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+package org.apache.lucene.queryParser.standard.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.LinkedList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.QueryNodeException;
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.nodes.GroupQueryNode;
+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.processors.QueryNodeProcessorImpl;
+
+/**
+ * This processor removes every {@link QueryNode} that is not a leaf and has not
+ * children. If after processing the entire tree the root node is not a leaf and
+ * has no children, a {@link MatchNoDocsQueryNode} object is returned. <br/>
+ * <br/>
+ * This processor is used at the end of a pipeline to avoid invalid query node
+ * tree structures like a {@link GroupQueryNode} or {@link ModifierQueryNode}
+ * with no children. <br/>
+ *
+ * @see QueryNode
+ * @see MatchNoDocsQueryNode
+ */
+public class RemoveEmptyNonLeafQueryNodeProcessor extends
+ QueryNodeProcessorImpl {
+
+ private LinkedList<QueryNode> childrenBuffer = new LinkedList<QueryNode>();
+
+ public RemoveEmptyNonLeafQueryNodeProcessor() {
+ // empty constructor
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public QueryNode process(QueryNode queryTree) throws QueryNodeException {
+ queryTree = super.process(queryTree);
+
+ if (!queryTree.isLeaf()) {
+
+ List<QueryNode> children = queryTree.getChildren();
+
+ if (children == null || children.size() == 0) {
+ return new MatchNoDocsQueryNode();
+ }
+
+ }
+
+ return queryTree;
+
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ protected QueryNode postProcessNode(QueryNode node) throws QueryNodeException {
+
+ return node;
+
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ protected QueryNode preProcessNode(QueryNode node) throws QueryNodeException {
+
+ return node;
+
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ protected List<QueryNode> setChildrenOrder(List<QueryNode> children)
+ throws QueryNodeException {
+
+ try {
+
+ for (QueryNode child : children) {
+
+ if (!child.isLeaf()) {
+
+ List<QueryNode> grandChildren = child.getChildren();
+
+ if (grandChildren != null && grandChildren.size() > 0) {
+ this.childrenBuffer.add(child);
+ }
+
+ } else {
+ this.childrenBuffer.add(child);
+ }
+
+ }
+
+ children.clear();
+ children.addAll(this.childrenBuffer);
+
+ } finally {
+ this.childrenBuffer.clear();
+ }
+
+ return children;
+
+ }
+
+}