value = null;
        }

        if (value == null) {
            // The CLI should win for defining properties

            if (properties != null) {
                // We will attempt to get nab a property as a way to specify a parameter
                // to a plugin. My particular case here is allowing the surefire plugin
                // to run a single test so I want to specify that class on the cli as

     * constructed. Model identifiers have the form {@code <groupId>:<artifactId>:<version>}. The first identifier from
     * the list denotes the model on which the model builder was originally invoked. The last identifier will always be
     * an empty string that by definition denotes the super POM.
     *
     * @return The model identifiers from the lineage of models, never {@code null}.
     */
    @Nonnull
    List<String> getModelIds();

            if (request.isResolveRoot()) {
                result.addArtifact(rootArtifact);
            }
            return result;
        }

        // 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);

        if (!VALID_MODEL_VERSIONS.contains(superModelVersion)) {
            // Maven 3.x is always using 4.0.0 version to load the supermodel, so
            // do the same when loading a dependency.  The model validator will also
            // check that field later.
            superModelVersion = "4.0.0";
        }
        ModelData superData = new ModelData(null, getSuperModel(superModelVersion));

        // profile activation

     * then the path type is determined by checking if the dependency is modular.</p>
     *
     * @param types types of path where a dependency can be placed
     * @param filter filter the paths accepted by the tool which will consume the path
     * @param path path to the JAR file or output directory of the dependency
     * @return where to place the dependency, or an empty value if the placement cannot be determined

    private Map<String, Profile> profilesById = new LinkedHashMap<>();

    private Properties requestProperties;

    /**
     * @deprecated without passing in the system properties, the SystemPropertiesProfileActivator will not work
     *             correctly in embedded environments.
     */
    @Deprecated
    public DefaultProfileManager(PlexusContainer container) {
        this(container, null);
    }

    /**

     * @param artifacts The artifacts to add to the realm, may be {@code null}. Unresolved artifacts (i.e. with a
     *            missing file) will automatically be excluded from the realm.
     * @return The created class realm, never {@code null}.
     */
    private ClassRealm createRealm(
            String baseRealmId,
            RealmType type,

    /**
     * Indicates if the model to be built is a local project or a dependency.
     * In case the project is loaded externally from a remote repository (as a dependency or
     * even as an external parent), the POM will be parsed in a lenient way.  Local POMs
     * are parsed more strictly.
     */
    boolean isProjectBuild();

    /**
     * Specifies whether plugin processing should take place for the built model.

        //
        // Note that participants may affect the topological order of the projects but it is
        // not expected that a participant will add or remove projects from the session.
        //

        graphResult = buildGraph(session);

        if (graphResult.hasErrors()) {
            return addExceptionToResult(

        return !((version == null || version.isEmpty()) || version.startsWith("[") || version.startsWith("("));
    }

    // TODO !![jc; 28-jul-2005] check this; if we're using '-r' and there are aggregator tasks, this will result in
    // weirdness.
    public MavenProject getTopLevelProject() {
        return sortedProjects.stream()
                .filter(MavenProject::isExecutionRoot)
                .findFirst()