWA_BASE_URL}/sku6997041" "<link rel=.canonical. href=.${PWA_CANONICAL_BASE_URL}/notebooks/Asus-Eee-PC-1008P-Karim-Rashid-sku6997041-ctgComputers.1835.151.>"
 universalTest 15 "${PWA_BASE_URL}/sku6997041" "<meta property=.og:image. content=[^>]*6997041"
 universalTest 16 "${PWA_BASE_URL}/sku6997041" "<title>Asus Eee PC 1008P .Karim Rashid. [^>]* | Intershop PWA</title>"
 universalTest 17 "${PWA_BASE_URL}/home;device=tablet" "class=.header container tablet"

src/app/core/facades/product-context.facade.spec.ts

@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ describe('Product Context Facade', () => {
       });
 
       it('should calculate the url property of the product with default category', () => {
-        expect(context.get('productURL')).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"//sku123-catABC"`);
+        expect(context.get('productURL')).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"//sku123-ctgABC"`);
       });
     });
 
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ describe('Product Context Facade', () => {
       });
 
       it('should calculate the url property of the product with context category', () => {
-        expect(context.get('productURL')).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"//sku123-catASDF"`);
+        expect(context.get('productURL')).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"//sku123-ctgASDF"`);
       });
     });
 
@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ describe('Product Context Facade', () => {
       });
 
       it('should calculate the url property of the product with context category', () => {
-        expect(context.get('productURL')).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"//sku123-catASDF"`);
+        expect(context.get('productURL')).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"//sku123-ctgASDF"`);
       });
     });
   });

src/app/core/models/category-view/category-view.model.ts

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import { Category } from 'ish-core/models/category/category.model';
 export interface CategoryView extends Category {
   children: string[];
   hasChildren: boolean;
+  pathElements: Category[];
 }
 
 export function createCategoryView(tree: CategoryTree, uniqueId: string): CategoryView {
@@ -21,6 +22,9 @@ export function createCategoryView(tree: CategoryTree, uniqueId: string): Catego
     ...tree.nodes[translateRef(tree, uniqueId)],
     children: tree.edges[translateRef(tree, uniqueId)] || [],
     hasChildren: !!tree.edges[translateRef(tree, uniqueId)] && !!tree.edges[translateRef(tree, uniqueId)].length,
+    pathElements: (tree.nodes[translateRef(tree, uniqueId)]?.categoryPath || [])
+      .map(path => tree.nodes[translateRef(tree, path)])
+      .filter(x => !!x),
   };
 }
 

src/app/core/routing/category/category.route.spec.ts

@@ -68,10 +68,10 @@ describe('Category Route', () => {
     const category = createCategoryView(categoryTree([{ ...specials, name: undefined }]), specials.uniqueId);
 
     it('should be created', () => {
-      expect(generateCategoryUrl(category)).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"/catSpecials"`);
+      expect(generateCategoryUrl(category)).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"/ctgSpecials"`);
     });
 
-    it('should not be a match for matcher', () => {
+    it('should be a match for matcher', () => {
       expect(matchCategoryRoute(wrap(generateCategoryUrl(category)))).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
         Object {
           "categoryUniqueId": "Specials",
@@ -84,10 +84,10 @@ describe('Category Route', () => {
     const category = createCategoryView(categoryTree([specials]), specials.uniqueId);
 
     it('should be created', () => {
-      expect(generateCategoryUrl(category)).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"/Spezielles-1/2-Preis-Aktion-mehr-catSpecials"`);
+      expect(generateCategoryUrl(category)).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"/spezielles-1/2-preis-aktion-mehr-ctgSpecials"`);
     });
 
-    it('should not be a match for matcher', () => {
+    it('should be a match for matcher', () => {
       expect(matchCategoryRoute(wrap(generateCategoryUrl(category)))).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
         Object {
           "categoryUniqueId": "Specials",
@@ -100,10 +100,12 @@ describe('Category Route', () => {
     const category = createCategoryView(categoryTree([specials, topSeller, limitedOffer]), limitedOffer.uniqueId);
 
     it('should be created', () => {
-      expect(generateCategoryUrl(category)).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"/Black-Friday-catSpecials.TopSeller.LimitedOffer"`);
+      expect(generateCategoryUrl(category)).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
+        `"/spezielles-1/2-preis-aktion-mehr/angebote/black-friday-ctgSpecials.TopSeller.LimitedOffer"`
+      );
     });
 
