From bea00f2196f42d5567cd1ee0087a2cb9b449347b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael de Gans <michael.john.degans@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:45:49 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] add `Tool::parse` to convert from a `Serialize`able T to a
 `Tool` (#7)

* add `Tool::from_serializable` to convert from a `Serialize`able T to a `Tool`
---
 Cargo.toml  |  2 +-
 src/tool.rs | 14 ++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 31c7187..69ace02 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "misanthropic"
-version = "0.3.2"
+version = "0.3.3"
 edition = "2021"
 authors = ["Michael de Gans <michael.john.degans@gmail.com>"]
 description = "An async, ergonomic, client for Anthropic's Messages API"
diff --git a/src/tool.rs b/src/tool.rs
index 001095c..5d99451 100644
--- a/src/tool.rs
+++ b/src/tool.rs
@@ -255,6 +255,20 @@ impl<'a> Tool<'a> {
     pub fn is_cached(&self) -> bool {
         self.cache_control.is_some()
     }
+
+    /// Try to convert from a serializable value to a [`Tool`].
+    // A blanket impl for TryFrom<T> where T: Serialize would be nice but it
+    // would conflict with the blanket impl for TryFrom<Value> where Value:
+    // Serialize. This is a bit of a hack but it works.
+    pub fn from_serializable<T>(
+        value: T,
+    ) -> std::result::Result<Self, serde_json::Error>
+    where
+        T: Serialize,
+    {
+        let value = serde_json::to_value(value)?;
+        value.try_into()
+    }
 }
 
 impl TryFrom<serde_json::Value> for Tool<'_> {