Activate a path?

Ok, I have a shape layer and I want to activate it’s path to show it’s points like when selected with the path selection tool or when a path is created.

I can’t for the life of me figure out a way to do that in uxp. Anyone have any ideas?
The only way I have been able to do it is to convert it to a selection and then create a path from the selection, and then create a shape layer from that path. That shows the shape with the path selected and points visible, but that creates a path that is different (worse) than the original one.