@Experimental
public interface ArtifactFactory extends Service {

    /**
     * Creates an artifact.
     *
     * @param request the request holding artifact creation parameters
     * @return an {@code Artifact}, never {@code null}
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if {@code request} is null or {@code request.session} is null or invalid
     */
    @Nonnull
    Artifact create(@Nonnull ArtifactFactoryRequest request);

    @Nonnull

            "lineInterpolation": "linear",
            "lineWidth": 1,
            "pointSize": 5,
            "scaleDistribution": {
              "type": "linear"
            },
            "showPoints": "never",
            "spanNulls": false,
            "stacking": {
              "group": "A",
              "mode": "none"
            },
            "thresholdsStyle": {
              "mode": "off"
            }

    /**
     * Gets the message that describes this problem.
     *
     * @return The message describing this problem, never {@code null}.
     */
    String getMessage();

    /**
     * Gets the severity level of this problem.
     *
     * @return The severity level of this problem, never {@code null}.
     */
    Severity getSeverity();

    /**
     * Gets the message that describes this problem.
     *
     * @return the message describing this problem, never {@code null}
     */
    @Nonnull
    String getMessage();

    /**
     * Gets the severity level of this problem.
     *
     * @return the severity level of this problem, never {@code null}
     */
    @Nonnull
    Severity getSeverity();

    /**

    /**
     * Creates a user-friendly source hint for the specified model.
     *
     * @param model The model to create a source hint for, may be {@code null}.
     * @return The user-friendly source hint, never {@code null}.
     */
    static String toSourceHint(Model model) {
        if (model == null) {
            return "";
        }

        StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder(128);

 */
@Deprecated(since = "4.0.0")
public interface SettingsBuildingResult {

    /**
     * Gets the assembled settings.
     *
     * @return The assembled settings, never {@code null}.
     */
    Settings getEffectiveSettings();

    /**
     * Gets the problems that were encountered during the settings building. Note that only problems of severity

     *  XPath namespace prefixes are resolved from the contextNode.
     *
     *  @param contextNode The node to start searching from.
     *  @param expression A valid XPath string.
     *  @return A XPathNodes, should never be null.
     *
     * @throws XPathExpressionException
     */
    public XPathNodes selectNodeList(final Node contextNode, final String expression) throws XPathExpressionException {

     * terminated by a trailing slash.
     *
     * @return The base URL of the repository or an empty string if unknown, never {@code null}.
     */
    String getRepositoryUrl();

    /**
     * The path of the artifact relative to the repository's base URL.
     *
     * @return The path of the artifact, never {@code null}.
     */
    String getName();

    /**
     * Gets the full URL of the artifact.
     *

   * value for which {@link Comparable#compareTo(Object)} never returns a positive value for any
   * input of type {@code C}.
   *
   * <p>The default implementation throws {@code NoSuchElementException}.
   *
   * @return the minimum value of type {@code C}; never null
   * @throws NoSuchElementException if the type has no (practical) minimum value; for example,

     * Gets the decrypted proxies.
     *
     * @return The decrypted proxy, can be empty but never {@code null}.
     */
    List<Proxy> getProxies();

    /**
     * Gets the problems that were encountered during the settings decryption.
     *
     * @return The problems that were encountered during the decryption, can be empty but never {@code null}.
     */
    List<SettingsProblem> getProblems();