String goal = null;

        Plugin plugin = null;

        String[] tok = task.split(":");

        int numTokens = tok.length;

        if (numTokens >= 4) {
            // We have everything that we need
            //
            // org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-remote-resources-plugin:1.0:process
            //
            // groupId
            // artifactId
            // version

     * Whether module hierarchy was detected. If false, then package hierarchy is assumed.
     * In a package hierarchy, the {@linkplain #descriptors} map has either zero or one entry.
     * In a module hierarchy, the descriptors map may have an arbitrary number of entries,
     * including one (so the map size cannot be used as a criterion).
     *
     * @see #isModuleHierarchy()
     */
    private final boolean isModuleHierarchy;

    /**

     * method "filters" out in WHICH artifact are we interested in, but it intentionally neglects extension as
     * ArtifactDescriptorReader modifies extension to "pom" during collect. So all we have to rely on is GAV only.
     */
    static boolean isInScope(Artifact artifact, Artifact nodeArtifact) {
        return Objects.equals(artifact.getGroupId(), nodeArtifact.getGroupId())

                for (String s : MultilineMessageHelper.format(
                        "Your build is requesting parallel execution, but this project contains the following "
                                + "plugin(s) that have goals not marked as thread-safe to support parallel execution.",
                        "While this /may/ work fine, please look for plugin updates and/or "
                                + "request plugins be made thread-safe.",

        }

        // After the collection we will have the artifact object in the result but they will not be resolved yet.
        result = artifactCollector.collect(
                artifacts, rootArtifact, managedVersions, collectionRequest, source, collectionFilter, listeners, null);

        // We have metadata retrieval problems, or there are cycles that have been detected

        ArtifactSpec b = a.addDependency("b", "1.0");
        b.addDependency("a", "1.0");
        assertThrows(
                CyclicDependencyException.class,
                () -> collect(a),
                "Should have failed on cyclic dependency not involving project");
    }

    @Test
    @Disabled("works, but we don't fail on cycles presently")
    void testCircularDependencyIncludingCurrentProject()

    }

    /**
     * Test <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5568">MNG-5568</a> edge case
     * which was showing transitive inconsistency: since A &gt; B and B &gt; C then we should have A &gt; 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

            if (pathSeparator > 0) {
                value = basedir + expression.substring(pathSeparator);
            }
        }

        /*
         * MNG-4312: We neither have reserved all of the above magic expressions nor is their set fixed/well-known (it
         * gets occasionally extended by newer Maven versions). This imposes the risk for existing plugins to

            url = "file://" + url;
        } else if (url.startsWith("file:") && !url.startsWith("file://")) {
            url = "file://" + url.substring("file:".length());
        }

        // So now we have an url of the form file://<path>

        // We want to eliminate any relative path nonsense and lock down the path so we
        // need to fully resolve it before any submodules use the path. This can happen

                                // MNG-2123: if the previous node was not a range, then it wouldn't have any available
                                // versions. We just clobbered the selected version above. (why? I have no idea.)
                                // So since we are here and this is ranges we must go figure out the version (for a
                                // third time...)