feat: add TypeCastExpr class

.makim.yaml

@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
-version: 1.0
 groups:
   clean:
     tasks:
       tmp:
         help: remove build artifacts, compiled files, and cache
-        shell: bash
+        backend: bash
         run: |
           find . -name '*.egg-info' -exec rm -rf {} +
           find . -name '*.egg' -exec rm -f {} +
@@ -18,6 +17,8 @@ groups:
           rm -f .coverage
           rm -rf htmlcov/
           rm -rf .pytest_cache
+          rm -rf .ruff_cache
+          rm -rf .mypy_cache
 
   tests:
     tasks:
@@ -38,7 +39,7 @@ groups:
             help: Specify parameters to be used for tests
             type: string
             default: "-vv"
-        shell: bash
+        backend: bash
         run: |
           pytest \
             --cov=astx \
@@ -52,10 +53,11 @@ groups:
 
       ci:
         help: run the sames tests executed on CI
-        dependencies:
-          - task: tests.unit
-          - task: tests.notebooks
-          - task: tests.linter
+        hooks:
+          pre-run:
+            - task: tests.unit
+            - task: tests.notebooks
+            - task: tests.linter
 
   docs:
     tasks:

pyproject.toml

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ mkdocs-macros-plugin = ">=0.7.0,<1"
 mkdocs-material = ">=9.1.15"
 mkdocstrings = {version=">=0.24.3", extras=["python"]}
 jupyterlab = ">=4.0.5"
-makim = "1.18.1"
+makim = "1.19.0"
 umlizer = ">=0.1.0"
 nbmake = ">=1.4.6"
 mkdocs-gen-files = ">=0.5.0"

src/astx/__init__.py

@@ -113,6 +113,9 @@
     Program,
     Target,
 )
+from astx.types import (
+    TypeCastExpr,
+)
 from astx.variables import (
     InlineVariableDeclaration,
     Variable,
@@ -207,6 +210,7 @@ def get_version() -> str:
     "StatementType",
     "symbol_table",
     "Target",
+    "TypeCastExpr",
     "UnaryOp",
     "Undefined",
     "VariableAssignment",

src/astx/base.py

@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ class ASTKind(Enum):
     ImportFromExprKind = -801
 
     LambdaExprKind = -807
+    TypeCastExprKind = -809
 
 
 class ASTMeta(type):

src/astx/transpilers/python.py

@@ -184,6 +184,13 @@ def visit(self, node: astx.LambdaExpr) -> str:
         params_str = ", ".join(param.name for param in node.params)
         return f"lambda {params_str}: {self.visit(node.body)}"
 
+    @dispatch  # type: ignore[no-redef]
+    def visit(self, node: astx.TypeCastExpr) -> str:
+        """Handle TypeCastExpr nodes."""
+        return (
+            f"cast({self.visit(node.target_type.__class__)}, {node.expr.name})"
+        )
+
     @dispatch  # type: ignore[no-redef]
     def visit(self, node: astx.UnaryOp) -> str:
         """Handle UnaryOp nodes."""

src/astx/types.py

@@ -1,3 +1,53 @@
 """AST types module."""
 
 from __future__ import annotations
+
+from typing import Optional
+
+from public import public
+from typeguard import typechecked
+
+from astx.base import (
+    NO_SOURCE_LOCATION,
+    ASTKind,
+    ASTNodes,
+    DataType,
+    Expr,
+    ReprStruct,
+    SourceLocation,
+)
+
+
+@public
+@typechecked
+class TypeCastExpr(Expr):
+    """AST class for type casting expressions."""
+
+    expr: Expr
+    target_type: DataType
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        expr: Expr,
+        target_type: DataType,
+        loc: SourceLocation = NO_SOURCE_LOCATION,
+        parent: Optional[ASTNodes] = None,
+    ) -> None:
+        super().__init__(loc=loc, parent=parent)
+        self.expr = expr
+        self.target_type = target_type
+        self.kind = ASTKind.TypeCastExprKind
+
+    def __str__(self) -> str:
+        """Return a string representation of the TypeCast expression."""
+        return f"TypeCastExpr ({self.expr}, {self.target_type})"
+
+    def get_struct(self, simplified: bool = False) -> ReprStruct:
+        """Return the AST structure of the TypeCast expression."""
+        key = "TypeCastExpr"
+        value: ReprStruct = {
+            "expression": self.expr.get_struct(simplified),
+            "target_type": self.target_type.get_struct(simplified),
+        }
+
+        return self._prepare_struct(key, value, simplified)

tests/test_types.py

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+"""Tests for classes in types.py."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from astx.datatypes import Int32
+from astx.types import TypeCastExpr
+from astx.variables import Variable
+from astx.viz import visualize
+
+
+def test_typecastexpr() -> None:
+    """Test TypeCastExpr."""
+    # Expression to cast
+    expr = Variable(name="x")
+
+    # Target type for casting
+    target_type = Int32()
+
+    # Create the TypeCastExpr
+    cast_expr = TypeCastExpr(expr=expr, target_type=target_type)
+
+    assert str(cast_expr)
+    assert cast_expr.get_struct()
+    assert cast_expr.get_struct(simplified=True)
+
+    visualize(cast_expr.get_struct())

tests/transpilers/test_python.py

@@ -373,6 +373,25 @@ def test_literal_complex64() -> None:
     ), f"Expected '{expected_code}', but got '{generated_code}'"
 
 
+def test_transpiler_typecastexpr() -> None:
+    """Test astx.TypeCastExpr."""
+    # Expression to cast
+    expr = astx.Variable(name="x")
+    # Target type for casting
+    target_type = astx.Int32()
+    # Create the TypeCastExpr
+    cast_expr = astx.TypeCastExpr(expr=expr, target_type=target_type)
+
+    # Initialize the generator
+    generator = astx2py.ASTxPythonTranspiler()
+
+    generated_code = generator.visit(cast_expr)
+    expected_code = "cast(int, x)"
+
+    assert (
+        generated_code == expected_code
+    ), f"Expected '{expected_code}', but got '{generated_code}'"
+
 def test_transpiler_utf8_char() -> None:
     """Test astx.Utf8Char."""
     # Create a Utf8Char node