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using System;

namespace Lucene.Net.Index
{
	
	/// <summary> <p>Expert: policy for deletion of stale {@link IndexCommitPoint index commits}. 
	/// 
	/// <p>Implement this interface, and pass it to one
	/// of the {@link IndexWriter} or {@link IndexReader}
	/// constructors, to customize when older
	/// {@link IndexCommitPoint point-in-time commits}
	/// are deleted from the index directory.  The default deletion policy
	/// is {@link KeepOnlyLastCommitDeletionPolicy}, which always
	/// removes old commits as soon as a new commit is done (this
	/// matches the behavior before 2.2).</p>
	/// 
	/// <p>One expected use case for this (and the reason why it
	/// was first created) is to work around problems with an
	/// index directory accessed via filesystems like NFS because
	/// NFS does not provide the "delete on last close" semantics
	/// that Lucene's "point in time" search normally relies on.
	/// By implementing a custom deletion policy, such as "a
	/// commit is only removed once it has been stale for more
	/// than X minutes", you can give your readers time to
	/// refresh to the new commit before {@link IndexWriter}
	/// removes the old commits.  Note that doing so will
	/// increase the storage requirements of the index.  See <a
	/// target="top"
	/// href="http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-710">LUCENE-710</a>
	/// for details.</p>
	/// </summary>
	
	public interface IndexDeletionPolicy
	{
		
		/// <summary> <p>This is called once when a writer is first
		/// instantiated to give the policy a chance to remove old
		/// commit points.</p>
		/// 
		/// <p>The writer locates all index commits present in the 
		/// index directory and calls this method.  The policy may 
		/// choose to delete some of the commit points, doing so by
		/// calling method {@link IndexCommitPoint#delete delete()} 
		/// of {@link IndexCommitPoint}.</p>
		/// 
		/// <p><u>Note:</u> the last CommitPoint is the most recent one,
		/// i.e. the "front index state". Be careful not to delete it,
		/// unless you know for sure what you are doing, and unless 
		/// you can afford to lose the index content while doing that. 
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="commits">List of current 
		/// {@link IndexCommitPoint point-in-time commits},
		/// sorted by age (the 0th one is the oldest commit).
		/// </param>
		void  OnInit(System.Collections.IList commits);
		
		/// <summary> <p>This is called each time the writer completed a commit.
		/// This gives the policy a chance to remove old commit points
		/// with each commit.</p>
		/// 
		/// <p>The policy may now choose to delete old commit points 
		/// by calling method {@link IndexCommitPoint#delete delete()} 
		/// of {@link IndexCommitPoint}.</p>
		/// 
		/// <p>If writer has <code>autoCommit = true</code> then
		/// this method will in general be called many times during
		/// one instance of {@link IndexWriter}.  If
		/// <code>autoCommit = false</code> then this method is
		/// only called once when {@link IndexWriter#close} is
		/// called, or not at all if the {@link IndexWriter#abort}
		/// is called. 
		/// 
		/// <p><u>Note:</u> the last CommitPoint is the most recent one,
		/// i.e. the "front index state". Be careful not to delete it,
		/// unless you know for sure what you are doing, and unless 
		/// you can afford to lose the index content while doing that.
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="commits">List of {@link IndexCommitPoint},
		/// sorted by age (the 0th one is the oldest commit).
		/// </param>
		void  OnCommit(System.Collections.IList commits);
	}
}