[OpenAPI] NullReferenceException with route parameters provided by inherited controller

[anarian]

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Describe the bug

Controllers can provide route parameters through the RouteAttribute. Actions in controllers that inherit from that base controller may optionally use that route parameter. OpenAPI document generation fails with a NullReferenceException trying to access the ModelMetadata from the ParameterDescriptions.

This issue is also reproducible if a route parameter is specified in the controller's RouteAttribute, it does not need to be from an inherited controller.

Expected Behavior

I'm not sure what the expected behaviour is for OpenAPI, but the document generation should not be failing with an exception.

Steps To Reproduce

https://github.com/anarian/dotnet-openapi-nullbug

1. Debug the application
2. Exception will be thrown immediately

Exceptions (if any)

System.NullReferenceException
  HResult=0x80004003
  Message=Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
  Source=WebApplication1
  StackTrace:
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.OpenApi.Generated.<OpenApiXmlCommentSupport_generated>F340FEECD1E82BE934851862FC854B212C14780C957B4A4FC4BB1EED9CE15554D__XmlCommentOperationTransformer.TransformAsync(OpenApiOperation operation, OpenApiOperationTransformerContext context, CancellationToken cancellationToken) in D:\source\WebApplication1\WebApplication1\obj\Debug\net10.0\Microsoft.AspNetCore.OpenApi.SourceGenerators\Microsoft.AspNetCore.OpenApi.SourceGenerators.XmlCommentGenerator\OpenApiXmlCommentSupport.generated.cs:line 428

.NET Version

10.0.100-rc.2.25502.107

Anything else?

We're currently using a pattern where we have multiple user types that have a specific ID in the route. Each user type has an abstract controller that provides initial validation for the user's access before the controller action is called. The inherited controllers all implement the same interface which is how ensure the same actions for the different user types at compile-time for the controllers. I considered adding the route parameters to the actions even if they aren't used, but because the user ID argument names have different names and maybe different types, I was unable to work around this issue.

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