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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.List;
+
+/**
+ * This {@link IndexDeletionPolicy} implementation that
+ * keeps only the most recent commit and immediately removes
+ * all prior commits after a new commit is done. This is
+ * the default deletion policy.
+ */
+
+public final class KeepOnlyLastCommitDeletionPolicy implements IndexDeletionPolicy {
+
+ /**
+ * Deletes all commits except the most recent one.
+ */
+ public void onInit(List<? extends IndexCommit> commits) {
+ // Note that commits.size() should normally be 1:
+ onCommit(commits);
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Deletes all commits except the most recent one.
+ */
+ public void onCommit(List<? extends IndexCommit> commits) {
+ // Note that commits.size() should normally be 2 (if not
+ // called by onInit above):
+ int size = commits.size();
+ for(int i=0;i<size-1;i++) {
+ commits.get(i).delete();
+ }
+ }
+}