}
        descriptors = Collections.emptyMap();
        isModuleHierarchy = false;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the module name declared in the given {@code module-info} descriptor.
     * The input stream may be for a file or for an entry in a JAR file.
     */
    @Nonnull
    private static String getModuleName(InputStream in) throws IOException {
        return ModuleDescriptor.read(in).name();
    }

        this.protocol = protocol(url);
        this.basedir = basedir(url);
    }

    // Path Utils

    /**
     * Return the protocol name.
     * <br>
     * E.g: for input
     * <code>http://www.codehaus.org</code> this method will return <code>http</code>
     *
     * @param url the url
     * @return the host name
     */
    private static String protocol(final String url) {

     * 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 artifact the artifact for which to resolve the versions
     * @return a list of resolved {@code Version}s.

    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    // TODO These two tests display a lack of symmetry with respect to the input which is a free form string and the
    //      mojo descriptor which comes back. All the free form parsing needs to be done somewhere else, this is

        }
        descriptors = Collections.emptyMap();
        isModuleHierarchy = false;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the module name declared in the given {@code module-info} descriptor.
     * The input stream may be for a file or for an entry in a JAR file.
     */
    @Nonnull
    private static String getModuleName(InputStream in) throws IOException {
        return ModuleDescriptor.read(in).name();
    }

        // TODO this needs to be repeated here so the merging doesn't interfere with the written metadata
        //  - we'd be much better having a pristine input, and an ongoing metadata for merging instead

        Map<ArtifactRepository, Metadata> previousMetadata = new HashMap<>();
        ArtifactRepository selected = null;