How to stop self-referencing loop in .Net Core Web API?

Question

I\'m having some issues which I\'m guessing are related to self-referencing using .NET Core Web API and Entity Framework Core. My Web API starting choking when I added .Inc

Answer 1

Okay... I finally found some reference material on this. The solution is:

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    ...

    services.AddMvc()
        .AddJsonOptions(
            options => options.SerializerSettings.ReferenceLoopHandling = Newtonsoft.Json.ReferenceLoopHandling.Ignore
        );

    ...
}

I got this from here