Examples of variants each Java components typically offers are _api_ and _runtime_ variants.
Others examples are JDK8 and JDK11 variants.
For more information, see the section on <<variant_model.adoc#understanding-variant-selection,variant selection>>.

[[sub:terminology_attribute]]
== Variant Attribute

Attributes are used to identify and select <<#sub:terminology_variant,variants>>.

import org.gradle.internal.HasInternalProtocol;

import javax.annotation.Nullable;

/**
 * Represents a tuple of the component selector of a module and a candidate version
 * to be evaluated in a component selection rule.
 */
@HasInternalProtocol
public interface ComponentSelection {
    /**
     * Gets the candidate version of the module.
     *
     * @return the candidate version of the module
     */

	// ProtocolSelection should generate
	// https://istio.io/v1.15/docs/ops/configuration/traffic-management/protocol-selection/
	ProtocolSelection = fmt.Sprintf("%s%s", OpsURL, "configuration/traffic-management/protocol-selection/")

	// #####################################
	// Reference related URLs for istio.io
	// #####################################

rootProject.name = 'lockmode-selection'...

rootProject.name = 'component-selection-rules'...

type EgressSelectorConfiguration struct {
	metav1.TypeMeta

	// EgressSelections contains a list of egress selection client configurations
	EgressSelections []EgressSelection
}

// EgressSelection provides the configuration for a single egress selection client.
type EgressSelection struct {
	// Name is the name of the egress selection.
	// Currently supported values are "controlplane", "etcd" and "cluster"
	Name string

	GetTargetRefs() []*v1beta1.PolicyTargetReference
	GetSelector() *v1beta1.WorkloadSelector
}

// WorkloadPolicyMatcher performs policy selection either using targetRef or label selectors.
// Label selection uses the workload labels.
// TargetRef selection uses either the workload's namespace + the gateway name based on labels,
// or the Services the workload is a part of.
type WorkloadPolicyMatcher struct {

 * dependencies are executed. For this reason, we delay artifact selection until after this artifact
 * set is restored from the configuration cache. This differs from normal artifact variant selection
 * where we can perform selection before serialization.</p>
 *
 * <p>The tricky part that due to the artifactType registry, artifact variant selection depends on the

		}
		// Still make sure we didn't delete anything extra
		if len(extraDeletes) > 0 {
			log.Errorf("%s: TEST for node:%s unexpected deletions: %v %v", v3.GetShortType(w.TypeUrl), con.proxy.ID, details, extraDeletes)
		}
	} else {
		if len(extraDeletes) > 0 {
			log.Errorf("%s: TEST for node:%s unexpected deletions: %v %v", v3.GetShortType(w.TypeUrl), con.proxy.ID, details, extraDeletes)
		}
		if len(missedDeletes) > 0 && !incremental {

        then:
        failure.assertHasCause("Could not resolve org:transitive:1.+: Resolution strategy disallows usage of dynamic versions")
    }

    def "fails if a transitive dynamic selector participates in selection"() {
        buildFile << """
            dependencies {
                conf 'org:test:1.0'
                conf 'org:testB:1.0'
            }
        """

        repository {