-    it('should not be a match for matcher', () => {
+    it('should be a match for matcher', () => {
       expect(matchCategoryRoute(wrap(generateCategoryUrl(category)))).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
         Object {
           "categoryUniqueId": "Specials.TopSeller.LimitedOffer",
@@ -146,12 +148,12 @@ describe('Category Route', () => {
   describe('generateLocalizedCategorySlug', () => {
     it('should generate slug for top level category', () => {
       const category = createCategoryView(categoryTree([specials]), specials.uniqueId);
-      expect(generateLocalizedCategorySlug(category)).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"Spezielles-1/2-Preis-Aktion-mehr"`);
+      expect(generateLocalizedCategorySlug(category)).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"spezielles-1/2-preis-aktion-mehr"`);
     });
 
     it('should generate slug for deep category', () => {
       const category = createCategoryView(categoryTree([specials, topSeller, limitedOffer]), limitedOffer.uniqueId);
-      expect(generateLocalizedCategorySlug(category)).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"Black-Friday"`);
+      expect(generateLocalizedCategorySlug(category)).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"black-friday"`);
     });
 
     it('should return empty string when category is unavailable', () => {

src/app/core/routing/category/category.route.ts

@@ -2,31 +2,43 @@ import { UrlMatchResult, UrlSegment } from '@angular/router';
 import { MonoTypeOperatorFunction } from 'rxjs';
 import { filter } from 'rxjs/operators';
 
+import { CategoryView } from 'ish-core/models/category-view/category-view.model';
 import { Category } from 'ish-core/models/category/category.model';
 import { CoreState } from 'ish-core/store/core/core-store';
 import { selectRouteParam, selectRouteParamAorB } from 'ish-core/store/core/router';
-import { reservedCharactersRegEx } from 'ish-core/utils/routing';
+import { sanitizeSlugData } from 'ish-core/utils/routing';
 
+/**
+ * generate a localized category slug
+ *
+ * @param category category element for slug
+ * @returns localized, formatted category slug
+ */
 export function generateLocalizedCategorySlug(category: Category) {
-  return (
-    category?.name
-      ?.replace(reservedCharactersRegEx, '-')
-      .replace(/-+/g, '-')
-      .replace(/-+$/, '')
-      .replace('-cat', '-Cat') || ''
-  );
+  return sanitizeSlugData(category?.name);
 }
 
-const categoryRouteFormat = /^\/(?!category|categoryref\/.*$)(.*-)?cat(.*)$/;
+// matcher to check if a given url is a category route
+const categoryRouteFormat = /^\/(?!category|categoryref\/.*$)(.*?)-?ctg(.*)$/;
 
+/**
+ * check if given url is a category route
+ *
+ * @param segments current url segments
+ * @returns match result if given url is a category route or not
+ */
 export function matchCategoryRoute(segments: UrlSegment[]): UrlMatchResult {
   // compatibility to old routes
   if (segments && segments.length === 2 && (segments[0].path === 'category' || segments[0].path === 'categoryref')) {
     return { consumed: [] };
   }
 
+  // generate complete url path
   const url = `/${segments.map(s => s.path).join('/')}`;
+
+  // check that complete url path is a category route
   if (categoryRouteFormat.test(url)) {
+    // select categoryUniqueId to render a category component
     const match = categoryRouteFormat.exec(url);
     const posParams: { [id: string]: UrlSegment } = {};
     if (match[2]) {
@@ -40,19 +52,29 @@ export function matchCategoryRoute(segments: UrlSegment[]): UrlMatchResult {
   return;
 }
 
-export function generateCategoryUrl(category: Category): string {
+/**
+ * generate a localized category url from a category view
+ *
+ * @param category category view
+ * @returns localized category url
+ */
+export function generateCategoryUrl(category: CategoryView): string {
   if (!category) {
     return '/';
   }
-  let route = '/';
 
-  route += generateLocalizedCategorySlug(category);
+  // generate for each path element from the given category view a category slug and join them together to a complete route
+  let route = `/${category.pathElements
+    ?.filter(x => !!x)
+    .map(el => generateLocalizedCategorySlug(el))
+    .join('/')}`;
 
