Fix for the optimizer when an entity has a collection property that references itself. #27397
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Fixes #27301
Port of #27350
Description
The code that ensures all the needed namespaces have been added recurses into generic collections, but didn't have a check for types that implent a collection of themselves.
Customer impact
Using
dotnet ef dbcontext optimize
will hang without any error messages for affected models.How found
Reported by a customer on 6.0
Regression
No. Compiled models is a new feature in 6.0
Testing
Added a test for the affected scenario.
Risk
Low. The fix is very straightforward and localized. Also, only design-time tooling is affected.