Handle recursion

[shgysk8zer0]

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All other issues will be closed as invalid

• My issue is with the specification, not with the vocabulary or schemas
• My issue is not with any particular language or implementation

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Describe your issue

How can recursion be prevented? What can be done when data for a Person is requested, and that Person has a worksFor property, which lists the Person as an employee?

Do you have sample markup & data?

{
    "@type": "Person",
    "@context": "http://schema.org",
    "name": "John Smith",
    "worksFor": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "employee": [{
            "@type": "Person",
            "name" "John Smith"
        }, {}]
    }
}

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If you have any suggestions, please share:

This may be solved by only returning a URL for complex properties. If not, perhaps JSON-LD
identifies a means of referencing other objects without replicating them. I don't think this will be a
problem on servers in most programming languages, but it will be a problem when converted into
JSON.

[shgysk8zer0]

Using a URL will work, but is useless in cases where Organization data is requested for the response.