So basically you need By element from webElement. You can try this:
private By getByFromElement(WebElement element) {
By by = null;
String[] selectorWithValue= (element.toString().split("->")[1].replaceFirst("(?s)(.*)\\]", "$1" + "")).split(":");
String selector = selectorWithValue[0].trim();
String value = selectorWithValue[1].trim();
switch (selector) {
case "id":
by = By.id(value);
break;
case "className":
by = By.className(value);
break;
case "tagName":
by = By.tagName(value);
break;
case "xpath":
by = By.xpath(value);
break;
case "cssSelector":
by = By.cssSelector(value);
break;
case "linkText":
by = By.linkText(value);
break;
case "name":
by = By.name(value);
break;
case "partialLinkText":
by = By.partialLinkText(value);
break;
default: