// even before the arguments from the command line are parsed.  Any exception
            // that would happen here should cause the build to fail at a later stage
            // (when actually parsing the POM) and will lead to a better exception being
            // displayed to the user, so just bail out and return false.
        }
        return false;
    }

/**
 * Handles deserialization of metadata from some kind of textual format like XML.
 *
 */
public interface MetadataReader {

    /**
     * The key for the option to enable strict parsing. This option is of type {@link Boolean} and defaults to {@code
     * true}. If {@code false}, unknown elements will be ignored instead of causing a failure.
     */

    }

    /**
     * Simply parse the given xml string.
     *
     * @param xml the input xml string
     * @return the parsed object
     * @throws XmlReaderException if an error occurs during the parsing
     * @see #toXmlString(Object)
     */
    public static Model fromXml(@Nonnull String xml) throws XmlReaderException {
        return new DefaultModelXmlFactory().fromXmlString(xml);
    }

    /**

    }

    /**
     * Simply parse the given xml string.
     *
     * @param xml the input xml string
     * @return the parsed object
     * @throws XmlReaderException if an error occurs during the parsing
     * @see #toXmlString(Object)
     */
    public static Model fromXml(@Nonnull String xml) throws XmlReaderException {
        return new DefaultModelXmlFactory().fromXmlString(xml);
    }

    /**

     *
     * @param version the version string to parse
     * @return the version parsed from the given string
     * @throws org.apache.maven.api.services.VersionParserException if the parsing failed
     * @see org.apache.maven.api.services.VersionParser#parseVersion(String)
     */
    @Nonnull
    Version parseVersion(@Nonnull String version);

    /**

            PluginDescriptor pluginDescriptor = null;
            if (plugin.isExtensions() && !artifacts.isEmpty()) {
                // ignore plugin descriptor parsing errors at this point
                // these errors will reported during calculation of project build execution plan
                try {
                    pluginDescriptor = extractPluginDescriptor(artifacts.get(0), plugin);

org.slf4j.simpleLogger.logFile=System.out
org.slf4j.simpleLogger.cacheOutputStream=true
org.slf4j.simpleLogger.levelInBrackets=true
org.slf4j.simpleLogger.log.Sisu=info
org.slf4j.simpleLogger.warnLevelString=WARNING

# MNG-6181: mvn -X also prints all debug logging from HttpClient
org.slf4j.simpleLogger.log.org.apache.http=off

     */
    @Nonnull
    Settings getEffectiveSettings();

    /**
     * Gets the problems that were encountered during the settings building. Note that only problems of severity
     * {@link BuilderProblem.Severity#WARNING} and below are reported here. Problems with a higher severity level cause
     * the settings builder to fail with a {@link SettingsBuilderException}.
     *

 * artifact and does not contain any runtime specific data. The cache must not be used for descriptors that hold runtime
 * data like the plugin realm. <strong>Warning:</strong> This is an internal utility interface that is only public for
 * technical reasons, it is not part of the public API. In particular, this interface can be changed or deleted without
 * prior notice.
 *
 * @since 3.0

public interface ToolchainsBuilder {

    /**
     * Builds the toolchains model from the configured toolchain files.
     *
     * @param userToolchainsFile The path to the toolchains file, may be <code>null</code> to disable parsing.
     * @return The toolchains model or <code>null</code> if no toolchain file was configured or the configured file does
     *         not exist.