From 8930e72cc390c9920b1a8dc4a06a1cec87948bbc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sam Cornwell <14048146+samcornwell@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 22:11:44 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] added get_type_from_id function to utils

---
 stix2/utils.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/stix2/utils.py b/stix2/utils.py
index f23dbe2..960b89e 100644
--- a/stix2/utils.py
+++ b/stix2/utils.py
@@ -255,3 +255,6 @@ def get_class_hierarchy_names(obj):
     for cls in obj.__class__.__mro__:
         names.append(cls.__name__)
     return names
+
+def get_type_from_id(stix_id):
+    return stix_id.split('--', 1)[0]