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+package org.apache.lucene.util;
+
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
+
+/**
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * A convenient class which offers a semi-immutable object wrapper
+ * implementation which allows one to set the value of an object exactly once,
+ * and retrieve it many times. If {@link #set(Object)} is called more than once,
+ * {@link AlreadySetException} is thrown and the operation
+ * will fail.
+ *
+ * @lucene.experimental
+ */
+public final class SetOnce<T> {
+
+ /** Thrown when {@link SetOnce#set(Object)} is called more than once. */
+ public static final class AlreadySetException extends RuntimeException {
+ public AlreadySetException() {
+ super("The object cannot be set twice!");
+ }
+ }
+
+ private volatile T obj = null;
+ private final AtomicBoolean set;
+
+ /**
+ * A default constructor which does not set the internal object, and allows
+ * setting it by calling {@link #set(Object)}.
+ */
+ public SetOnce() {
+ set = new AtomicBoolean(false);
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Creates a new instance with the internal object set to the given object.
+ * Note that any calls to {@link #set(Object)} afterwards will result in
+ * {@link AlreadySetException}
+ *
+ * @throws AlreadySetException if called more than once
+ * @see #set(Object)
+ */
+ public SetOnce(T obj) {
+ this.obj = obj;
+ set = new AtomicBoolean(true);
+ }
+
+ /** Sets the given object. If the object has already been set, an exception is thrown. */
+ public final void set(T obj) {
+ if (set.compareAndSet(false, true)) {
+ this.obj = obj;
+ } else {
+ throw new AlreadySetException();
+ }
+ }
+
+ /** Returns the object set by {@link #set(Object)}. */
+ public final T get() {
+ return obj;
+ }
+}