question: @ Deprecated private List < Object > nameValueMapToList ( Map . Entry < String , ? extends T > [ ] nameValuePairs ) { List < Object > result = new ArrayList < > ( ) ; for ( Map . Entry < String , ? > ent : nameValuePairs ) { result . add ( ent . getKey ( ) ) ; result . add ( ent . getValue ( ) ) ; } return result ; }
target:  Method to serialize Map.Entry&lt;String, ?&gt; to a List in which the even indexed elements (0,2,4. ..etc) are Strings and odd elements (1,3,5,) are of the type "T".