} else if (isDigit) {
            buf = stripLeadingZeroes(buf);
            if (buf.length() <= MAX_INTITEM_LENGTH) {
                // lower than 2^31
                return new IntItem(buf);
            } else if (buf.length() <= MAX_LONGITEM_LENGTH) {
                // lower than 2^63
                return new LongItem(buf);
            }
            return new BigIntegerItem(buf);
        }

    /**
     * Module information for the path specified at construction time.
     * This map is usually either empty if no module was found, or a singleton map.
     * It may however contain more than one entry if module hierarchy was detected,
     * in which case there is one key per sub-directory.
     *
     * <p>This map may contain null values if the constructor was invoked with {@code resolve}

                     */
                    type = cache.selectPathType(pathTypes, filter, path).orElse(type);
                }
                addPathElement(type, info.getKey());
                // There is usually no more than one element, but nevertheless allow multi-modules.
            }
            /*
             * If the dependency has no module information, search for an artifact of the same groupId

            throw new ChecksumFailedException(message, cause);
        } else if (!ArtifactRepositoryPolicy.CHECKSUM_POLICY_IGNORE.equals(checksumPolicy)) {
            // warn if it is set to anything other than ignore
            logger.warn("*** CHECKSUM FAILED - " + message + " - IGNORING");
        }
        // otherwise it is ignore
    }

    private void verifyChecksum(

                     */
                    type = cache.selectPathType(pathTypes, filter, path).orElse(type);
                }
                addPathElement(type, info.getKey());
                // There is usually no more than one element, but nevertheless allow multi-modules.
            }
            /*
             * If the dependency has no module information, search for an artifact of the same groupId

     * <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
     * point at the POM rather than its base directory if the path ends with ".xml" (ignoring case)</li>
     * <li>The name of the child's base directory matches the artifact id of the child.</li>
     * </ul>
     * Note that for the sake of independence from the user

the pre-digested format that Mercury could utilize to resolve and retrieve dependencies. We need to be careful that we are using Mercury during development and production so that we don’t get in the situation where Maven 2.x is resolving differently than Mercury is. We can still leverage POMs during development but we need to make sure Mercury is doing the work.

With respect to development inside an IDE the workspace from which we would like to resolve and retrieve dependencies is a read-only...