best practices when developing a Gradle plugin are to use lazy types (ConfigurableFileCollection, Provider API, domain object containers) when defining configurable parts of a plugin (tasks, extensions, domain objects).  The Provider API provides a consistent way to set conventions, wire related configuration together (extension <- domain object <- task) and avoid evaluation ordering problems.

The Gradle codebase has evolved over time and has a mixture of simple getter/setter methods, Provider...

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				}
			}
		}
	}

	// Pre-emptively check if one of the formatted disks
	// is invalid. This function returns success for the
	// most part unless one of the formats is not consistent
	// with expected Erasure format. For example if a user is
	// trying to pool FS backend into an Erasure set.
	if err = checkFormatErasureValues(formatConfigs, storageDisks, setDriveCount); err != nil {
		return nil, err

    }

    if (hasLowerBound && hasUpperBound) {
      int cmp =
          comparator.compare(
              uncheckedCastNullableTToT(lowerEndpoint), uncheckedCastNullableTToT(upperEndpoint));
      // be consistent with Range
      checkArgument(
          cmp <= 0, "lowerEndpoint (%s) > upperEndpoint (%s)", lowerEndpoint, upperEndpoint);
      if (cmp == 0) {
        checkArgument(lowerBoundType != OPEN || upperBoundType != OPEN);

 *
 * <p>Each of the {@code standard} methods uses the set's comparator (or the natural ordering of the
 * elements, if there is no comparator) to test element equality. As a result, if the comparator is
 * not consistent with equals, some of the standard implementations may violate the {@code Set}
 * contract.
 *
 * <p>The {@code standard} methods and the collection views they return are not guaranteed to be

 * {@link Comparator#compare} instead of {@link Object#equals} to determine equivalence of
 * instances.
 *
 * <p><b>Warning:</b> The comparators or comparables used must be <i>consistent with equals</i> as
 * explained by the {@link Comparable} class specification. Otherwise, the resulting multiset will
 * violate the general contract of {@link SetMultimap}, which is specified in terms of {@link
 * Object#equals}.

    }

    if (hasLowerBound && hasUpperBound) {
      int cmp =
          comparator.compare(
              uncheckedCastNullableTToT(lowerEndpoint), uncheckedCastNullableTToT(upperEndpoint));
      // be consistent with Range
      checkArgument(
          cmp <= 0, "lowerEndpoint (%s) > upperEndpoint (%s)", lowerEndpoint, upperEndpoint);
      if (cmp == 0) {
        checkArgument(lowerBoundType != OPEN || upperBoundType != OPEN);

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