fromWire static method

KeyEntryStatus fromWire(Object? value)

Reads a wire status. Absent is active; anything else is the token itself, verbatim.

Verbatim is the half of the forward-compatibility promise that tolerance would be worthless without: a reader that reshapes a value it does not understand has no way to be right about the reshaping, and whatever it produces is what a writer then emits.

Today no caller reads an _apsk record and republishes its entries — every _apsk writer composes from local key material — so for that record this is a property of the reader/writer pair rather than of a live path. It is a live path for the key package, which is rebuilt from the keyfile on every reconcile.

A status that is not a string at all is malformed rather than unknown, and it is stringified rather than repaired. That keeps it out of both active and retired — which is the answer that uses the key for nothing — and keeps what was actually written visible in a log.

Implementation

static KeyEntryStatus fromWire(Object? value) =>
    value == null ? active : KeyEntryStatus._('$value');