checker: fix sumtype variant option type mismatch (#23659)

Author: felipensp

vlib/v/checker/checker.v

@@ -3402,8 +3402,7 @@ fn (mut c Checker) cast_expr(mut node ast.CastExpr) ast.Type {
 			node.expr_type = c.promote_num(node.expr_type, xx)
 			from_type = node.expr_type
 		}
-		if !c.table.sumtype_has_variant(to_type, from_type, false) && !to_type.has_flag(.option)
-			&& !to_type.has_flag(.result) {
+		if !c.table.sumtype_has_variant(to_type, from_type, false) {
 			ft := c.table.type_to_str(from_type)
 			tt := c.table.type_to_str(to_type)
 			c.error('cannot cast `${ft}` to `${tt}`', node.pos)

vlib/v/checker/tests/sumtype_variant_mismatch.out

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+vlib/v/checker/tests/sumtype_variant_mismatch.vv:4:7: error: cannot cast `?string` to `?Any`
+    2 | type Any2 = ?int | ?string
+    3 | 
+    4 | _ := ?Any(?string('baz'))
+      |       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+    5 | _ := ?Any(string('baz'))
+    6 | _ := ?Any('baz')
+vlib/v/checker/tests/sumtype_variant_mismatch.vv:9:7: error: cannot cast `string` to `?Any2`
+    7 | 
+    8 | _ := ?Any2(?string('baz'))
+    9 | _ := ?Any2(string('baz'))
+      |       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+   10 | _ := ?Any2('baz')
+vlib/v/checker/tests/sumtype_variant_mismatch.vv:10:7: error: cannot cast `string` to `?Any2`
+    8 | _ := ?Any2(?string('baz'))
+    9 | _ := ?Any2(string('baz'))
+   10 | _ := ?Any2('baz')
+      |       ~~~~~~~~~~~

vlib/v/checker/tests/sumtype_variant_mismatch.vv

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+type Any = ?int | string
+type Any2 = ?int | ?string
+
+_ := ?Any(?string('baz'))
+_ := ?Any(string('baz'))
+_ := ?Any('baz')
+
+_ := ?Any2(?string('baz'))
+_ := ?Any2(string('baz'))
+_ := ?Any2('baz')

vlib/x/json2/decoder.v

@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ fn decode_array_item[T](mut field T, arr []Any) {
 		typeof[[]time.Time]().idx { field = arr.map(it.to_time() or { time.Time{} }) }
 		typeof[[]?time.Time]().idx { field = arr.map(?time.Time(it.to_time() or { time.Time{} })) }
 		typeof[[]Any]().idx { field = arr.clone() }
-		typeof[[]?Any]().idx { field = arr.map(?Any(it)) }
+		typeof[[]?Any]().idx { field = arr.map(it) }
 		typeof[[]u8]().idx   { field = arr.map(it.u64()) }
 		typeof[[]?u8]().idx  { field = arr.map(?u8(it.u64())) }
 		typeof[[]u16]().idx  { field = arr.map(it.u64()) }