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+package org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.processors;
+
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.QueryNodeException;
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.nodes.BooleanQueryNode;
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.nodes.BoostQueryNode;
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.nodes.DeletedQueryNode;
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.nodes.MatchNoDocsQueryNode;
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.nodes.ModifierQueryNode;
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.nodes.QueryNode;
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.nodes.TokenizedPhraseQueryNode;
+
+/**
+ * <p>
+ * A {@link NoChildOptimizationQueryNodeProcessor} removes every
+ * BooleanQueryNode, BoostQueryNode, TokenizedPhraseQueryNode or
+ * ModifierQueryNode that do not have a valid children.
+ * </p>
+ * <p>
+ * Example: When the children of these nodes are removed for any reason then the
+ * nodes may become invalid.
+ * </p>
+ */
+public class NoChildOptimizationQueryNodeProcessor extends
+ QueryNodeProcessorImpl {
+
+ public NoChildOptimizationQueryNodeProcessor() {
+ // empty constructor
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ protected QueryNode postProcessNode(QueryNode node) throws QueryNodeException {
+
+ if (node instanceof BooleanQueryNode || node instanceof BoostQueryNode
+ || node instanceof TokenizedPhraseQueryNode
+ || node instanceof ModifierQueryNode) {
+
+ List<QueryNode> children = node.getChildren();
+
+ if (children != null && children.size() > 0) {
+
+ for (QueryNode child : children) {
+
+ if (!(child instanceof DeletedQueryNode)) {
+ return node;
+ }
+
+ }
+
+ }
+
+ return new MatchNoDocsQueryNode();
+
+ }
+
+ return node;
+
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ protected QueryNode preProcessNode(QueryNode node) throws QueryNodeException {
+
+ return node;
+
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ protected List<QueryNode> setChildrenOrder(List<QueryNode> children)
+ throws QueryNodeException {
+
+ return children;
+
+ }
+
+}