import org.apache.maven.api.services.ModelProblemCollector;

/**
 * Handles inheritance of model values.
 *
 */
public interface InheritanceAssembler {

    /**
     * Merges values from the specified parent model into the given child model. Implementations are expected to keep
     * parent and child completely decoupled by injecting deep copies of objects into the child rather than the original

     * <code>groupId:artifactId:version</code> the returned identifier need not be complete. The identifier is derived
     * from the information that is available at the point the problem occurs and as such merely serves as a best effort
     * to provide information to the user to track the problem back to its origin.
     *
     * @return The identifier of the model from which the problem originated or an empty string if unknown, never

     * of the child. The general idea is to adjust inherited URLs to match the project layout (in SCM).
     *
     * <p>This calculation is only a heuristic based on our conventions.
     * In detail, the algo relies on the following assumptions: <ul>
     * <li>The parent uses aggregation and refers to the child via the modules section</li>
     * <li>The module path to the child is considered to