I am currently teaching myself Swift and Swiftui, to that end I am creating an app that is semi useful to me. I have created a peice of functionality that works within the simulator as well as on a physical device but seems to cause a crash in the preview.

I have created the following model:

@Model
final class Hosts{
    @Attribute(.unique)
    var ip: String?

    @Attribute(.unique)
    var api_url: URL

    var connected_too: Hosts? = nil

    @Relationship(inverse: \Hosts.connected_too)
    var connected_from: [Hosts] = []

    var host_description: String?
    var hostname: String

    init(api_url: URL, hostname: String, ip: String?, host_description: String?){
        self.api_url = api_url
        self.host_description = host_description
        self.hostname = hostname.lowercased()
        self.ip = ip
    }
}

I have a view that lists each instance of an object of this model type and I pass in the instance to a further view so that I can see the full details.

so the detail view is is like:

struct HostDetailView: View {
    public var host: Hosts
    .....
}

During processing of this view a method is called:

func get_connected_too(host: Hosts) -> [Hosts]{
    var current_host: Hosts = host
    var connected_hosts: [Hosts] = []
    while (current_host.connected_too != nil) {
        connected_hosts.append(current_host.connected_too!)
        current_host = current_host.connected_too!
    }
    return connected_hosts
}

this produces a list of connected too hosts or an empty list (so think device a is connected to switch b which is connected to router c). As I say this works perfectly on a defvice or on the simulator.

The issue is coming in when I try to create a preview. I have created the following:

struct HostDetailView_Previews: PreviewProvider {
    static var previews: some View {
        Group {
            HostDetailView(host: test_data())
                .previewDisplayName("Default mode")

            HostDetailView(host: test_data())
                .preferredColorScheme(.dark)
                .previewDisplayName("Dark mode")
        }
    }
}

func test_data() -> Hosts{
    let router: Hosts = Hosts(api_url: URL(string: "http://google.com")!, hostname: "router", ip: "1.2.3.4", host_description: "Main router")
    let host: Hosts = Hosts(api_url: URL(string: "http://yahoo.com")!, hostname: "router", ip: "2.3.4.5", host_description: "Main router")
    host.connected_too = router
    return host
}

Unfortunately this causes the preview to crash, the pertinent part of the crash report is:

5   HostDetailView.1.preview-thunk.dylib           0x14edb51b4 __preview__get_connected_too(host:) + 140 (HostDetailView.swift:73)
6   HostDetailView.1.preview-thunk.dylib           0x14edb57cc closure #1 in HostLinksStruct.__preview__body.getter + 372 (HostDetailView.swift:44)
7   HostDetailView.1.preview-thunk.dylib           0x14edb5968 partial apply for closure #1 in HostLinksStruct.__preview__body.getter + 16

If I remove the while clause in the get_connected_too function the preview will work, but if I either comment out the content of the while or only the while start and end block the preview wil crash.

I suspect the issue might be with how I am constructing or providing the test data. Can anyone identfy what I might be doing wrong.