}
            final HttpServletResponse response = LaResponseUtil.getResponse();
            final SpnegoHttpServletResponse spnegoResponse = new SpnegoHttpServletResponse(response);

            // client/caller principal
            final SpnegoPrincipal principal;
            try {
                principal = getAuthenticator().authenticate(request, spnegoResponse);
                if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {

 *
 * <p><b>Note:</b> {@code ComparisonChain} instances are <b>immutable</b>. For this utility to work
 * correctly, calls must be chained as illustrated above.
 *
 * <p>Performance note: Even though the {@code ComparisonChain} caller always invokes its {@code
 * compare} methods unconditionally, the {@code ComparisonChain} implementation stops calling its
 * inputs' {@link Comparable#compareTo compareTo} and {@link Comparator#compare compare} methods as

   * Optional.orElseGet}, except when {@code supplier} returns {@code null}. In this case this
   * method throws an exception, whereas the Java 8+ method returns the {@code null} to the caller.
   *
   * @throws NullPointerException if this optional's value is absent and the supplier returns {@code
   *     null}
   */
  public abstract T or(Supplier<? extends T> supplier);

  /**

 * which approach to use, <b>don't worry</b> too much about it; just pick something that seems
 * reasonable and it will be fine.
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>If checking whether the <i>caller</i> has violated your method or constructor's contract
 *       (such as by passing an invalid argument), use the utilities of the {@link Preconditions}
 *       class instead.

      thrownUnsafeFailure = unsafeFailure;
      // catch absolutely everything and fall through to our 'SafeAtomicHelper'
      // The access control checks that ARFU does means the caller class has to be AbstractFuture
      // instead of SafeAtomicHelper, so we annoyingly define these here
      try {
        helper =
            new SafeAtomicHelper(

        // ignore
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Cleans up the given reference and any other references already in the queue. Catches and logs
   * all throwables.
   *
   * @return true if the caller should continue to wait for more references to be added to the
   *     queue, false if the associated FinalizableReferenceQueue is no longer referenced.
   */
  private boolean cleanUp(Reference<?> firstReference) {

         * processes one artifact at a time and hence cannot associate the artifacts from the same project to use the
         * same timestamp+buildno for the snapshot versions. Allowing the caller to pass in metadata from a previous
         * deployment allows to re-establish the association between the artifacts of the same project.
         */
        for (Metadata metadata : request.getMetadata()) {

        SmbInfoAllocation info = new SmbInfoAllocation();
        
        // Read total allocation units.
        info.alloc = readInt8( buffer, bufferIndex );
        bufferIndex += 8;
        
        // read caller available allocation units 
        info.free = readInt8( buffer, bufferIndex );
        bufferIndex += 8;

        // skip actual free units
        bufferIndex += 8;
        

     */
    @Nullable
    Path getPath();

    /**
     * Creates a new byte stream to the source contents.
     * Closing the returned stream is the responsibility of the caller.
     *
     * @return a byte stream to the source contents, never {@code null}
     * @throws IOException in case of IO issue
     */
    @Nonnull
    InputStream openStream() throws IOException;

    /**

 * Iterator#remove} operations. This utility takes the brute-force approach of trying <i>all</i>
 * possible sequences of these operations, up to a given number of steps. So, if the caller
 * specifies to use <i>n</i> steps, a total of <i>3^n</i> tests are actually performed.
 *
 * <p>For instance, if <i>steps</i> is 5, one example sequence that will be tested is:
 *
 * <ol>
 *   <li>remove();