* class paths or module paths.
 * <p>
 * For example, the type {@code java-source} has a {@code jar} extension and a
 * {@code sources} classifier. The artifact and its dependencies should be added
 * to the build path.
 *
 * @since 4.0.0
 */
@Experimental
@Immutable
public interface Type extends ExtensibleEnum {
    /**
     * Artifact type name for a POM file.
     */

     * @param sids
     *            The SIDs that should be resolved. After this function is called, the names associated with the SIDs
     *            may be queried with the <code>toDisplayString</code>, <code>getDomainName</code>, and <code>getAccountName</code>
     *            methods.
     * @throws CIFSException if there is an error resolving the SIDs
     */

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import jcifs.CIFSContext;

/**
 * A <code>URLStreamHandler</code> used to provide NTLM authentication
 * capabilities to the default HTTP handler. This acts as a wrapper,
 * handling authentication and passing control to the underlying
 * stream handler.
 *

The zoneinfo.zip archive contains time zone files compiled using
the code and data maintained as part of the IANA Time Zone Database.
The IANA asserts that the database is in the public domain.

For more information, see
https://www.iana.org/time-zones
ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/code/tz-link.html
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6557

     *
     * @param artifact           artifact we are interested in. Only <code>groupid</code> and <code>artifactId</code>
     *                           are needed, for instance the following code will work
     *                           <code>artifactFactory.createProjectArtifact( "org.apache.maven", "maven", "" )</code>
     * @param localRepository    local repository

 * <i>implemented</i>, the design of the {@code Multimap} API is based on the <i>second</i> form.
 * So, using the multimap shown above as an example, the {@link #size} is {@code 3}, not {@code 2},
 * and the {@link #values} collection is {@code [1, 2, 3]}, not {@code [[1, 2], [3]]}. For those
 * times when the first style is more useful, use the multimap's {@link #asMap} view (or create a
 * {@code Map<K, Collection<V>>} in the first place).
 *

  }

  /**
   * Returns a string, of length at least {@code minLength}, consisting of {@code string} appended
   * with as many copies of {@code padChar} as are necessary to reach that length. For example,
   *
   * <ul>
   *   <li>{@code padEnd("4.", 5, '0')} returns {@code "4.000"}
   *   <li>{@code padEnd("2010", 3, '!')} returns {@code "2010"}
   * </ul>
   *

    /**
     * @return a <code>Settings</code> object from the user settings file.
     * @throws IOException if any
     * @throws XmlPullParserException if any
     */
    Settings buildSettings() throws IOException, XmlPullParserException;

    /**
     * @param useCachedSettings if true, doesn't reload the user settings
     * @return a <code>Settings</code> object from the user settings file.

 * Outer class that exists solely to let us write {@code Partially.GwtIncompatible} instead of plain
 * {@code GwtIncompatible}. This is more accurate for {@link Futures#catching}, which is available
 * under GWT but with a slightly different signature.
 *
 * <p>We can't use {@code PartiallyGwtIncompatible} because then the GWT compiler wouldn't recognize
 * it as a {@code GwtIncompatible} annotation. And for {@code Futures.catching}, we need the GWT

     * If this method returns <code>null</code> the <code>SmbAuthException</code> that triggered the authenticator check will simply be rethrown. The default implementation returns <code>null</code>.
     * @return the authentication credentials or null if none available
     */