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A circular reference is a series of references where the last object references the first, resulting in a closed loop.

A circular reference is a series of references where the last object references the first, resulting in a closed loop.

Circular references can appear in computer programming when one piece of code requires the result from another, but that code needs the result from the first.

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Circular reference issue in 3-tier architecture C#

I want to build a web application with 3-tier architecture in ASP.NET. But I am getting a problem of circular referencing. I have 3 layer: Application layer containing UI. Business layer containing all the logic and domain classes. Data layer…
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How to save an object with circular references?

I want to save locally an object which has circular references. What are my options? My first thought was using HTML5 local storage but I can't stringify this object due to the circular references. Specifically I'm trying to save the DOMSelection…
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Visual Studio for Mac: Logs work on a Project and are shown on Azure, but fail on another Project of same Solution

On the main Project of the Solution I have: public static void Main(string[] args) { // Testing Logs on Azure Application Insights: var telemetry = new Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.TelemetryClient(); telemetry.TrackTrace("Test of…
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Circular reference — architecture question

This is probably a very beginner question but I have searched a lot of topics and couldn't really find the same situation, although I'm sure this kind of situation happens all the time. My project/program is going to track changes to drawings on…
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Difference between adding a unit to the interface or the implementation section

If I have a unit that is filled with constants like... unit AConsts; interface const Const1 : WideString = 'Const1'; Const2 : WideString = 'Const2'; Const3 : WideString = 'Const3'; Const4 = 100; Const5 = 100; implementation end. and…
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AutoMapper: What is the difference between PreserveReferences and MaxDepth?

I'm a little bit confused. I can't find out the difference between PreserveReferences and MaxDepth. Let's suppose we have the following DTOs and models. public class PersonEntity { public PersonEntity InnerPerson { get; set; } } public class…
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How to detect circular references in JavaScript

For example: $ node > var x = {} undefined > x.x = x { x: [Circular] } Wondering the sort of structures are they using to accomplish this, because it's not encoded directly into what I just did. It seems like they would do something like: var graph…
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Xamarin garbage collector and circular references

While reading Xamarin docs under section "Performance", I've noticed the following chapter: The following diagram illustrates a problem that can occur with strong references: Object A has a strong reference to object B, and object B has a strong…
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Circular Dependency among two Projects of Different Solution

Suppose there are two .net projects not under same solution. ProjectA is under solution1 and ProjectB is under solution2. ProjectA has a reference of ProjectB and ProjectB has reference of ProjectA. There are two classes ProjectA_Class and…
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How to find the circular structure in JSON.stringify: Uncaught TypeError: Converting circular structure to JSON?

When I get Uncaught TypeError: Converting circular structure to JSON on a large structure it can be very difficult to find out where exactly the circular reference is. Is there a simple way to find/debug the circular element in the data structure?
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Circular Reference error when serializing objects in ASP.NET Web API

I'm writing a Web API project in C# that uses Entity Framework to pull data from a DB, serialize it and send it to a client. My project has 2 classes, Post and Comment (foreign key from Post). These are my classes. Post class: public partial class…
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Self circular reference in Gson

I'm having some issues to deserialize a Json array that follows this format: [ { "ChildList":[ { "ChildList":[ ], "Id":110, "Name":"Books", "ApplicationCount":0 } ], "Id":110, …
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Why is Swift compiler complaining about circular reference when I comment out seemingly unrelated code?

Creating a brand new macOS Command Line Tool project in Xcode Version 13.3 (13E113), and replacing the contents of main.swift with the following code: import Foundation enum StructA { // case case1(value: StructB) case case2(expr:…
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Most efficient way of finding circular references in list

Given the following list of redirects [ { "old": "a", "target": "b" }, { "old": "b", "target": "c" }, { "old": "c", "target": "d" }, { "old": "d", "target":…
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Remove circular references in dicts, lists, tuples

I have this following really hack code which removes circular references from any kind of data structure built out of dict, tuple and list objects. import ast def remove_circular_refs(o): return ast.literal_eval(str(o).replace("{...}",…
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