/**
     * Builds a project descriptor for the specified artifact.
     *
     * @param projectArtifact The POM artifact to build the project from, must not be {@code null}.
     * @param allowStubModel A flag controlling the case of a missing POM artifact. If {@code true} and the specified
     *            POM artifact does not exist, a simple stub model will be returned. If {@code false}, an exception will
     *            be thrown.

        }

        if (path == null) {
            return null;
        }

        path = path.trim();

        String base = basedir.getAbsolutePath();
        if (path.startsWith(base)) {
            path = chopLeadingFileSeparator(path.substring(base.length()));
        }

        if (path.isEmpty()) {
            path = ".";
        }

        if (!new File(path).isAbsolute()) {

     * line.
     *
     * @return The user properties, never {@code null}.
     */
    Map<String, String> getUserProperties();

    /**
     * Gets the base directory of the current project (if any).
     *
     * @return The base directory of the current project or {@code null} if none.
     */
    Path getProjectDirectory();

    /**
     * Gets current calculated project properties
     *

        DefaultBeanConfigurationRequest request = new DefaultBeanConfigurationRequest();
        request.setBean(bean).setConfiguration(config);
        request.setValuePreprocessor(preprocessor).setPathTranslator(translator);

        configurator.configureBean(request);

        assertEquals(Paths.get("base/test").toAbsolutePath(), bean.file);
    }

            name = name.substring(1);
        }

        if (name == null || name.isEmpty()) {
            problems.add(
                    BuilderProblem.Severity.ERROR,
                    ModelProblem.Version.BASE,
                    "The property name is required to activate the profile " + profile.getId(),
                    property.getLocation(""));
            return false;
        }

        if (version == null || version.isEmpty()) {
            problems.add(
                    BuilderProblem.Severity.ERROR,
                    ModelProblem.Version.BASE,
                    "Failed to determine Java version for profile " + profile.getId(),
                    activation.getLocation("jdk"));
            return false;
        }

     * The returned list of versions is only dependent on the configured repositories and their contents.
     * The supplied request may also refer to a single concrete version rather than a version range.
     * In this case though, the result contains simply the (parsed) input version, regardless of the
     * repositories and their contents.
     *
     * @param session the session to use
     * @param artifactCoordinate t

     */
    @Nonnull
    String getArtifactId();

    /**
     * The version of the artifact.
     *
     * @return the version
     */
    @Nonnull
    Version getVersion();

    /**
     * The base version of the artifact.
     *
     * @return the version
     */
    @Nonnull
    Version getBaseVersion();

    /**
     * The classifier of the artifact.
     *

     * now depends upon d, which has a transitive dependency on c.  Even though
     * we did list an exclusion on c, it was only from within the context of
     * project b.  We will pick up project c in this case because no
     * restrictions were placed on d.  This demonstrates that a, b, c, & d will
     * all be collected.
     *
     * @throws Exception
     */
    @Test

 * Resolves relative paths of a model against a specific base directory.
 *
 */
public interface ModelPathTranslator {

    /**
     * Resolves the well-known paths of the specified model against the given base directory. Paths within plugin
     * configuration are not processed.
     *
     * @param model The model whose paths should be resolved, may be {@code null}.