public static String toString(final BigDecimal dec) {
        return dec.toPlainString();
    }

    /**
     * Normalizes a {@link BigDecimal}.
     *
     * @param dec
     *            The {@link BigDecimal} to normalize
     * @return The normalized data
     */
    private static BigDecimal normalize(final BigDecimal dec) {
        return new BigDecimal(dec.toPlainString());
    }

import org.apache.maven.model.building.ModelBuildingRequest;

/**
 * Normalizes URLs to remove the ugly parent references "../" that got potentially inserted by URL adjustment during
 * model inheritance.
 *
 * @deprecated use {@code org.apache.maven.api.services.ModelBuilder} instead
 */
@Deprecated(since = "4.0.0")
public interface ModelUrlNormalizer {

    /**
     * Normalizes the well-known URLs of the specified model.
     *

     */
    public EncodingHelper() {
        // Default constructor
    }

    /**
     * Normalizes an encoding string to its preferred form.
     *
     * @param enc the encoding string to normalize
     * @return the normalized encoding or the default encoding if the input is blank
     */
    public String normalize(final String enc) {
        if (StringUtil.isBlank(enc)) {
            return defaultEncoding;
        }

            throw new MimeTypeException("Could not detect a content type.", e);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Normalizes the filename by replacing special characters.
     * @param filename The filename to normalize.
     * @return The normalized filename.
     */
    protected String normalizeFilename(final String filename) {
        if (StringUtil.isBlank(filename)) {
            return filename;

            this.spaceChars = spaceChars;
            return this;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Normalizes the text from the given Reader.
     *
     * @param reader the Reader from which to read the text to be normalized
     * @return a TextNormalizeContext containing the normalized text
     */
    public static TextNormalizeContext normalizeText(final Reader reader) {

    }

    @Override
    public void normalize(Model model, ModelBuildingRequest request) {
        if (model == null) {
            return;
        }

        model.setUrl(normalize(model.getUrl()));

        Scm scm = model.getScm();
        if (scm != null) {
            scm.setUrl(normalize(scm.getUrl()));
            scm.setConnection(normalize(scm.getConnection()));

            normalized = normalized.substring(0, normalized.length() - 1);
        }

        // Handle current directory references
        normalized = normalized.replace("\\.", "");
        normalized = normalized.replace(".\\", "");

        return normalized;
    }

    /**
     * Validate UNC path
     */

            return buf.toString();
        } catch (final UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            return path;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Normalizes a configuration path.
     *
     * @param path The path to normalize.
     * @return The normalized path.
     */
    public String normalizeConfigPath(final String path) {

        if (StringUtil.isBlank(path)) {
            return StringUtils.EMPTY;

            return ipv6Address;
        }

        // Normalize each part (remove leading zeros)
        final String[] normalized = new String[8];
        for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
            normalized[i] = parts[i].replaceFirst("^0+(?!$)", "");
            if (normalized[i].isEmpty()) {
                normalized[i] = "0";
            }
        }

import javax.inject.Named;
import javax.inject.Singleton;

/**
 * Normalizes a URL.
 *
 * @deprecated use {@code org.apache.maven.api.services.ModelBuilder} instead
 */
@Named
@Singleton
@Deprecated(since = "4.0.0")
public class DefaultUrlNormalizer implements UrlNormalizer {

    @Override
    public String normalize(String url) {
        String result = url;

        if (result != null) {