* asynchronously-computed intermediate value, or else an exception that indicates the failure or
 * cancellation of the operation so far. The only way to extract the value or exception from a step
 * is by declaring that step to be the last step of the pipeline. Nevertheless, we refer to the
 * "value" of a successful step or the "result" (value or exception) of any step.
 *

     * <p>
     * Shortcut for {@code getService(ArtifactManager.class).isSnapshot(...)}.
     * <p>
     * In case there is {@link Artifact} in scope, the recommended way to perform this check is
     * use of {@link Artifact#isSnapshot()} instead.
     *
     * @param version artifact version
     * @return whether the given version is a snapshot
     *

#### New Deprecations

// of bytes in the combined first two elements, error).
// The complete result is equal to
// `bytes.Join(append(fullBuffers, finalFragment), nil)`, which has a
// length of `totalLen`. The result is structured in this way to allow callers
// to minimize allocations and copies.
func (b *Reader) collectFragments(delim byte) (fullBuffers [][]byte, finalFragment []byte, totalLen int, err error) {
	var frag []byte

 *       {@code fail}, {@code assertTrue}, etc.) It is OK (but not particularly recommended) for
 *       other code to use these forms too. Only the most typically used JUnit assertion methods are
 *       defined this way, but enough to live with.
 *   <li>If you override {@link #setUp} or {@link #tearDown}, make sure to invoke {@code
 *       super.setUp} and {@code super.tearDown} within them. These methods are used to clear and

                // this is so damn unreliable, needs another race-prone query if required
                haveAttributes = false;

                // This seems to be the only way to obtain a reliable (with respect to locking) file size here
                // It is more critical than other attributes because append mode depends on it.

				} else {
					err = errFileNotFound
				}
			}
		}
		// when we have insufficient read quorum and inconsistent metadata return
		// file not found, since we can't possibly have a way to recover this object
		// anyway.
		if v, ok := err.(InsufficientReadQuorum); ok && v.Type == RQInconsistentMeta {
			if opts.VersionID != "" {
				err = errFileVersionNotFound
			} else {
				err = errFileNotFound

  @GwtIncompatible // too slow
  public void testCombinationsExhaustively_startingFromArbitrary() {
    Ordering<Object> arbitrary = Ordering.arbitrary();
    Object[] array = {1, "foo", new Object()};

    // There's no way to tell what the order should be except empirically
    sort(array, arbitrary);
    testExhaustively(arbitrary, array);
  }

  /**

  @GwtIncompatible // too slow
  public void testCombinationsExhaustively_startingFromArbitrary() {
    Ordering<Object> arbitrary = Ordering.arbitrary();
    Object[] array = {1, "foo", new Object()};

    // There's no way to tell what the order should be except empirically
    sort(array, arbitrary);
    testExhaustively(arbitrary, array);
  }

  /**

   * starts from a {@link File} and will return all files and directories it encounters.
   *
   * <p><b>Warning:</b> {@code File} provides no support for symbolic links, and as such there is no
   * way to ensure that a symbolic link to a directory is not followed when traversing the tree. In
   * this case, iterables created by this traverser could contain files that are outside of the