[Bug] Interface inheritance causing maximum recursion limit error about docfx

[TheBoxyBear]

Having a similar issue with a .NET 8 project although I'm having issues reproducing it.

The building enters this recursion loop until the limit is exceeded while applying template AppData\Local\Temp\docfx\viewmodel\api\toc.html.raw.json

object Render(BlockToken block, Context context)
void Write(StringRender renderer, SectionToken obj, Context context)
void Write(RendererBase<TContext> renderer, MustacheToken obj, TContext context)
void Write<T>(T obj, TContext context)

Important to note that I'm able to build locally using the docfx version bundled in the docfx.console version 2.59.4 NuGet package, which runs docfx build when building the solution. Running docfx build manually from a fresh install however leads to the resursion issue.

This is making it more difficult to deploy as I'm using Nuint/docfx-action 3.0.0 which encounters the same issue on the container. 3.0.0 is the minimum usable version as I'm using .NET 8.

[yufeih]

Seems like the problem can be fixed by renaming toc.html.tmpl file name to toc.html.primary.tmpl in custom templates.

[TheBoxyBear]

Seems like the problem can be fixed by renaming toc.html.tmpl file name to toc.html.primary.tmpl in custom templates.

This worked flawlessly, thanks.

[filzrev]

@yufeih
For the original issue.
It seems UniversalReference.html.primary cause the problem. It can't fixed by renaming toc.html.tmpl.

[rst4]

Actually I experience the same error. However, my custom template contains only toc.html.primary.tmpl and this produces the same error:

/Users/alexry/***/user-manual-v3/tutorials/toc.yml: error ApplyTemplateRendererError: Error applying template "toc.html.primary" to view model "/Users/alexry/***/user-manual-v3/_docfx_debug/viewmodel/tutorials/toc.html.raw.json" generated from "tutorials/toc.yml". You have reached the maximum recursion limit of 256.

docfx version is 2.73.0.

If I rename the file to toc.html.tmpl the build works but docfx seemingly doesn't include this template at all. Can you please advise?

Thank you.