FindElement.Refresh stuck in infinite loop when setting a child's events source to the parent's

[ejserna]

Describe the bug
If you set a control's events source to a parent's, the foreach loop in FindElement.Refresh() will get stuck in an infinite loop.

Steps to reproduce the bug
Try this code:
XAML:

<local:TestControl x:Name="CustomControl" AutomationProperties.Name="CustomControl">
                    <Button x:Name="Button1" Content="Button"/>
 </local:TestControl>

XAML.CS

namespace MUXControlsTestApp
{
    public sealed class TestControl : ContentControl
    {
        protected override AutomationPeer OnCreateAutomationPeer()
        {
            return new TestControlAutomationPeer(this);
        }
    }

    public sealed class TestControlAutomationPeer : FrameworkElementAutomationPeer
    {
        public TestControlAutomationPeer(TestControl owner) : base(owner){}
        protected override AutomationControlType GetAutomationControlTypeCore()
        {
            return AutomationControlType.Custom;
        }
    }

    [TopLevelTestPage(Name = "Expander")]
    public sealed partial class ExpanderPage : TestPage
    {
        public ExpanderPage()
        {
            this.InitializeComponent();
            var customControlPeer = FrameworkElementAutomationPeer.FromElement(CustomControl);
            var buttonPeer= FrameworkElementAutomationPeer.FromElement(Button1);

            buttonPeer.EventsSource = customControlPeer;
        }
    }
}

Expected behavior

Screenshots

Version Info

NuGet package version:

Windows app type:

UWP	Win32

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Additional context

[ranjeshj]

@ejserna Is this an issue with the test code in WinUI ?

[ejserna]

@ranjeshj yes, this is an issue in the test infrastructure, in FindElement.cs.

[marcelwgn]

I would like to look into this.

[marcelwgn]

It seems that this is not an issue with the test infra, but rather the underlying framework/library that provides us with the UIObject objects. In the scenario described by @ejserna , the list of descendants seems to be infinite, at some point it keeps containing the same element over and over again. So the only efficient solution I can think of is save the previous element and break the for loop if the previous element is equal to the current item, does that sound reasonable as a workaround?

[ejserna]

@chingucoding I think that's a good workaround, at least that's what @alexhinz and I thought would make sense.