Using freezed in a package: do I need to commit my generated files?

[JesseRiemens]

I am using a flutter app (say foo), which uses a dependency (say bar, my own package), which uses freezed for some models.
Now when testing the dependency, all goes well. All files are generated nicely. I .gitignore the .freezed.dart files, and commit my source.

Now my app uses freezed as well, so I run code generation. This however does not seem to generate code for bar as well; I get warnings while generating:

[WARNING] build_resolvers:transitive_digests on package:bar/bar.dart:
Unable to read asset, could not compute transitive deps: bar|lib/src/bar.freezed.dart

This may cause less efficient builds, see the following doc for help:
https://github.com/dart-lang/build/blob/master/docs/faq.md#unable-to-read-asset-could-not-compute-transitive-deps

And when I flutter run my app, I get a lot of errors like this:

ERROR: ../../.pub-cache/git/bar-b71365448f1f99b40e1e1fabfa25ed4d21c6dcfe/lib/src/bar.dart:3:6: Error: Error when reading '../../.pub-cache/git/bar-b71365448f1f99b40e1e1fabfa25ed4d21c6dcfe/lib/src/bar.freezed.dart': No such file or directory
ERROR: part 'bar.freezed.dart';
ERROR:      ^

Which tells me it was not generated properly for the dependency.

Am I doing something wrong, or do I just have to commit my generated files?

I'm guessing it has something to do with this part in build.yaml in freezed package:

builders:
  freezed:
    import: "package:freezed/builder.dart"
    builder_factories: ["freezed"]
    build_extensions: { ".dart": [".freezed.dart"] }
    auto_apply: dependents
    build_to: source      # If this would say cache, would it perhaps work?
    runs_before: ["json_serializable|json_serializable"]

Any help is appreciated!

[rrousselGit]

You don't need to. That's up to you.

On the other hand, if you want to publish a package, the generated files need to be published too. As such:

• If you're using pub.dev to install your package, you need to publish those generated files.
• If you're using a path dependency, then it's fine if the files are gitignored as long as they are present.
• If you're using a git dependency, you'll have to commit those files got pub get to obtain them.

[JesseRiemens]

Thanks for the clarification, I should have specified I am using git and pub dependencies. I guess I'll have to check them in.

Is this common for all generators, or just for this one, since it generates the files to source instead of cache?

[rrousselGit]

You only need to check them in for git dependencies.
For pub dependencies, that's not necessary. But you may have to update your .pubignore

That's not specific to Freezed