Add Utils.unwrap

Author: ph-kev

src/Utils.jl

@@ -412,4 +412,11 @@ function sort_by_creation_time(files)
     return sort(files, by = x -> stat(x).ctime)
 end
 
+"""
+    unwrap(x::Val{N})
+
+Unwrap the value in `Val{N}` to get the value at runtime.
+"""
+unwrap(x::Val{N}) where {N} = N
+
 end

test/utils.jl

@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ import ClimaUtilities.Utils:
     bounding_dates,
     period_to_seconds_float,
     unique_periods,
-    sort_by_creation_time
+    sort_by_creation_time,
+    unwrap
 
 @testset "searchsortednearest" begin
     A = 10 * collect(range(1, 10))
@@ -170,4 +171,12 @@ end
         sorted_files = sort_by_creation_time(files)
         @test sorted_files == [files[2], files[3], files[1]]
     end
+
+@testset "unwrap" begin
+    x = Val(2)
+    y = Val(3)
+    @test unwrap(x) == 2
+    @test unwrap(y) == 3
+end
+
 end