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Workspace webMethods Integration SaaS
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Created on Mar 17, 2025

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Flow services should allow recursion

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Use case: I need to iterate over a tree of documents returned by the SAP Signavio API (directory entry).

I tried to write a flow service Process_Signavio_Directory_Entry processing one entry and then iterating over child entries, calling itself for each child entry. When I try to save the flow service, webMethods.io Integration says: “Process_Signavio_Directory_Entry is circularly referenced with itself” and won’t let me save the flow service.
Even when I try calling myself in a transformer (which will create its own pipeline, right?), I am getting the same error message?

Even when I write fs_1 calling fs_2 calling fs_1, I am getting an error message "fs_1, fs_2 are circularly referenced."

It would greatly enhance developer productivity in use cases like this if recursion would be allowed for flow services.

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