From 74bbdc193b97cf597c1104c892fbb30b7103b24e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrey Kunchev <donandren@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 18:21:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] actually compile cast in compiled binding

---
 .../XamlIlBindingPathHelper.cs                | 25 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Markup/Avalonia.Markup.Xaml.Loader/CompilerExtensions/XamlIlBindingPathHelper.cs b/src/Markup/Avalonia.Markup.Xaml.Loader/CompilerExtensions/XamlIlBindingPathHelper.cs
index 03ec32b9cf..414ecc760a 100644
--- a/src/Markup/Avalonia.Markup.Xaml.Loader/CompilerExtensions/XamlIlBindingPathHelper.cs
+++ b/src/Markup/Avalonia.Markup.Xaml.Loader/CompilerExtensions/XamlIlBindingPathHelper.cs
@@ -242,6 +242,16 @@ namespace Avalonia.Markup.Xaml.XamlIl.CompilerExtensions
                     case RawSourceBindingExpressionNode rawSource:
                         nodes.Add(new RawSourcePathElementNode(rawSource.RawSource));
                         break;
+                    case BindingExpressionGrammar.TypeCastNode typeCastNode:
+                        var castType = GetType(typeCastNode.Namespace, typeCastNode.TypeName);
+
+                        if (castType is null)
+                        {
+                            throw new XamlX.XamlParseException($"Unable to resolve cast to type {typeCastNode.Namespace}:{typeCastNode.TypeName} based on XAML tree.", lineInfo);
+                        }
+
+                        nodes.Add(new TypeCastPathElementNode(castType));
+                        break;
                 }
             }
 
@@ -625,6 +635,21 @@ namespace Avalonia.Markup.Xaml.XamlIl.CompilerExtensions
             }
         }
 
+        class TypeCastPathElementNode : IXamlIlBindingPathElementNode
+        {
+            public TypeCastPathElementNode(IXamlType ancestorType)
+            {
+                Type = ancestorType;
+            }
+
+            public IXamlType Type { get; }
+
+            public void Emit(XamlIlEmitContext context, IXamlILEmitter codeGen)
+            {
+                codeGen.EmitCall(context.GetAvaloniaTypes().CompiledBindingPathBuilder.FindMethod(m => m.Name == "TypeCast").MakeGenericMethod(new[] { Type }));
+            }
+        }
+
         class XamlIlBindingPathNode : XamlAstNode, IXamlIlBindingPathNode, IXamlAstEmitableNode<IXamlILEmitter, XamlILNodeEmitResult>
         {
             private readonly List<IXamlIlBindingPathElementNode> _transformElements;