[Rgen] Add needed factory methods to cast an enum to its primitive ty…

…pe. (#22062)

Case to the underlying type if it is not a smart enum, else use the
CastToNative method.

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Co-authored-by: Alex Soto <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: GitHub Actions Autoformatter <[email protected]>

src/rgen/Microsoft.Macios.Generator/Emitters/BindingSyntaxFactory.ObjCRuntime.cs

@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ static partial class BindingSyntaxFactory {
 	/// <summary>
 	/// Returns the expression needed to cast a parameter to its native type.
 	/// </summary>
-	/// <param name="parameter">The parameter whose castin we need to generate. The type info has to be
-	/// and enum and be marked as native. If it is not the method returns null</param>
-	/// <returns></returns>
+	/// <param name="parameter">The parameter whose casting we need to generate. The type info has to be
+	/// and enum and be marked as native. If it is not, the method returns null</param>
+	/// <returns>The cast C# expression.</returns>
 	internal static CastExpressionSyntax? CastToNative (in Parameter parameter)
 	{
 		// not an enum and not a native value. we cannot calculate the casting expression.
@@ -48,6 +48,35 @@ static partial class BindingSyntaxFactory {
 		return castExpression;
 	}
 
+	/// <summary>
+	/// Returns the expression needed to cast an enum parameter to its primitive type to be used in marshaling.
+	/// </summary>
+	/// <param name="parameter">The parameter for which we need to generate the casting. The type info has to be
+	/// an enumerator. If it is not, the method returns null.</param>
+	/// <returns>The cast C# expression.</returns>
+	internal static CastExpressionSyntax? CastToPrimitive (in Parameter parameter)
+	{
+		if (!parameter.Type.IsEnum) {
+			return null;
+		}
+
+		if (parameter.Type.IsNativeEnum) {
+			// return the native casting
+			return CastToNative (parameter);
+		}
+
+		// returns the enum primitive to be used
+		var marshalType = parameter.Type.ToMarshallType ();
+		if (marshalType is null)
+			return null;
+
+		// (byte) parameter
+		var castExpression = CastExpression (
+			type: IdentifierName (marshalType),
+			expression: IdentifierName (parameter.Name).WithLeadingTrivia (Space));
+		return castExpression;
+	}
+
 	/// <summary>
 	/// Returns the expression needed to cast a bool to a byte to be used in a native call. 
 	/// </summary>

tests/rgen/Microsoft.Macios.Generator.Tests/Emitters/BindingSyntaxFactoryObjCRuntimeTests.cs

@@ -63,6 +63,54 @@ void CastToNativeTests (Parameter parameter, string? expectedCast)
 		}
 	}
 
+	class TestDataCastToPrimitive : IEnumerable<object []> {
+		public IEnumerator<object []> GetEnumerator ()
+		{
+			// not enum parameter
+			var boolParam = new Parameter (
+				position: 0,
+				type: ReturnTypeForBool (),
+				name: "myParam");
+			yield return [boolParam, null!];
+
+			var enumParam = new Parameter (
+				position: 0,
+				type: ReturnTypeForEnum ("MyEnum", isNativeEnum: false),
+				name: "myParam");
+
+			yield return [enumParam, "(int) myParam"];
+
+			var byteParam = new Parameter (
+				position: 0,
+				type: ReturnTypeForEnum ("MyEnum", isNativeEnum: false, underlyingType: SpecialType.System_Byte),
+				name: "myParam");
+
+			yield return [byteParam, "(byte) myParam"];
+
+
+			var longParam = new Parameter (
+				position: 0,
+				type: ReturnTypeForEnum ("MyEnum", isNativeEnum: false, underlyingType: SpecialType.System_Int64),
+				name: "myParam");
+
+			yield return [longParam, "(long) myParam"];
+		}
+		IEnumerator IEnumerable.GetEnumerator () => GetEnumerator ();
+	}
+
+	[Theory]
+	[ClassData (typeof (TestDataCastToPrimitive))]
+	void CastToPrimitiveTests (Parameter parameter, string? expectedCast)
+	{
+		var expression = CastToPrimitive (parameter);
+		if (expectedCast is null) {
+			Assert.Null (expression);
+		} else {
+			Assert.NotNull (expression);
+			Assert.Equal (expectedCast, expression?.ToString ());
+		}
+	}
+
 	[Fact]
 	void CastToByteTests ()
 	{