Seeing lots of exception in collectionSelfLink - azure

Question

I'm seeing a lot of exceptions in the collectionSelfLink when making DocumentDb call -- see image below.
I'm able to connect to DocumentDb and read data but these exceptions concern me -- especially in something that's pretty straight forward like a collectionSelfLink.
Any idea what may be causing them and how to fix them?
Here's the function that's using the selfLink
public async Task<IEnumerable<T>> ReadQuery<T>(string dbName, string collectionId, SqlQuerySpec query)
{
// Prepare collection self link
// IMPORTANT: This is where I'm seeing those exceptions when I inspect the collectionLink. Otherwise, I'm NOT getting any errors.
var collectionLink = UriFactory.CreateDocumentCollectionUri(dbName, collectionId);
var result = _client.CreateDocumentQuery<T>(collectionLink, query, null);
_client.CreateDocumentQuery<T>(collectionLink);
return await result.QueryAsync();
}
And here's the QueryAsync() extension method
public async static Task<IEnumerable<T>> QueryAsync<T>(this IQueryable<T> query)
{
var docQuery = query.AsDocumentQuery();
var batches = new List<IEnumerable<T>>();
do
{
var batch = await docQuery.ExecuteNextAsync<T>();
batches.Add(batch);
}
while (docQuery.HasMoreResults);
var docs = batches.SelectMany(b => b);
return docs;
}

Answer 1

So SelfLink is an internal property that is set by DocumentDB. It cannot be set by the user and will only be populated on resources that have been returned from a call to the server.
The UriFactory code that you are using is construction a link that can be used to execute operations, but it is not a SelfLink.
If you are looking at a SelfLink property on a newly initialized DocumentCollection() object the SelfLink will be null as it has not been persisted on the server yet. This would explain all those errors in debug watch.