How do I obtain a fully resolved Model of a pom file?

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This is basically a rephrasing of How can i programmaticaly build the effective model of a pom file?

I'm building a maven plugin that performs some validation rules against a set of modules. Those modules' pom files are available but they're not part of the reactor when the plugin is executed.

I can read a pom file and obtain the corresponding Model object using this method (removed exception handling for simplicity):

private Model pomToModel(String pathToPom) throws Exception {
    BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(pathToPom));
    MavenXpp3Reader reader = new MavenXpp3Reader();
    Model model = reader.read(in);
    return model;
}

And it works but the Model object has only the same information that the pom file has.

How can I improve that method so that I can obtain a "fully resolved" Model object? By fully resolved, I mean: with all the transitive dependencies and everything else from the parent poms.

Cheers!

How do I obtain a fully resolved Model of a pom file?

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