Add static constructor

Author: sebastiaanluca

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Updates should follow the [Keep a CHANGELOG](http://keepachangelog.com/) princip
 ### Added
 
 - Added support for PHP 8
+- Added static constructor
 
 ### Changed
 

src/Item.php

@@ -15,12 +15,17 @@ public function __construct(mixed $value)
         }
     }
 
+    public static function from($value): self
+    {
+        return new self($value);
+    }
+
     public function __call(string $name, array $arguments): mixed
     {
         return $this->pipe($name, ...$arguments);
     }
 
-    public function pipe(callable|object|string $callback, mixed ...$arguments): Item|PipeProxy
+    public function pipe(callable|object|string $callback, mixed ...$arguments): self|PipeProxy
     {
         if (! is_callable($callback)) {
             return new PipeProxy($this, $callback);

tests/Unit/MethodsTest.php

@@ -4,9 +4,25 @@
 
 use Closure;
 use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
+use SebastiaanLuca\PipeOperator\Item;
 
 class MethodsTest extends TestCase
 {
+    /**
+     * @test
+     */
+    public function it can transform using the static constructor(): void
+    {
+        $result = Item::from('https://blog.github.com')
+            ->parse_url()
+            ->end()
+            ->explode('.', PIPED_VALUE)
+            ->reset()
+            ->get();
+
+        $this->assertSame('blog', $result);
+    }
+
     /**
      * @test
      */