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            Arrays.asList(ValidationReportLevel.INLINE, ValidationReportLevel.BRIEF));

    private enum ValidationReportLevel {
        NONE, // mute validation completely (validation issue collection still happens, it is just not reported!)
        INLINE, // inline, each "internal" problem one line next to mojo invocation
        SUMMARY, // at end, list of plugin GAVs along with ANY validation issues

        is the location of a file that needs to exist, and if it doesn't, the profile will be
        activated. On the other hand, {@code exists} will test for the existence of the file and if it is
        there, the profile will be activated.
        <p>Variable interpolation for these file specifications is limited to {@code ${project.basedir}},

     * which was showing transitive inconsistency: since A > B and B > C then we should have A > C
     * otherwise sorting a list of ComparableVersions() will in some cases throw runtime exception;
     * see Netbeans issues <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240845">240845</a> and
     * <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=226100">226100</a>

         * ended up with a magic value that is not compatible with the type of the configured mojo parameter (a string
         * could still be converted by the configurator so we leave those alone). If so, back off to evaluating the
         * expression from properties only.
         */

 *
 */
public interface MetadataReader {

    /**
     * The key for the option to enable strict parsing. This option is of type {@link Boolean} and defaults to {@code
     * true}. If {@code false}, unknown elements will be ignored instead of causing a failure.
     */
    String IS_STRICT = "org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.io.isStrict";

    /**
     * Reads the metadata from the specified file.
     *

     * the bean class will be used.
     *
     * @return The class loader to load referenced types from or {@code null} if unset.
     */
    ClassLoader getClassLoader();

    /**
     * Sets the class loader from which to load any types referenced by the configuration. If unset, the class loader of
     * the bean class will be used.
     *

// TODO project dependencies that need downloading
// TODO unfortunately the plugins need to be downloaded in order to get the plugin.xml file. need to externalize this
//      from the plugin archive.
// TODO this will be the class that people get in IDEs to modify

/**
 * MavenExecutionPlan
 */
public class MavenExecutionPlan implements Iterable<ExecutionPlanItem> {

    /*

if exist "%USERPROFILE%\mavenrc_post.bat" echo Warning: The mavenrc_post.bat script is deprecated and will be removed in a future version. >&2
if exist "%USERPROFILE%\mavenrc_post.bat" call "%USERPROFILE%\mavenrc_post.bat"
if exist "%USERPROFILE%\mavenrc_post.cmd" echo Warning: The mavenrc_post.cmd script is deprecated and will be removed in a future version. >&2
if exist "%USERPROFILE%\mavenrc_post.cmd" call "%USERPROFILE%\mavenrc_post.cmd"

     */
    void add(Problem.Severity severity, String message, int line, int column, Exception cause);

    /**
     * The next messages will be bound to this source. When calling this method again, previous messages keep
     * their source, but the next messages will use the new source.
     *
     * @param source a source
     */
    void setSource(String source);

    /**
     *