jq error when having too deep sway window tree

[quantenzitrone]

Because I use a script called autotiling on sway, I often end up with deep nested workspace layouts.

it has to be veeery deep for the error (it mostly doesn't get that far tho)

#1: root "root"
  #2147483647: output "__i3"
    #2147483646: workspace "__i3_scratch"
  #3: output "eDP-1"
    #4: workspace "0"
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                                                                                                                                                                            #2138: con "swaymsg -t get_tree  ~" (xdg_shell, pid: 2739535, app_id: "Alacritty")

(by the way it took sway 12 seconds to swaymsg split none that 😂)

While this is a bug in autotiling and not in done, it also has effects on done:

• the deeper the nesting the slower the startup performance of fish
• at a certain point (something near that what I pasted above) jq returns an error like this:

jq: parse error: Exceeds depth limit for parsing at line 3326, column 352

I'm opening this, because maybe someone will have the same problem and can't find an answer (like me for a while) and mayybe this can be mitigated somehow (but I really don't expect it to be).

So feel free to close.