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+package org.apache.lucene.index;
+
+/**
+ * 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.Collection;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.store.Directory;
+
+/**
+ * <p>Expert: represents a single commit into an index as seen by the
+ * {@link IndexDeletionPolicy} or {@link IndexReader}.</p>
+ *
+ * <p> Changes to the content of an index are made visible
+ * only after the writer who made that change commits by
+ * writing a new segments file
+ * (<code>segments_N</code>). This point in time, when the
+ * action of writing of a new segments file to the directory
+ * is completed, is an index commit.</p>
+ *
+ * <p>Each index commit point has a unique segments file
+ * associated with it. The segments file associated with a
+ * later index commit point would have a larger N.</p>
+ *
+ * @lucene.experimental
+*/
+
+public abstract class IndexCommit implements Comparable<IndexCommit> {
+
+ /**
+ * Get the segments file (<code>segments_N</code>) associated
+ * with this commit point.
+ */
+ public abstract String getSegmentsFileName();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns all index files referenced by this commit point.
+ */
+ public abstract Collection<String> getFileNames() throws IOException;
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the {@link Directory} for the index.
+ */
+ public abstract Directory getDirectory();
+
+ /**
+ * Delete this commit point. This only applies when using
+ * the commit point in the context of IndexWriter's
+ * IndexDeletionPolicy.
+ * <p>
+ * Upon calling this, the writer is notified that this commit
+ * point should be deleted.
+ * <p>
+ * Decision that a commit-point should be deleted is taken by the {@link IndexDeletionPolicy} in effect
+ * and therefore this should only be called by its {@link IndexDeletionPolicy#onInit onInit()} or
+ * {@link IndexDeletionPolicy#onCommit onCommit()} methods.
+ */
+ public abstract void delete();
+
+ public abstract boolean isDeleted();
+
+ /** Returns number of segments referenced by this commit. */
+ public abstract int getSegmentCount();
+
+ /** Two IndexCommits are equal if both their Directory and versions are equal. */
+ @Override
+ public boolean equals(Object other) {
+ if (other instanceof IndexCommit) {
+ IndexCommit otherCommit = (IndexCommit) other;
+ return otherCommit.getDirectory().equals(getDirectory()) && otherCommit.getVersion() == getVersion();
+ } else
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public int hashCode() {
+ return (int) (getDirectory().hashCode() + getVersion());
+ }
+
+ /** Returns the version for this IndexCommit. This is the
+ * same value that {@link IndexReader#getVersion} would
+ * return if it were opened on this commit. */
+ public abstract long getVersion();
+
+ /** Returns the generation (the _N in segments_N) for this
+ * IndexCommit */
+ public abstract long getGeneration();
+
+ /** Convenience method that returns the last modified time
+ * of the segments_N file corresponding to this index
+ * commit, equivalent to
+ * getDirectory().fileModified(getSegmentsFileName()). */
+ public long getTimestamp() throws IOException {
+ return getDirectory().fileModified(getSegmentsFileName());
+ }
+
+ /** Returns userData, previously passed to {@link
+ * IndexWriter#commit(Map)} for this commit. Map is
+ * String -> String. */
+ public abstract Map<String,String> getUserData() throws IOException;
+
+ public int compareTo(IndexCommit commit) {
+ long gen = getGeneration();
+ long comgen = commit.getGeneration();
+ if (gen < comgen) {
+ return -1;
+ } else if (gen > comgen) {
+ return 1;
+ } else {
+ return 0;
+ }
+ }
+
+}