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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.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.QueryNodeException;
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.nodes.DeletedQueryNode;
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.nodes.MatchNoDocsQueryNode;
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.nodes.QueryNode;
+
+/**
+ * A {@link QueryNodeProcessorPipeline} class removes every instance of
+ * {@link DeletedQueryNode} from a query node tree. If the resulting root node
+ * is a {@link DeletedQueryNode}, {@link MatchNoDocsQueryNode} is returned.
+ *
+ */
+public class RemoveDeletedQueryNodesProcessor extends QueryNodeProcessorImpl {
+
+ public RemoveDeletedQueryNodesProcessor() {
+ // empty constructor
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public QueryNode process(QueryNode queryTree) throws QueryNodeException {
+ queryTree = super.process(queryTree);
+
+ if (queryTree instanceof DeletedQueryNode
+ && !(queryTree instanceof MatchNoDocsQueryNode)) {
+
+ return new MatchNoDocsQueryNode();
+
+ }
+
+ return queryTree;
+
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ protected QueryNode postProcessNode(QueryNode node) throws QueryNodeException {
+
+ if (!node.isLeaf()) {
+ List<QueryNode> children = node.getChildren();
+ boolean removeBoolean = false;
+
+ if (children == null || children.size() == 0) {
+ removeBoolean = true;
+
+ } else {
+ removeBoolean = true;
+
+ for (Iterator<QueryNode> it = children.iterator(); it.hasNext();) {
+
+ if (!(it.next() instanceof DeletedQueryNode)) {
+ removeBoolean = false;
+ break;
+
+ }
+
+ }
+
+ }
+
+ if (removeBoolean) {
+ return new DeletedQueryNode();
+ }
+
+ }
+
+ return node;
+
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ protected List<QueryNode> setChildrenOrder(List<QueryNode> children)
+ throws QueryNodeException {
+
+ for (int i = 0; i < children.size(); i++) {
+
+ if (children.get(i) instanceof DeletedQueryNode) {
+ children.remove(i--);
+ }
+
+ }
+
+ return children;
+
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ protected QueryNode preProcessNode(QueryNode node) throws QueryNodeException {
+
+ return node;
+
+ }
+
+}