toString override not working

[johnnyggalt]

Describe the bug
Overriding toString does not work. I feel like I must be doing something incredibly stupid, but have boiled this down to simplest thing that should work, and it doesn't.

To Reproduce

import 'package:freezed_annotation/freezed_annotation.dart';

part 'repro.freezed.dart';

@freezed
class Repro with _$Repro {
  const factory Repro({required int foo}) = _Repro;

  @override
  String toString() => 'My custom toString';
}

void doRepro() {
  const repro = Repro(foo: 42);

  // "Instance of '_$ReproImpl'"
  final reproToString = repro.toString();
}

Expected behavior
My toString implementation should be invoked, not that of the _$ReproImpl type. Even the IDE agrees it should be invoking my implementation because go-to-definition jumps there, but nope.

This is using latest:

dependencies:
  freezed_annotation: ^2.4.4

dev_dependencies:
  build_runner: ^2.4.12
  freezed: ^2.5.7

[get6]

Do you try that this code?

@freezed
to
@Freezed(toStringOverride: false)

[johnnyggalt]

@get6 Yes, tried that (I should have mentioned in my issue). It does not make any difference.

[johnnyggalt]

I just circled back to this because I'm shipping to prod shortly, and I've identified a fix. This code does not work:

@freezed
class Repro with _$Repro {
  const factory Repro({required int foo}) = _Repro;

  @override
  String toString() => 'My custom toString';
}

This code does work:

@freezed
class Repro with _$Repro {
  Repro._();

  const factory Repro({required int foo}) = _Repro;

  @override
  String toString() => 'My custom toString';
}

So for some reason the private constructor is required.