__repr__ recursion

[sushart]

__repr__ recursion

[sydney-runkle]

@sushart,

Hmm, nice find. Definitely a bug. Seems relatively low stakes, so will leave this as a good first issue for anyone interested!

[eugenetriguba]

@sushart In this example, I'm curious what the output you're expecting is? The reason I ask is because the model has a cycle. The parent of gf_ref is set to the root object and so when gf_ref is attempted to be serialized, it attempts to serialize the root object again and then it attempts to serialize gf_ref again and so on.

@sydney-runkle Is an error here not the appropriate response? How were you thinking these cycles should be handled differently?

[sushart]

@eugenetriguba I would expect that I can chose which elements are involved in the compare process or if done automatically recursion is recognised and interrupted. Like repr=False compare=False wouldn't it be a nice and worthy feature?

[sydney-runkle]

@eugenetriguba,

Thanks for the questions - on second thought, I do think this is the expected behavior. Marking as resolved for now!