`@null` attribute value results in ambiguity

[jjonescz]

In a .razor component:

<div style="@null">x</div> <!-- error -->
<div style="@((string?)null)">x</div> <!-- ok -->

error CS0121: The call is ambiguous between the following methods or properties: 'RenderTreeBuilder.AddAttribute(int, string, string?)' and 'RenderTreeBuilder.AddAttribute(int, string, MulticastDelegate?)'

Note that passing null to an attribute is a supported scenario: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/mvc/views/razor?view=aspnetcore-7.0#conditional-attribute-rendering. Although perhaps it doesn't make much sense to pass a literal @null but rather via some variable.

It also works fine in .cshtml.

Related:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71415039/blazor-error-the-call-is-ambiguous-between-the-following-methods-or-properties
• https://github.com/dotnet/razor/issues/8731 (mentions the same error but it's otherwise unrelated to that issue)

I think compiler cannot do much here, we don't analyze the user-written C# code. At most we could offer an analyzer to fix this by casting.

[chsienki]

@jjonescz Does this still occur when using AddComponentParameter instead of AddAttribute?

[jjonescz]

@chsienki It's not possible to use AddComponentParameter, that's only for components, this is about normal HTML elements.

[chsienki]

@jjonescz Gotcha, thanks for the clarification.