From c1ec50db7b29f4c8dbe91176195df1fadf43aea8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brendan Chen <me@bchen.dev>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:39:37 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] add TupleKey method to convert string key back to tuple

---
 src/types/TupleKey.ts            |  5 +++++
 test/types/TupleKeyTests.test.ts | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/types/TupleKey.ts b/src/types/TupleKey.ts
index 08dcfb4..f95f4f0 100644
--- a/src/types/TupleKey.ts
+++ b/src/types/TupleKey.ts
@@ -16,4 +16,9 @@ export class TupleKey<T extends any[]> {
   valueOf(): string {
     return this.strKey;
   }
+
+  static fromExistingStringKey(strKey: string) {
+    const tuple = strKey.split(separator);
+    return new TupleKey(...tuple);
+  }
 }
diff --git a/test/types/TupleKeyTests.test.ts b/test/types/TupleKeyTests.test.ts
index ac260dd..b04c3ec 100644
--- a/test/types/TupleKeyTests.test.ts
+++ b/test/types/TupleKeyTests.test.ts
@@ -28,4 +28,18 @@ describe("TupleKey", () => {
     expect(sampleObject[tupleKey1.toString()]).toEqual("value1");
     expect(sampleObject[(new TupleKey("1", "2")).toString()]).toEqual("value1");
   });
-});
\ No newline at end of file
+
+  describe("fromExistingStringKey", () => {
+    it("creates a new TupleKey from an existing string key", () => {
+      const strKey = "hello|there";
+      const tupleKey = TupleKey.fromExistingStringKey(strKey);
+      expect(tupleKey.toString()).toEqual(strKey);
+    });
+
+    it("creates an empty tuple if there is no string", () => {
+      const strKey = "";
+      const tupleKey = TupleKey.fromExistingStringKey(strKey);
+      expect(tupleKey.toString()).toEqual(strKey);
+    })
+  })
+});