+  // add to category route the category identifier
   if (route !== '/') {
     route += '-';
   }
 
-  route += `cat${category.uniqueId}`;
+  route += `ctg${category.uniqueId}`;
 
   return route;
 }

src/app/core/routing/product/product.route.spec.ts

@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ describe('Product Route', () => {
         const product = createProductView({ sku: 'A' } as Product, specials);
 
         it('should be created', () => {
-          expect(generateProductUrl(product, category)).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"/Spezielles/skuA-catSpecials"`);
+          expect(generateProductUrl(product, category)).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"/spezielles/skuA-ctgSpecials"`);
         });
 
         it('should be a match for matcher', () => {
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ describe('Product Route', () => {
 
         it('should be created', () => {
           expect(generateProductUrl(product, category)).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
-            `"/Spezielles/Das-neue-Surface-Pro-7-skuA-catSpecials"`
+            `"/spezielles/Das-neue-Surface-Pro-7-skuA-ctgSpecials"`
           );
         });
 
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ describe('Product Route', () => {
         const product = createProductView({ sku: 'A' } as Product, specials);
 
         it('should be created', () => {
-          expect(generateProductUrl(product)).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"/Spezielles/skuA-catSpecials"`);
+          expect(generateProductUrl(product)).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"/spezielles/skuA-ctgSpecials"`);
         });
 
         it('should be a match for matcher', () => {
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ describe('Product Route', () => {
 
         it('should be created', () => {
           expect(generateProductUrl(product)).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
-            `"/Spezielles/Das-neue-Surface-Pro-7-skuA-catSpecials"`
+            `"/spezielles/Das-neue-Surface-Pro-7-skuA-ctgSpecials"`
           );
         });
 
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ describe('Product Route', () => {
 
         it('should be created', () => {
           expect(generateProductUrl(product, category)).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
-            `"/Black-Friday/skuA-catSpecials.TopSeller.LimitedOffer"`
+            `"/black-friday/skuA-ctgSpecials.TopSeller.LimitedOffer"`
           );
         });
 
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ describe('Product Route', () => {
 
         it('should be created', () => {
           expect(generateProductUrl(product, category)).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
-            `"/Black-Friday/Das-neue-Surface-Pro-7-skuA-catSpecials.TopSeller.LimitedOffer"`
+            `"/black-friday/Das-neue-Surface-Pro-7-skuA-ctgSpecials.TopSeller.LimitedOffer"`
           );
         });
 
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ describe('Product Route', () => {
 
         it('should be created', () => {
           expect(generateProductUrl(product)).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
-            `"/Black-Friday/skuA-catSpecials.TopSeller.LimitedOffer"`
+            `"/black-friday/skuA-ctgSpecials.TopSeller.LimitedOffer"`
           );
         });
 
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ describe('Product Route', () => {
 
         it('should be created', () => {
           expect(generateProductUrl(product)).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
-            `"/Black-Friday/Das-neue-Surface-Pro-7-skuA-catSpecials.TopSeller.LimitedOffer"`
+            `"/black-friday/Das-neue-Surface-Pro-7-skuA-ctgSpecials.TopSeller.LimitedOffer"`
           );
         });
 

src/app/core/routing/product/product.route.ts

@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ function generateProductSlug(product: ProductView) {
   return slug.replace('-cat', '-Cat');
 }
 
-const productRouteFormat = new RegExp('/(?!cat)((?!.*-cat.*-sku).*-)?sku(.*?)(-cat(.*))?$');
+// matcher to check if a given url is a product url
+const productRouteFormat = /\/(?!ctg)(?!.*-ctg.*-sku)(.*?)-?sku(.*?)(-ctg(.*))?$/;
 
 export function matchProductRoute(segments: UrlSegment[]): UrlMatchResult {
   // compatibility to old routes
@@ -78,7 +79,7 @@ export function generateProductUrl(product: ProductView, category?: Category): s
   route += `sku${product.sku}`;
 
   if (contextCategory) {
-    route += `-cat${contextCategory.uniqueId}`;
+    route += `-ctg${contextCategory.uniqueId}`;
   }
 
   return route;