From bda19a9ff3ae8e935562f8a5a95f5ba0ef585b84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ali Mohammad Pur <ali.mpfard@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2021 00:04:46 +0430
Subject: [PATCH] AK: Add explicit Variant conversion operators

This allows converting between Variants of different types with less
pain.
---
 AK/Variant.h | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/AK/Variant.h b/AK/Variant.h
index 83c884d3494..375e87413dd 100644
--- a/AK/Variant.h
+++ b/AK/Variant.h
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ public:
     }
 
     template<typename... NewTs>
-    Variant<NewTs...> downcast() &
+    Variant<NewTs...> downcast() const&
     {
         Variant<NewTs...> instance { Variant<NewTs...>::invalid_index, Detail::VariantConstructTag {} };
         visit([&](const auto& value) {
@@ -342,6 +342,18 @@ public:
         return instance;
     }
 
+    template<typename... NewTs>
+    explicit operator Variant<NewTs...>() &&
+    {
+        return downcast<NewTs...>();
+    }
+
+    template<typename... NewTs>
+    explicit operator Variant<NewTs...>() const&
+    {
+        return downcast<NewTs...>();
+    }
+
 private:
     static constexpr auto data_size = integer_sequence_generate_array<size_t>(0, IntegerSequence<size_t, sizeof(Ts)...>()).max();
     static constexpr auto data_alignment = integer_sequence_generate_array<size_t>(0, IntegerSequence<size_t, alignof(Ts)...>()).max();