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package org.apache.maven.buildcache;

import org.apache.maven.model.Model;
import org.apache.maven.project.MavenProject;

/**
 * Calculate normalized model for project. The idea is to have model where not all properties resolved. In particular
 * ${project....} and ${pom....} replaced to some constant value. This helps to calculate correct checksum when changed
 * only project version for example build 1 : 1.0-SNAPSHOT, build 2 : 2.0-SNAPSHOT in this case 2nd build could be
 * completely restored from cache.
 */
public interface NormalizedModelProvider
{

    /**
     * @param project - the project which model will be calculated for
     * @return normalized model for project
     */
    Model normalizedModel( MavenProject project );

}