* similar to the way Maven configures plugins from the POM, i.e. some configuration like {@code <param>value</param>}
 * is mapped to an equally named property of the bean and converted. The properties of the bean are supposed to either
 * have a public setter or be backed by an equally named field (of any visibility).
 *
 * @since 3.0
 */

     */
    <T> void set(@Nonnull Key<T> key, @Nullable T value);

    /**
     * Associates the specified session data with the given key if the key is currently mapped to the given value. This
     * method provides an atomic compare-and-update of some key's value.
     *
     * @param key the key under which to store the session data, must not be {@code null}

    public String getId() {
        StringBuilder id = new StringBuilder( 64 );

        id.append( ( getGroupId() == null ) ? "[inherited]" : getGroupId() );
        id.append( ":" );
        id.append( getArtifactId() );
        id.append( ":" );
        id.append( getPackaging() );
        id.append( ":" );
        id.append( ( getVersion() == null ) ? "[inherited]" : getVersion() );

        return id.toString();
    }

reference to the host application in order to perform its work. This may not occur in the first versions of the plugin API but a resource needs to simply become the mapping mechanism by which parameters are taken from the REST side of the application and mapped into a method call within a given Plexus component. Whether that be the core Nexus application or a component provided by a plugin.

At the very least in the short term the resource needs to know how to look up the component that is required...

public class MappedCollection<U, V> extends AbstractCollection<U> {
    private final Collection<V> list;
    private final Function<V, U> mapper;

    public MappedCollection(Collection<V> list, Function<V, U> mapper) {
        this.list = list;
        this.mapper = mapper;
    }

    @Override
    public Iterator<U> iterator() {
        Iterator<V> it = list.iterator();
        return new Iterator<U>() {

        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(128);
        sb.append("MavenProject: ");
        sb.append(getGroupId());
        sb.append(':');
        sb.append(getArtifactId());
        sb.append(':');
        sb.append(getVersion());
        if (getFile() != null) {
            sb.append(" @ ");
            sb.append(getFile().getPath());
        }

        return sb.toString();
    }

        if (localRepository != null) {
            repos.append(localRepository.getId())
                    .append(" (")
                    .append(localRepository.getBasedir())
                    .append(")");
        }

        if (remoteRepositories != null && !remoteRepositories.isEmpty()) {
            for (RemoteRepository repository : remoteRepositories) {
                repos.append(", ");

                if (repository != null) {

            buffer.append("'parent.relativePath'");
            if (childModel != problems.getRootModel()) {
                buffer.append(" of POM ").append(ModelProblemUtils.toSourceHint(childModel));
            }
            buffer.append(" points at ").append(groupId).append(':').append(artifactId);
            buffer.append(" instead of ").append(parent.getGroupId()).append(':');

    public String toString() {
        StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder(64);
        buffer.append("{enabled=");
        buffer.append(enabled);
        buffer.append(", checksums=");
        buffer.append(checksumPolicy);
        buffer.append(", updates=");
        buffer.append(updatePolicy);
        buffer.append('}');
        return buffer.toString();
    }

        StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder();

        buf.append(isLowerBoundInclusive() ? '[' : '(');
        if (getLowerBound() != null) {
            buf.append(getLowerBound().toString());
        }
        buf.append(',');
        if (getUpperBound() != null) {
            buf.append(getUpperBound().toString());
        }
        buf.append(isUpperBoundInclusive() ? ']' : ')');

        return buf.toString();