* {@linkplain org.apache.maven.api.services.VersionParser} service.
 *
 * @see Version
 * @see VersionRange
 * @see org.apache.maven.api.services.VersionParser#parseVersionConstraint(String)
 * @see org.apache.maven.api.Session#parseVersionConstraint(String)
 * @since 4.0.0
 */
@Experimental
public interface VersionConstraint {
    /**
     * Returns the range of this constraint, or {@code null} if none.
     * <p>

     * @return the parsed version constraint, never {@code null}
     * @throws VersionParserException if the range specification violates the syntax rules of this scheme
     */
    @Nonnull
    VersionConstraint parseVersionConstraint(@Nonnull String constraint);

    /**
     * Checks whether a given artifact version is considered a {@code SNAPSHOT} or not.
     */
    boolean isSnapshot(@Nonnull String version);

     * Shortcut for {@code getService(VersionParser.class).parseVersionConstraint(...)}.
     *
     * @param versionConstraint the version string to parse
     * @return the version constraint parsed from the given string
     * @throws org.apache.maven.api.services.VersionParserException if the parsing failed
     * @see org.apache.maven.api.services.VersionParser#parseVersionConstraint(String)
     */
    @Nonnull