this.localRepository = localRepository;

        if (localRepository != null) {
            setLocalRepositoryPath(new File(localRepository.getBasedir()).getAbsoluteFile());
        }

        return this;
    }

    @Override
    public MavenExecutionRequest setLocalRepositoryPath(File localRepository) {
        localRepositoryPath = localRepository;

        return this;
    }

        if (request.getLocalRepository() == null) {
            request.setLocalRepository(createLocalRepository(request));
        }

        if (request.getLocalRepositoryPath() == null) {
            request.setLocalRepositoryPath(new File(request.getLocalRepository().getBasedir()).getAbsoluteFile());
        }
    }

    // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    // Artifact Transfer Mechanism

        request.setOffline(settings.isOffline());

        request.setInteractiveMode(settings.isInteractiveMode());

        request.setPluginGroups(settings.getPluginGroups());

        request.setLocalRepositoryPath(settings.getLocalRepository());

        for (Server server : settings.getServers()) {
            request.addServer(server);
        }

        //  <proxies>
        //    <proxy>

    MavenExecutionRequest setGlobalChecksumPolicy(String globalChecksumPolicy);

    String getGlobalChecksumPolicy();

    // Local repository
    MavenExecutionRequest setLocalRepositoryPath(String localRepository);

    MavenExecutionRequest setLocalRepositoryPath(File localRepository);

    File getLocalRepositoryPath();

    MavenExecutionRequest setLocalRepository(ArtifactRepository repository);

        populateRequestFromSettings(request, context.effectiveSettings);

        request.setLoggingLevel(toMavenExecutionRequestLoggingLevel(context.loggerLevel));
        request.setLocalRepositoryPath(context.localRepositoryPath.toFile());
        request.setLocalRepository(createLocalArtifactRepository(context.localRepositoryPath));

        request.setInteractiveMode(context.interactive);

        final String localRepositoryPath = determineLocalRepositoryPath(request);
        if (localRepositoryPath != null) {
            request.setLocalRepositoryPath(localRepositoryPath);
        }

        //
        // Builder, concurrency and parallelism
        //