Le 22/03/2021 à 20:17, bobtins a écrit :
TL;DR: The Java implementation doesn't have generated flatbuffers code under source control, and the code generation depends on an unofficially-maintained Maven artifact. Other language implementations do check in the generated code; would it make sense for this to be done for Java as well? I'm currently focusing on Java development; I started building on Windows and got a failure under java/format, because I couldn't download the flatbuffers compiler (flatc) to generate Java source. The artifact for the flatc binary is provided "unofficially" (not by the flatbuffers project), and there was no Windows version, so I had to jump through hoops to build it and proceed.
While this does not answer the more general question of checking in the generated Flatbuffers code (which sounds like a good idea, but I'm not a Java developer), note that you could workaround this by installing the Conda-provided flatbuffers package:
$ conda install flatbuffers which should get you the `flatc` compiler, even on Windows. (see https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/ for installing conda) You may also try other package managers such as Chocolatey: https://chocolatey.org/packages/flatc Regards Antoine.
