hello this probably have been asked a million of times how do i efficiently transform a pair into a map.entry asking for a friend 😉

This sounds like an XY problem to me. It doesn't make any sense to turn them into a map entry if they aren't an entry in a map. Perhaps you need to rethink your flow...

the next step of my transform flow requires an entry

Right, that's seems like the problem. If the flow requires an entry, that assumes it's getting it's info from a map. You may need to rethink what that flow is doing, and possibly change it to use `Pair`s.

i’m using an external api, it requires an entry the pair i’m creating myself

Yeah, my bad. I was thinking

inner

🙂 it makes perfect sense.

🙂

Agreed. It bugs me when I come across APIs that require

Map.Entry

or similar. It usually means they were too lazy or shortsighted to think through their domain properly.