Analysis server sometimes fails to resolve flutter_gen package after running "pub get"

Describe the bug Almost every hour there’s a situation when after getting packages or updating the .arb files the analyzer hangs for a second and then looses information about the Flutter-generated localization files.

This is partially related to #3270 as sometimes this issue occurs after Flutter extension tries to format the file. In this particular case however, it occurred after adding new package.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Open project and add new package in pubspec.yaml
   • it may be significant that the package is a local flutter package stored in ./packages/package_name subdirectory
2. Run Pub: Get packages in command palette
3. Try to reference the new package somewhere in the widget tree
4. Notice it doesn’t get imported
5. Run Pub: Get packages again
6. Analyzer restarts and after that it looses information about AppLocalizations, running Pub: Get packages doesn’t help and only way out of that is either restarting analyzer or VS Code entirely

I was able to reproduce it in my project just by removing package from pubspec.yaml, calling Pub Get Packages several times, and then adding the package again.

Expected behavior The package should be available immediately after getting packages for the first time. The AppLocalizations should not be lost, as they are still present in the .dart-tool directory.

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Versions (please complete the following information):

[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 2.2.2, on macOS 11.4 20F71 darwin-x64, locale pl-PL)
    • Flutter version 2.2.2 at /Users/dominik/fvm/versions/stable
    • Framework revision d79295af24 (3 weeks ago), 2021-06-11 08:56:01 -0700
    • Engine revision 91c9fc8fe0
    • Dart version 2.13.3

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    • Android SDK at /Users/dominik/Library/Android/sdk
    • Platform android-30, build-tools 30.0.3
    • ANDROID_HOME = /Users/dominik/Library/Android/sdk
    • Java binary at: /Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/jre/jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java
    • Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.8+10-b944.6916264)
    • All Android licenses accepted.

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    • Xcode at /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
    • Xcode 12.5.1, Build version 12E507
    • CocoaPods version 1.10.1

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    • Chrome at /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome

[✓] Android Studio (version 4.2)
    • Android Studio at /Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents
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      🔨 https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/6351-dart
    • Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.8+10-b944.6916264)

[✓] VS Code (version 1.57.1)
    • VS Code at /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents
    • Flutter extension version 3.23.0

[✓] Connected device (3 available)
    • SM T500 (mobile) • R9TR105TMWJ • android-arm64  • Android 11 (API 30)
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    • Chrome (web)     • chrome      • web-javascript • Google Chrome 91.0.4472.114

• No issues found!

[felix-ht]

A hack that works for me - i pinned .dart_tool/package_config.json in vscode. Whenever the error happens i just save the file and the errors disappear. No need to reload the windows any longer.

Would still be nice if a proper fix would land soon.

[orestesgaolin]

Just wanted to update that after recent update of VS Code extension v3.26.0 and bumping Flutter to 2.5.0-5.2.pre it still happens the same way as before 😕