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

import static org.apache.maven.api.services.BaseRequest.nonNull;

/**
 * Provides access to the contents of a source independently of the
 * backing store (e.g. file system, database, memory).
 * <p>
 * This is mainly used to parse files into objects such as
 * {@link org.apache.maven.api.Project},
 * {@link org.apache.maven.api.model.Model},
 * {@link org.apache.maven.api.settings.Settings}, or

 */
package org.apache.maven.building;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

/**
 * Provides access to the contents of a source independently of the backing store (e.g. file system, database, memory).
 *
 */
public interface Source {

    /**
     * Gets a byte stream to the source contents. Closing the returned stream is the responsibility of the caller.
     *