}

        /**
         * Sets the direct dependencies. If both a root dependency and direct dependencies are given in the request, the
         * direct dependencies from the request will be merged with the direct dependencies from the root dependency's
         * artifact descriptor, giving higher priority to the dependencies from the request.
         *
         * @param dependencies the direct dependencies, may be {@code null}

     */
    @Nonnull
    Optional<String> option();

    /**
     * Returns the option followed by a string representation of the given path elements.
     * The path elements are separated by an option-specific or platform-specific separator.
     * If the given {@code paths} argument contains no element, then this method returns an empty string.
     *
     * <h4>Examples</h4>

        write(XmlWriterRequest.<T>builder().content(content).writer(writer).build());
    }

    void write(@Nonnull XmlWriterRequest<T> request) throws XmlWriterException;

    /**
     * Simply parse the given xml string.
     *
     * @param xml the input xml string
     * @return the parsed object
     * @throws XmlReaderException if an error occurs during the parsing
     * @see #toXmlString(Object)
     */
    @Nonnull

import org.apache.maven.api.annotations.Nonnull;

/**
 * Dependency scope.
 * This represents at which time the dependency will be used, for example, at compile time only,
 * at run time or at test time.  For a given dependency, the scope is directly derived from the
 * {@link org.apache.maven.api.model.Dependency#getScope()} and will be used when using {@link PathScope}
 * and the {@link org.apache.maven.api.services.DependencyResolver}.
 *

     * configuration expansion (merging configuration defined globally for a given plugin
     * using {@link org.apache.maven.api.model.Plugin#getConfiguration()}
     * into the configuration for each {@link org.apache.maven.api.model.PluginExecution}.
     */
    boolean isProcessPlugins();

    /**
     * Defines external profiles that may be activated for the given model.

    /**
     * Performs a lookup for given typed component.
     *
     * @param type The component type.
     * @return The component.
     * @param <T> The component type.
     * @throws LookupException if no such component or there is some provisioning related issue.
     */
    @Nonnull
    <T> T lookup(Class<T> type);

    /**
     * Performs a lookup for given typed component.
     *

 * @since 4.0.0
 */
public interface ModelSource extends Source {

    interface ModelLocator {
        /**
         * Returns the file containing the pom or null if a pom can not be
         * found at the given file or in the given directory.
         *
         * @since 4.0.0
         */
        @Nullable
        Path locateExistingPom(@Nonnull Path project);
    }

    @Nullable

import org.apache.maven.api.plugin.descriptor.MojoDescriptor;
import org.apache.maven.api.xml.XmlNode;

/**
 * A {@code MojoExecution} represents a single execution of a Maven Plugin during a given build.
 * An instance of this object is bound to the {@link org.apache.maven.api.di.MojoExecutionScoped}
 * and available as {@code mojoExecution} within {@link org.apache.maven.api.plugin.annotations.Parameter}
 * expressions.
 *

     * @throws IllegalStateException if multiple versions of the same GA are part of the reactor
     */
    Model getRawModel(Path from, String groupId, String artifactId);

    /**
     * Locate the POM file inside the given directory.
     */
    Path locate(Path path);

     */
    @Nonnull
    VersionConstraint parseVersionConstraint(@Nonnull String constraint);

    /**
     * Checks whether a given artifact version is considered a {@code SNAPSHOT} or not.
     */
    boolean isSnapshot(@Nonnull String version);