Versioning versioning = new Versioning();
            versioning.setSnapshot(snapshot);
            versioning.setLastUpdatedTimestamp(timestamp);
            lastUpdated = versioning.getLastUpdated();

            metadata.setVersioning(versioning);
        } else {
            snapshot = metadata.getVersioning().getSnapshot();
            lastUpdated = metadata.getVersioning().getLastUpdated();
        }

    private static Metadata createMetadata(Artifact artifact) {
        Snapshot snapshot = new Snapshot();
        snapshot.setLocalCopy(true);
        Versioning versioning = new Versioning();
        versioning.setSnapshot(snapshot);

        Metadata metadata = new Metadata();
        metadata.setVersioning(versioning);
        metadata.setGroupId(artifact.getGroupId());
        metadata.setArtifactId(artifact.getArtifactId());

        return metadata;
    }

    protected static Versioning createVersioning(Snapshot snapshot) {
        Versioning versioning = new Versioning();
        versioning.setSnapshot(snapshot);
        return versioning;
    }

    public void setMetadata(Metadata metadata) {
        this.metadata = metadata;
    }

    public Metadata getMetadata() {
        return metadata;

        metadata.merge(new Metadata());

        String dateAfter = gregorianDate();

        String ts = metadata.metadata.getVersioning().getSnapshot().getTimestamp();
        String datePart = DATE_FILTER.matcher(ts).replaceAll("");

        /* Allow for this test running across midnight */
        Set<String> expected = new HashSet<>(Arrays.asList(dateBefore, dateAfter));

        if ((repoMetadata != null)
                && (repoMetadata.getVersioning() != null
                        && repoMetadata.getVersioning().getSnapshot() != null)) {
            buildNumber = repoMetadata.getVersioning().getSnapshot().getBuildNumber();
        }
        return buildNumber;
    }

    public static DateFormat getUtcDateFormatter() {

        repo.setLayout(profileXmlRepo.getLayout());
        repo.setName(profileXmlRepo.getName());
        repo.setUrl(profileXmlRepo.getUrl());

        if (profileXmlRepo.getSnapshots() != null) {
            repo.setSnapshots(convertRepositoryPolicy(profileXmlRepo.getSnapshots()));
        }
        if (profileXmlRepo.getReleases() != null) {
            repo.setReleases(convertRepositoryPolicy(profileXmlRepo.getReleases()));
        }

        repository.setId(RepositorySystem.DEFAULT_REMOTE_REPO_ID);
        repository.setUrl("file://" + repoDir.toURI().getPath());
        repository.setReleases(policy);
        repository.setSnapshots(policy);

        return Arrays.asList(repositorySystem.buildArtifactRepository(repository));
    }

    protected ArtifactRepository getLocalRepository() throws Exception {