}

	return loadBucketMetadata(ctx, objAPI, bucket)
}

var errBucketMetadataNotInitialized = errors.New("bucket metadata not initialized yet")

// GetConfig returns a specific configuration from the bucket metadata.
// The returned object may not be modified.
// reloaded will be true if metadata refreshed from disk

	start := int(keyCrc % uint32(cardinality))
	for i := 1; i <= cardinality; i++ {
		nums[i-1] = 1 + ((start + i) % cardinality)
	}
	return nums
}

// Reads all `xl.meta` metadata as a FileInfo slice.
// Returns error slice indicating the failed metadata reads.
func readAllFileInfo(ctx context.Context, disks []StorageAPI, origbucket string, bucket, object, versionID string, readData, healing bool) ([]FileInfo, []error) {

  xml.namespace="http://maven.apache.org/METADATA/${version}"
  xml.schemaLocation="https://maven.apache.org/xsd/repository-metadata-${version}.xsd">
  <id>repository-metadata</id>
  <name>Metadata</name>
  <description><![CDATA[
    <p>Per-directory repository metadata <code>repository-metadata.xml</code>.</p>

	if b.Created.IsZero() {
		b.Created = UTCNow()
	}
	if !createdAt.IsZero() {
		b.Created = createdAt.UTC()
	}
}

// Load - loads the metadata of bucket by name from ObjectLayer api.
// If an error is returned the returned metadata will be default initialized.
func readBucketMetadata(ctx context.Context, api ObjectLayer, name string) (BucketMetadata, error) {
	if name == "" {

		return false
	}
	return true
}

// MetadataEquals returns true if FileInfos Metadata maps are equal, false otherwise.
func (fi FileInfo) MetadataEquals(ofi FileInfo) bool {
	if len(fi.Metadata) != len(ofi.Metadata) {
		return false
	}
	for k, v := range fi.Metadata {
		if ov, ok := ofi.Metadata[k]; !ok || ov != v {
			return false
		}
	}
	return true
}

)

var isMultipartTests = []struct {
	Metadata  map[string]string
	Multipart bool
}{
	{Multipart: true, Metadata: map[string]string{MetaMultipart: ""}},                          // 0
	{Multipart: true, Metadata: map[string]string{"X-Minio-Internal-Encrypted-Multipart": ""}}, // 1
	{Multipart: true, Metadata: map[string]string{MetaMultipart: "some-value"}},                // 2

    static class ArtifactMetadataAdapter implements ArtifactMetadata {

        private final Metadata metadata;

        ArtifactMetadataAdapter(Metadata metadata) {
            this.metadata = metadata;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean storedInArtifactVersionDirectory() {
            return !metadata.getVersion().isEmpty();
        }

        @Override

        // snapshot timestamp, or some other timestamp later encoded into the metadata.
        // 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;

### Internal metadata for replication

`xl.meta` that is in use for [versioning](https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/docs/bucket/versioning/DESIGN.md) has additional metadata for replication of objects,delete markers and versioned deletes.

    }

    private static Metadata createMetadataFromArtifact(Artifact artifact) {
        Metadata metadata = new Metadata();
        metadata.setArtifactId(artifact.getArtifactId());
        metadata.setGroupId(artifact.getGroupId());
        metadata.setVersion(artifact.getVersion());
        metadata.setVersioning(new Versioning());
        return metadata;
    }