}
    }

    public ArtifactMetadata(String groupId, String name, String version) {
        this(groupId, name, version, null);
    }

    public ArtifactMetadata(String groupId, String name, String version, String type) {
        this(groupId, name, version, type, null);
    }

     *
     * @param metadata the new metadata
     */
    void merge(ArtifactMetadata metadata);

    /**
     * Store the metadata in the local repository.
     * TODO this should only be needed on the repository metadata {@link org.apache.maven.artifact.metadata.ArtifactMetadata}
     *
     * @param localRepository  the local repository

/**
 * Contains metadata about an artifact, and methods to retrieve/store it from an artifact repository.
 */
@Deprecated
public interface ArtifactMetadata extends org.apache.maven.repository.legacy.metadata.ArtifactMetadata {
    void merge(ArtifactMetadata metadata);

    /** resolved MD  */
    private ArtifactMetadata artifactMetadata;

    /** repositories, added by this POM  */
    private Collection<ArtifactRepository> metadataRepositories;
    // -------------------------------------------------------------------
    public MetadataResolution(ArtifactMetadata artifactMetadata) {
        this.artifactMetadata = artifactMetadata;
    }

import org.apache.maven.artifact.ArtifactScopeEnum;

/**
 * classpath container that is aware of the classpath scope
 *
 *
 */
@Deprecated
public class ClasspathContainer implements Iterable<ArtifactMetadata> {
    private List<ArtifactMetadata> classpath;

    private ArtifactScopeEnum scope;

    // -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

         *   v1<
         *       v3-v4
         *
         */
        v1 = graph.addVertex(new ArtifactMetadata("g", "a1", "1.0"));
        graph.setEntry(v1);
        v2 = graph.addVertex(new ArtifactMetadata("g", "a2", "1.0"));
        v3 = graph.addVertex(new ArtifactMetadata("g", "a3", "1.0"));
        v4 = graph.addVertex(new ArtifactMetadata("g", "a4", "1.0"));

        // v1-->v2

    public MetadataResolutionRequest(
            ArtifactMetadata query, ArtifactRepository localRepository, List<ArtifactRepository> remoteRepositories) {
        this.query = query;
        this.localRepository = localRepository;
        this.remoteRepositories = remoteRepositories;
    }

    // --------------------------------------------------------------------
    public ArtifactMetadata getQuery() {
        return query;
    }

        return path.toString();
    }

    @Override
    public String pathOfLocalRepositoryMetadata(ArtifactMetadata metadata, ArtifactRepository repository) {
        return pathOfRepositoryMetadata(metadata, metadata.getLocalFilename(repository));
    }

    private String pathOfRepositoryMetadata(ArtifactMetadata metadata, String filename) {
        StringBuilder path = new StringBuilder(128);

        ArtifactMetadata metadata = createMetadata(artifact);

        artifact.addMetadata(metadata);
    }

    @Override
    public void transformForDeployment(
            Artifact artifact, ArtifactRepository remoteRepository, ArtifactRepository localRepository) {
        ArtifactMetadata metadata = createMetadata(artifact);

        artifact.addMetadata(metadata);

        this(message, cause, null);
    }

    public MetadataRetrievalException(String message, Throwable cause, ArtifactMetadata artifact) {
        super(message, cause);

        this.artifact = artifact;
    }

    public ArtifactMetadata getArtifactMetadata() {
        return artifact;
    }