Metalama 2024.2.20 released

[prochan2]

We have released Metalama 2024.2.20, based on 2024.2.19 and 2024.1.26 plus the following changes:

Improved

• Most interfaces derived from IDeclaration (e.g. IField, IMethod, ...) now have a strongly-typed IRef method.
• IRef<T> now has an As<TOut>() method to up-type the reference.
• ExpressionFactory enhancements: Null and Default methods.
• New method IAttributeCollection.GetConstructedAttributesOfType<T>(): T
• New extension methods ICompilation.GetDeclarationsWithAttribute()
• New extension methods IAspectReceiver<ICompilation>.SelectDeclarationsWithAttribute() and IValidatorReceiver<ICompilation>.SelectDeclarationsWithAttribute() for use in fabrics.
• New extension methods IAttribute.GetArgumentValue() and IAttribute.GetArgumentValue() to easily get arguments by name
• TypedConstant implements IEquatable<TypedConstant>.
• When a TypedConstant represents an array, the Value property now returns the "user" array, e.g. int[] or object[], instead of an ImmutableArray<TypedConstant>.
• Ease the severity of some errors in logs to warnings.

Breaking Changes

• The behavior ofTypedConstant.Value for arrays has changed. The RawValue property gives the original value.

Fixed

• Design-time: changing aspect configuration with assembly-level attribute does not seem to invalidate the cache.
• Exception popup: InvalidCastException in TemplatingCodeValidator on incomplete class.
• Design-time: generated file is not removed after original file is.
• Null reference exception at design-time for incomplete property.
• Design-time argument exception from code lens.
• Design-time: using transitive validators across multiple Metalama versions causes an exception.
• CodeLens reporting empty "-" results after changing the active configuration.
• Cannot write to a closed file in SourceTransformer.Execute.
• Design-time: Validators for constructors are ignored.
• Design-time: Transitive reference validators are not evaluated across Metalama versions.
• SerializableDeclarationId does not represent array types properly.
• Design-time: InvalidOperationException when accessing Count property of a default ImmutableArray.
• DesignTime: The old compilation is no longer alive.