CoordinateBuilder should set null for empty parts of G:A:P:C:V -------------------------------------------------------------- Key: FORGE-2230 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-2230 Project: Forge Issue Type: Enhancement Components: Dependencies Affects Versions: 2.14.0.Final Reporter: Ondrej Zizka CoordinateBuilder, when given "G:A:::V", should set P and C to null. Having them empty strings is no good. Consider machine-provided lists contaning: org.foo:foo-bar:::4.1.2 This should end with the same result as parsing org.foo:foo-bar:4.1.2 whereas it ends up with P and C set to empty strings, and forces the user of the api to do extra check for an empty string value. Related: "Malformed coordinate. Should be groupId:artifactId:[packaging]:[classifier]:[version]"); should read "Malformed coordinate. Should be groupId:artifactId:[packaging:[classifier:]][version]"); And javadoc's <groupId>:<artifactId>[:<packaging>[:<classifier>]]:<version> should read <groupId>:<artifactId>[:<packaging>[:<classifier>]]:[<version>]