Does JSONAPI support cyclic structures ?

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Hi,

I have the following models

type StudentProfileModel struct {
	Id        string        `bson:"_id,omitempty" jsonapi:"primary,studentprofiles"`
	StudentId bson.ObjectId `bson:"lead_id" jsonapi:"attr,student_id"`
	Student   *StudentModel `jsonapi:"relation,student"`
}

type StudentModel struct {
	ID             string               `bson:"_id,omitempty" jsonapi:"primary,students"`
	Email          string               `bson:"email" jsonapi:"attr,email"`
	Password       string               `bson:"password" jsonapi:"attr,password"`
	StudentProfile *StudentProfileModel `jsonapi:"relation,studentprofile"`
}

I face a problem when I am trying to fetch StudentProfile .

Here is the code

        studentProfileService := servicefactory.NewStudentProfileService()
	studentProfileModel := studentProfileService.GetStudentProfileById(studentProfileId)

	studentService := servicefactory.NewStudentService()
	studentModel := studentService.GetStudentById(studentProfileModel.StudentId.Hex())
   
        // Attaching student profile to studentModel 
	studentModel.StudentProfile = studentProfileModel

        // Attaching above fetched student model in student profile  
        studentProfileModel.Student = studentModel

	return studentProfileModel

  // Infinite loop here because of cyclic dependencies 
    jsonapi.MarshalPayload(buff, studentProfile)

How to resolve this issue ?

I have read an article on jsonapi.org where suggest we can fetch recursive data

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