It’s probably easier to explain how to generate a circular dependency error:
- create a plugin element with a filed of type text, let’s call it “textinput”
- add a state of type text, let’s call it “textoutput”
- let’s initialize “textoutput”
- now in the app editor let’s assign a value to “textinput” that reference the element state
- go to preview and watch your error
It looks complicated but it’s the equivalent of this javascript code
it’s just made in 2 steps between the plugin code and the editor
You are literally telling bubble to inizialite the state “textoutput” with the value of the state “textoutput”.
A solution is to initialize the state in the initialize function where you don’t have the properties and you can only initialize the state to a static value. Then publish the state value in the update function.
I hope it’s more clear now
Cheers
Mariano