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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.io.IOException;
+
+/** A {@link MergeScheduler} that simply does each merge
+ * sequentially, using the current thread. */
+public class SerialMergeScheduler extends MergeScheduler {
+
+ /** Just do the merges in sequence. We do this
+ * "synchronized" so that even if the application is using
+ * multiple threads, only one merge may run at a time. */
+ @Override
+ synchronized public void merge(IndexWriter writer)
+ throws CorruptIndexException, IOException {
+
+ while(true) {
+ MergePolicy.OneMerge merge = writer.getNextMerge();
+ if (merge == null)
+ break;
+ writer.merge(merge);
+ }
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public void close() {}
+}