Circular reference detected for service "plugin.manager.eca.action", path: "plugin.manager.eca.action -> eca.service.action".

I was able to get the error to reoccur when manually enabling additional modules. This time I got a full call stack

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Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Exception\ServiceCircularReferenceException: Circular reference detected for service "plugin.manager.eca.action", path: "plugin.manager.eca.action -> eca.service.action". in Drupal\Component\DependencyInjection\Container->get() (line 147 of core/lib/Drupal/Component/DependencyInjection/Container.php).
Drupal\Component\DependencyInjection\Container->resolveServicesAndParameters() (Line: 237)
Drupal\Component\DependencyInjection\Container->createService() (Line: 177)
Drupal\Component\DependencyInjection\Container->get() (Line: 72)
Drupal\eca_ui\Plugin\modeler_api_model_owner\Eca::create() (Line: 21)
Drupal\Core\Plugin\Factory\ContainerFactory->createInstance() (Line: 85)
Drupal\Component\Plugin\PluginManagerBase->createInstance() (Line: 30)
modeler_api_entity_type_build() (Line: 118)
Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityTypeManager->Drupal\Core\Entity\{closure}() (Line: 315)
Drupal\Core\Extension\ModuleHandler->invokeAllWith() (Line: 117)
Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityTypeManager->findDefinitions() (Line: 213)
Drupal\Core\Plugin\DefaultPluginManager->getDefinitions() (Line: 25)
Drupal\Core\Plugin\DefaultPluginManager->getDefinition() (Line: 132)
Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityTypeManager->getDefinition() (Line: 100)
Drupal\eca\PluginManager\Action->setCacheBackend() (Line: 38)
Drupal\Core\Action\ActionManager->__construct() (Line: 259)
Drupal\Component\DependencyInjection\Container->createService() (Line: 177)
Drupal\Component\DependencyInjection\Container->get() (Line: 430)
Drupal\Component\DependencyInjection\Container->resolveServicesAndParameters() (Line: 463)
Drupal\Component\DependencyInjection\Container->Drupal\Component\DependencyInjection\{closure}() (Line: 55)
Drupal\Core\Plugin\CachedDiscoveryClearer->clearCachedDefinitions() (Line: 353)
Drupal\Core\Extension\ModuleInstaller->doInstall() (Line: 229)
Drupal\Core\Extension\ModuleInstaller->install() (Line: 83)
Drupal\Core\ProxyClass\Extension\ModuleInstaller->install() (Line: 175)
Drupal\system\Form\ModulesListConfirmForm->submitForm()
call_user_func_array() (Line: 105)
Drupal\Core\Form\FormSubmitter->executeSubmitHandlers() (Line: 43)
Drupal\Core\Form\FormSubmitter->doSubmitForm() (Line: 589)
Drupal\Core\Form\FormBuilder->processForm() (Line: 321)
Drupal\Core\Form\FormBuilder->buildForm() (Line: 73)
Drupal\Core\Controller\FormController->getContentResult()
call_user_func_array() (Line: 123)
Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\EarlyRenderingControllerWrapperSubscriber->Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\{closure}() (Line: 600)
Drupal\Core\Render\Renderer->executeInRenderContext() (Line: 121)
Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\EarlyRenderingControllerWrapperSubscriber->wrapControllerExecutionInRenderContext() (Line: 97)
Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\EarlyRenderingControllerWrapperSubscriber->Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\{closure}() (Line: 183)
Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\HttpKernel->handleRaw() (Line: 76)
Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\HttpKernel->handle() (Line: 53)
Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\Session->handle() (Line: 48)
Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\KernelPreHandle->handle() (Line: 28)
Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\ContentLength->handle() (Line: 32)
Drupal\big_pipe\StackMiddleware\ContentLength->handle() (Line: 116)
Drupal\page_cache\StackMiddleware\PageCache->pass() (Line: 90)
Drupal\page_cache\StackMiddleware\PageCache->handle() (Line: 48)
Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\ReverseProxyMiddleware->handle() (Line: 51)
Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\NegotiationMiddleware->handle() (Line: 53)
Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\AjaxPageState->handle() (Line: 51)
Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\StackedHttpKernel->handle() (Line: 715)
Drupal\Core\DrupalKernel->handle() (Line: 19)

A bit of issue queue sluething has uncovered that this is a recurring problem for some modules. The solution is to change the approach to lazy loading dependencies not through constructor injection but in getter injection. A practical example of this can be found in: https://www.drupal.org/project/filelog/issues/3416342 🐛 Circular reference detected for service Fixed

I was able to determine that his bug actually belongs to the eca module. Specifically the eca_ui module.

cosmicdreams → changed the visibility of the branch 3517626--circular-reference to hidden.

Made some changes in the MR and also afterwards fixed the PHPDoc comments.

As a folllow-up, I also created an issue in modeler_api: 📌 Optimize plugin managers Active