Stack overflow exception in C# setter

Question

This works:

using System;
using ConstraintSet = System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary;

namespace ConsoleApplication2
{
    class         


        

Answer 1

You haven't declared a backing variable - you've just got a property whose getters and setters call themselves. It's not clear to me why the first form isn't supported by Unity - which means it's possible that the equivalent won't be supported either, but it's basically this:

private ConstraintSet aValue;
public ConstraintSet a { get { return aValue; } set { aValue = value; } }

I'd normally have a more conventional name, of course - which means you can get away without the "value` bit:

private ConstraintSet constraints;
public ConstraintSet Constraints
{
    get { return constraints; } 
    set { constraints = value; }
}

To give a bit more detail as to why your current second form is throwing a StackOverflowException, you should always remember that properties are basically methods in disguise. Your broken code looks like this:

public ConstraintSet get_a()
{
    return get_a();
}

public void set_a(ConstraintSet value)
{
    set_a(value);
}

Hopefully it's obvious why that version is blowing the stack. The amended version just sets a variable instead of calling the property again, so it looks like this when expanded:

private ConstraintSet aValue;

public ConstraintSet get_a()
{
    return aValue;
}

public void set_a(ConstraintSet value)
{
    aValue = value;
}