Infinite loop

[zhex900]

Describe the Bug

I accidentally created an infinite loop in the flow. Now the project is crashed.

Flow should have some kind of protection against this.

To Reproduce

1. Trigger: update item (post)
2. Log it
3. Update item (post)

Step 3 will trigger step 1. Now it never stops.

Errors Shown

No response

What version of Directus are you using?

v9.12.2 latest

What version of Node.js are you using?

Paas

What database are you using?

Paas

What browser are you using?

firebox

How are you deploying Directus?

Paas

[br41nslug]

This should be prevented by default with this PR #13121 but seems it is not released yet.

[nervusdm]

Waiting for it. I just had this same problem.

[br41nslug]

It should be available already @nervusdm

[nervusdm]

All right, thanks.

[tatthien]

Hi @br41nslug
I believe there's still an infinite loop bug here. When you uncheck Enabled (or leave it unchecked by default), the option emitEvents is undefined. It's not false.
The following code check if emitEvents !== false then run the emit event. undefined !== false => true and the event is still emitted.

[azrikahar]

This was recently fixed in #14741 and will be included in the next release 👍

[tatthien]

Great! Thanks

[rijkvanzanten]

There's currently a way to manually prevent this through the Emit Events option in the flow trigger.