*     very rare. Note that if backward conversion is not only unimplemented but
   *     unimplement<i>able</i> (for example, consider a {@code Converter<Chicken, ChickenNugget>}),
   *     then this is not logically a {@code Converter} at all, and should just implement {@link
   *     Function}.
   */
  @ForOverride
  protected abstract A doBackward(B b);

  // API (consumer-side) methods

  /**

     * on an SMB server addressed by the <code>SmbFile</code> parameter. See
     * {@link jcifs.smb.SmbFile} for a detailed description and examples of
     * the smb URL syntax. If the second argument is <code>true</code>, then
     * bytes will be written to the end of the file rather than the beginning.
     *
     * @param file
     *            An <code>SmbFile</code> representing the file to write to
     * @param append

     * We want to make sure that what is ask for in the execution request overrides what is in the settings.
     * The CLI feeds into an execution request so if a particular value is present in the execution request
     * then we will take that over the value coming from the user settings.
     */
    private static Settings adaptSettings(MavenExecutionRequest request) {
        File localRepo = request.getLocalRepositoryPath();

    connection.calls.add(CallReference(this, callStackTrace))
  }

  /**
   * Releases resources held with the request or response of [exchange]. This should be called when
   * the request completes normally or when it fails due to an exception, in which case [e] should
   * be non-null.
   *
   * If the exchange was canceled or timed out, this will wrap [e] in an exception that provides

     * transformations on the remote repositories being used. For example if you replace existing repositories with
     * mirrors then it's easier to just replace the whole list with a new list of transformed repositories.
     *
     * @param repositories
     * @return This request, never {@code null}.
     */

      }

      @Override
      public String getExpected(String data) {
        /*
         * Get what the byte sink factory would expect for no written bytes, then append expected
         * string to that.
         */
        byte[] factoryExpectedForNothing = factory.getExpected(new byte[0]);
        return new String(factoryExpectedForNothing, UTF_8) + checkNotNull(data);
      }

 * k). In benchmarks, this implementation performs at least as well as either implementation, and
 * degrades more gracefully for worst-case input.
 *
 * <p>The implementation does not necessarily use a <i>stable</i> sorting algorithm; when multiple
 * equivalent elements are added to it, it is undefined which will come first in the output.
 *
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 */
@GwtCompatible
final class TopKSelector<
    T extends @Nullable Object> {

  }

  enum RunningState {
    NOT_RUN,
    CANCELLED,
    STARTED,
  }

  /**
   * This class helps avoid a StackOverflowError when large numbers of tasks are submitted with
   * {@link MoreExecutors#directExecutor}. Normally, when the first future completes, all the other
   * tasks would be called recursively. Here, we detect that the delegate executor is executing

 * the <code>load</code> method should be called with the name of a
 * <code>Properties</code> file (or <code>null</code> indicating no
 * file) to initialize the <code>Config</code>. The <code>System</code>
 * properties will then populate the <code>Config</code> as well potentially
 * overwriting properties from the file. Thus properties provided on the
 * commandline with the <code>-Dproperty.name=value</code> VM parameter

 * {@link XpathTransformer} is a class that transforms HTML content into XML format based on XPath expressions.
 * It extracts data from an HTML document by applying XPath rules defined in {@link #fieldRuleMap}.
 * The extracted data is then formatted into an XML structure and stored in the {@link ResultData}.
 * <p>
 * This class extends {@link HtmlTransformer} and overrides the {@link #storeData(ResponseData, ResultData)} method