fix(@angular/ssr): resolve relative redirects against the parent route

[bschaeublin]

Fixes #34300

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What is the current behavior?

Issue Number: #34300

A relative redirectTo is resolved on the server by removing only the last segment of the full route path. For a route whose own path has several segments, { path: 'old/page', redirectTo: 'new/page' } redirects /old/page to /old/new/page, while the router navigates to /new/page, as it replaces all segments matched by the route.

What is the new behavior?

Relative redirects are resolved against the parent route path, which traverseRoutesConfig already passes down. This matches the router for multi-segment paths, empty paths and catch-all routes, including prerendered routes with getPrerenderParams, where the parameters are substituted into the parent path (previously a ** expanded to several segments shifted the base, e.g. docs/** with a/b redirected to /docs/a/new instead of /new).

Single-segment and empty-path routes resolve exactly as before.

Does this PR introduce a breaking change?

• Yes
• No

This changes the redirect target only for relative redirects on routes whose own path has more than one segment. The previous target was never a URL the router would navigate to, so this is treated as a fix. The two app_spec.ts expectations that asserted the previous result (redirect/relative → /redirect/home, redirect/:param/relative → /redirect/param/home) now expect the router's result /home. If you consider this breaking, I'm happy to adjust.

Other information

Tests: new cases in ng-routes_spec.ts (multi-segment path under a parameter, prerendered multi-segment path with getPrerenderParams, prerendered ** with getPrerenderParams) and app_spec.ts (relative redirect under a parameterized parent route through app.handle). Verified locally with //packages/angular/ssr/test:test, the tests/build/server-rendering e2e tests (esbuild, Node 24) and ng-dev release build.

Not covered by this change: positional parameters in redirectTo itself (redirectTo: 'profile/:id') are still emitted literally, as before.

Related: #34299 (query string on relative redirects, #34298). Both change the end of resolveRedirectTo, so whichever lands second needs a small rebase.

[gemini-code-assist]

Code Review

This pull request updates the Angular SSR routing logic to resolve relative redirects against the parent route instead of the current route path, aligning with Angular router behavior. It introduces a parentRoute parameter to routing handlers and updates resolveRedirectTo accordingly, accompanied by comprehensive unit tests. The review feedback points out that if parentRoute contains a catch-all wildcard (**), it will not be resolved correctly because only URL parameters are being replaced; it suggests also replacing CATCH_ALL_REGEXP for consistency.

[bschaeublin]

While working on this, I noticed a related gap. On the server, parameters written in the redirect target itself aren't filled in, so they end up in the URL as literal text:

Route	Request	Server Location	Router navigates to
user/:id → profile/:id	/user/7	/profile/:id	/profile/7
search/:term → /find?q=:x	/search/cats?x=dogs	/find?q=:x	/find?q=dogs

It's independent of this PR and #34299, but a fix would touch the same code, so I didn't want to open a third PR right away. Happy to send it as a follow-up once these land, if you'd like.

[alan-agius4]

LGTM

[alan-agius4]

This PR was merged into the repository. The changes were merged into the following branches:

• main: b3bbada
• 22.2.x: a2b86cc