retValue = "/";
        }
        return retValue.trim();
    }

    /**
     * Decodes the specified (portion of a) URL. <strong>Note:</strong> This decoder assumes that ISO-8859-1 is used to
     * convert URL-encoded bytes to characters.
     *
     * @param url The URL to decode, may be <code>null</code>.
     * @return The decoded URL or <code>null</code> if the input was <code>null</code>.
     */

            hashString.append(md.getArtifactScope()).append('|');
        }

        return hashString.toString().hashCode();

        // BASE64Encoder b64 = new BASE64Encoder();
        // return b64.encode( hashString.toString().getBytes() ).hashCode();
    }

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

 * <li>success with warnings - model field + non-error model problems
 * <li>error - no model, but diagnostics
 * <li>error - (partial) model and diagnostics
 * </ol>
 * Could encode these variants as subclasses, but kept in one for now
 *
 * @param <T> the model type
 */
public class Result<T> {

    /**
     * Success without warnings
     *
     * @param model
     */

            throws RepositoryMetadataStoreException {
        // TODO currently this is first wins, but really we should take the latest by comparing either the
        // 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