🚀 Enhancement: Add Self-Relationship Support for Collections
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Description
### 🔖 Enhancement description
Currently, Appwrite does not support self-referencing relationships within a collection. This feature request is to allow a collection to have a field that references itself, enabling hierarchical or recursive data structures.
### 🎤 Pitch
Self-referencing relationships are essential for various use cases, such as:
- **Hierarchical Data:** Building structures like categories, threads, comments, or organizational hierarchies.
- **Tree-Like Relationships:** Enabling parent-child relationships within the same collection (e.g., a category having subcategories).
- **Graph-Based Models:** Creating complex interconnections within a dataset.
**Example Implementation:**
- Allow a document in a collection to reference another document within the same collection via a **"Self-Relationship"** field.
- Provide validation to prevent circular dependencies if needed.
- Enable querying/filtering based on these relationships to traverse hierarchical structures efficiently.
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