public interface ProfileInjector {

    /**
     * Merges values from the specified profile into the given model. Implementations are expected to keep the profile
     * and model completely decoupled by injecting deep copies rather than the original objects from the profile.
     *
     * @param model The model into which to merge the values defined by the profile, must not be <code>null</code>.

     * configuration). This is useful when you want to force the user to use common POM elements rather than plugin
     * configurations, as in the case where you want to use the artifact's final name as a parameter. In this case, you
     * want the user to modify <code>&lt;build&gt;&lt;finalName/&gt;&lt;/build&gt;</code> rather than specifying a value

    pragmatic software license, and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field.
    We consider ourselves not simply a group of projects sharing a server, but rather a community of developers
    and users.
  </description>
  <licenses>
    <license>
      <name>The Apache Software License, Version 2.0</name>
      <url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt</url>

 * There should be no big surprises here, although you may notice that the methods accept
 * <code>java.lang.CharSequence</code> rather than <code>java.lang.String</code>. This is provided mainly as a
 * convenience, to enable developers to pass things like <code>java.lang.StringBuffer</code> directly into the logger,
 * rather than formatting first by calling <code>toString()</code>.
 *
 * @since 4.0.0
 */
@Experimental
@Provider

     * The returned list of versions is only dependent on the configured repositories and their contents.
     * The supplied request may also refer to a single concrete version rather than a version range.
     * In this case though, the result contains simply the (parsed) input version, regardless of the
     * repositories and their contents.
     *
     * @param session the session to use

    /**
     * Merges values from the specified parent model into the given child model. Implementations are expected to keep
     * parent and child completely decoupled by injecting deep copies of objects into the child rather than the original
     * objects from the parent.
     *
     * @param child The child model into which to merge the values inherited from the parent, must not be
     *            <code>null</code>.

     *
     * @param projectDirectory The base directory of the current project, may be {@code null} if profile activation
     *                         happens in the context of metadata retrieval rather than project building.
     * @return This context, never {@code null}.
     */
    public DefaultProfileActivationContext setProjectDirectory(Path projectDirectory) {
        this.projectDirectory = projectDirectory;