Ensure integer type constructor reject every expression that isn't a …

…numeric literal

Related to #145

compiler/tests/compile_errors.rs

@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ use std::fs;
     case("return_addition_with_mixed_types.fe", "TypeError"),
     case("return_lt_mixed_types.fe", "TypeError"),
     case("indexed_event.fe", "MoreThanThreeIndexedParams"),
-    case("unary_minus_on_bool.fe", "TypeError")
+    case("unary_minus_on_bool.fe", "TypeError"),
+    case("type_constructor_from_variable.fe", "NumericLiteralExpected")
 )]
 fn test_compile_errors(fixture_file: &str, expected_error: &str) {
     let src = fs::read_to_string(format!("tests/fixtures/compile_errors/{}", fixture_file))

compiler/tests/fixtures/compile_errors/type_constructor_from_variable.fe

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+contract Foo:
+
+    pub def bar(val: u8) -> u16:
+        return u16(val)

newsfragments/163.feature.md

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+Ensure integer type constructor reject all expressions that aren't a numeric literal.
+For instance, previously the compiler would not reject the following code even though it could not be guaranteed that `val` would fit into an `u16`.
+
+```
+pub def bar(val: u8) -> u16:
+        return u16(val)
+```
+
+Now such code is rejected and integer type constructor do only work with numeric literals such as `1` or `-3`.

semantics/src/errors.rs

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ pub enum ErrorKind {
     TypeError,
     CannotMove,
     NotCallable,
+    NumericLiteralExpected,
     MoreThanThreeIndexedParams,
 }
 
@@ -99,6 +100,14 @@ impl SemanticError {
         }
     }
 
+    /// Create a new error with kind `NumericLiteralExpected`
+    pub fn numeric_literal_expected() -> Self {
+        SemanticError {
+            kind: ErrorKind::NumericLiteralExpected,
+            context: vec![],
+        }
+    }
+
     /// Create a new error with kind `MoreThanThreeIndexedParams`
     pub fn more_than_three_indexed_params() -> Self {
         SemanticError {

semantics/src/traversal/expressions.rs

@@ -352,6 +352,9 @@ fn expr_call(
                     return Err(SemanticError::type_error());
                 }
 
+                // Ensure something like u8(x) fails, only literals allowed e.g u8(1)
+                validate_is_numeric_literal(&args.node[0].node)?;
+
                 context
                     .borrow_mut()
                     .add_call(exp, CallType::TypeConstructor);
@@ -364,6 +367,21 @@ fn expr_call(
     unreachable!()
 }
 
+fn validate_is_numeric_literal(call_arg: &fe::CallArg) -> Result<(), SemanticError> {
+    let is_numeric_literal =
+        if let fe::CallArg::Arg(fe::Expr::UnaryOperation { operand, op: _ }) = call_arg {
+            matches!((*operand).node, fe::Expr::Num(_))
+        } else {
+            matches!(call_arg, fe::CallArg::Arg(fe::Expr::Num(_)))
+        };
+
+    if is_numeric_literal {
+        Ok(())
+    } else {
+        Err(SemanticError::numeric_literal_expected())
+    }
+}
+
 fn expr_call_self(
     scope: Shared<BlockScope>,
     _context: Shared<Context>,