Fix nested deserialization of documents

Co-Authored-By: Sebastian Mueller <[email protected]>

Author: Gerrit0

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ title: Changelog
 - Improved compatibility with CommonMark's link parsing, #2959.
 - Classes, variables, and functions exported with `export { type X }` are now detected and converted as interfaces/type aliases, #2962.
 - Improved warning messaging for links to symbols which were resolved, but the symbols were not included in the documentation, #2967.
+- Fixed an issue preventing nested documents from being deserialized from TypeDoc's JSON output or used in packages mode, #2969.
+
+### Thanks!
+
+- @yGuy
 
 ## v0.28.5 (2025-05-26)
 

src/lib/models/DocumentReflection.ts

@@ -79,6 +79,6 @@ export class DocumentReflection extends Reflection {
         this.content = Comment.deserializeDisplayParts(de, obj.content);
         this.frontmatter = obj.frontmatter;
         this.relevanceBoost = obj.relevanceBoost;
-        this.children = de.reviveMany(obj.children, (obj) => de.reflectionBuilders.document(this, obj));
+        this.children = de.reviveMany(obj.children, (obj) => de.constructReflection(obj));
     }
 }