How to convert map keys from strings to atoms in Elixir

Question

What is the way to convert %{\"foo\" => \"bar\"} to %{foo: \"bar\"} in Elixir?

Answer 1

To build on @emaillenin's answer, you can check to see if the keys are already atoms, to avoid the ArgumentError that is raised by String.to_atom when it gets a key that is already an atom.

for {key, val} <- string_key_map, into: %{} do
  cond do
    is_atom(key) -> {key, val}
    true -> {String.to_atom(key), val}
  end
end