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Question

What is wrong with this code? I keep getting a StackOverlflowException..

public class Places
{
    public string Title { get; set; }
    public string Content { get; set; }
    public double Latitude { get; set; }
    public double Longtitude { get; set; }    


    public List<Places> allPlaces = new List<Places>
    {
        new Places { Title = "test", Content = "test\ntest", Latitude = 52.23057, Longtitude = 5.84582 },
        new Places { Title = "testt", Content = "dfsdf", Longtitude = 52.35589, Latitude = 4.92119 }
    };
}

Answer 1

Since allPlaces is an instance field, it is initialized during construction of a Places object. So you create a Places object, which creates a List<Places>, which creates another Places object in its collection initializer, which creates another List<Places> of its own... a never ending recursion.

You probably wanted to create a static allPlaces field, which would create only one list. Add the static keyword to the field as follows:

public static List<Places> allPlaces = ...