/**
 * Generic interface to read/write objects to/from XML.
 *
 * @param <T> the object type to read/write
 * @since 4.0.0
 */
@Experimental
public interface XmlFactory<T> extends Service {

    @Nonnull
    default T read(@Nonnull Path path) throws XmlReaderException {
        return read(path, true);
    }

    @Nonnull
    default T read(@Nonnull Path path, boolean strict) throws XmlReaderException {

        return null;
    }

    private String getError(File touchFile, String key) {
        Properties props = read(touchFile);
        if (props != null) {
            return props.getProperty(key + ERROR_KEY_SUFFIX);
        }
        return null;
    }

    private Properties read(File touchfile) {
        if (!touchfile.canRead()) {

        try (InputStream inputStream = Files.newInputStream(file)) {
            org.apache.maven.model.Model model =
                    new org.apache.maven.model.Model(new MavenStaxReader().read(inputStream));
            project = new MavenProject(model);
            project.setRootDirectory(Paths.get("src/test/resources/consumer/trivial"));
            project.setOriginalModel(model);

import org.apache.maven.api.model.Model;
import org.apache.maven.api.services.Source;

/**
 * The {@code ModelParser} interface is used to locate and read {@link Model}s from the file system.
 * This allows plugging in additional syntaxes for the main model read by Maven when building a project.
 *
 * @since 4.0.0
 */
@Experimental
@Consumer
public interface ModelParser extends SpiService {

    /**

            return new Metadata(new MetadataStaxReader().read(in, false));
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            throw new RepositoryMetadataReadException("Cannot read metadata from '" + mappingFile + "'", e);
        } catch (IOException | XMLStreamException e) {
            throw new RepositoryMetadataReadException(
                    "Cannot read metadata from '" + mappingFile + "': " + e.getMessage(), e);
        }

        assertTrue(globalSettingsFile.isFile(), globalSettingsFile.getAbsolutePath());

        try (InputStream is = Files.newInputStream(globalSettingsFile.toPath())) {
            new SettingsStaxReader().read(is, true, new InputSource(globalSettingsFile.getAbsolutePath()));
        }
    }

            throw new IllegalArgumentException("The POM found does not belong to the given directory: " + pom);
        }
        return pom;
    }

    @Override
    public Model read(XmlReaderRequest request) throws IOException {
        Objects.requireNonNull(request, "source cannot be null");
        Path pomFile = request.getPath();
        if (pomFile != null) {

     * objects from the parent.
     *
     * @param child The child model into which to merge the values inherited from the parent, must not be
     *            <code>null</code>.
     * @param parent The (read-only) parent model from which to inherit the values, may be <code>null</code>.
     * @param request The model building request that holds further settings, must not be {@code null}.

     * @return The deserialized model, never {@code null}.
     * @throws IOException If the model could not be deserialized.
     * @throws XmlReaderException If the input format could not be parsed.
     */
    Model read(XmlReaderRequest request) throws IOException, XmlReaderException;

@Named
@Singleton
public class DefaultMetadataReader implements MetadataReader {

    public Metadata read(File input, Map<String, ?> options) throws IOException {
        Objects.requireNonNull(input, "input cannot be null");

        return read(Files.newInputStream(input.toPath()), options);
    }

    public Metadata read(Reader input, Map<String, ?> options) throws IOException {