Fix self-referential foreign key recursion#709
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ascott18 merged 3 commits intoMay 12, 2026
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Hi @dkattan - thanks for the contribution. I see this is still a draft PR - was that intentional, or is it ready for a look? |
Split direct foreign-key discovery from the shared-key fallback heuristics so self-referential and non-conventional navigation names don't recurse through ForeignKeyProperty while model validation is still trying to classify the relationship. Add regression coverage for a self-referential navigation and for a consumer that targets that entity. Validated with Coalesce tests on net10 and with Immybot's ImmybotDbContext, where generation now reaches normal model validation errors instead of stack overflowing. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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I just marked it as ready. I'm working on a bunch of other contributions at the moment, this was just the first. Really excited to have discovered this library. I have been trying unsuccessfully to stitch something like this together for years. |
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Summary
Root cause
PropertyViewModel.ForeignKeyProperty could recurse indefinitely while trying to infer shared-key one-to-one relationships from navigation properties whose direct FK could not be resolved yet. Self-referential and cross-linked navigations made that especially easy to trigger.
While investigating against Immybot, the recursion showed up in cycles like:
This change keeps the shared-key heuristics, but only allows them to inspect direct FK matches instead of recursively re-entering ForeignKeyProperty.
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