question: public static List < AlertDto > transformToDto ( List < Alert > alerts ) { if ( alerts == null ) { throw new WebApplicationException ( "Null entity object cannot be converted to Dto object." , Status . INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR ) ; } List < AlertDto > result = new ArrayList < AlertDto > ( ) ; for ( Alert alert : alerts ) { result . add ( transformToDto ( alert ) ) ; } return result ; }
target:  Converts list of alert entity objects to list of alertDto objects.