* @return the current column number
     */
    int getColumnNumber();

    /**
     * Return the byte or character offset into the input source this location
     * is pointing to. If the input source is a file or a byte stream then
     * this is the byte offset into that stream, but if the input source is
     * a character media then the offset is the character offset.
     * Returns -1 if there is no offset available.

 * specific language governing permissions and limitations
 * under the License.
 */
package org.apache.maven.configuration;

/**
 * Preprocesses a value from a bean configuration before the bean configurator unmarshals it into a bean property. A
 * common use case for such preprocessing is the evaluation of variables within the configuration value.
 *
 */
public interface BeanConfigurationValuePreprocessor {

    /**

/**
 * Handles expansion of general build plugin configuration into individual executions.
 *
 * @deprecated use {@code org.apache.maven.api.services.ModelBuilder} instead
 */
@Deprecated(since = "4.0.0")
public interface PluginConfigurationExpander {

    /**
     * Merges values from general build plugin configuration into the individual plugin executions of the given model.
     *

/**
 * An object that converts literal text into a format safe for inclusion in a particular context
 * (such as an XML document). Typically (but not always), the inverse process of "unescaping" the
 * text is performed automatically by the relevant parser.
 *
 * <p>For example, an XML escaper would convert the literal string {@code "Foo<Bar>"} into {@code

/* Noto Color Emoji for emoji support with the same font everywhere */
@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Noto+Color+Emoji&display=swap);

/* Override default code font in Material for MkDocs to Fira Code */
:root {
    --md-code-font: "Fira Code", monospace, "Noto Color Emoji";
}

/* Override default regular font in Material for MkDocs to include Noto Color Emoji */
:root {

an organization that produces free electronic books, mostly of
works old enough that they have passed into the public domain.


                            CHAPTER I

                      Down the Rabbit-Hole


  Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister
on the bank, and of having nothing to do:  once or twice she had
peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no

 *
 * For a particular application plugin there will be a declarative descriptor for that plugin type.
 *
 * - nexus - the plugin class - UI to contribute - what JS to hook into the UI - what resources to
 * load into the UI - having packed or unpacked plugins, and positioning resources if necessary -
 * maven can work out of the classloader, nexus plugins probably couldn't give the js and image
 * resources
 *

 * i.e. <code>reportPlugins</code> and <code>outputDirectory</code> parameters.
 *
 * @deprecated since maven 4.0, this interface is not used anymore and is only here for compatibility
 */
@Deprecated
public interface ReportingConverter {

    /**
     * Converts values from model's reporting section into the configuration for Maven Site Plugin 3.x.

  }

  /**
   * Copies an iterable's elements into an array.
   *
   * @param iterable the iterable to copy
   * @return a newly-allocated array into which all the elements of the iterable have been copied
   */
  static @Nullable Object[] toArray(Iterable<?> iterable) {
    return castOrCopyToCollection(iterable).toArray();
  }

  /**
   * Converts an iterable into a collection. If the iterable is already a collection, it is

 *
 * @author mbechler
 */
public interface Encodable {

    /**
     * Encodes this object into the specified byte array.
     *
     * @param dst the destination byte array to encode into
     * @param dstIndex the starting index in the destination array
     * @return encoded length
     */
    int encode(byte[] dst, int dstIndex);

    /**