Serialization is the process of converting a data structure or object into a sequence of bits so that it can be stored in a file or memory buffer, or transmitted across a network connection link to be reconstructed later in the same or another computer environment.
Design an algorithm to serialize and deserialize a binary tree. There is no restriction on how your serialization/deserialization algorithm should work. You just need to ensure that a binary tree can be serialized to a string and this string can be deserialized to the original tree structure.
Example:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
You may serialize the following tree:
1 / \ 2 3 / \ 4 5
as "[1,2,3,null,null,4,5]"
Clarification: The above format is the same as how LeetCode serializes a binary tree. You do not necessarily need to follow this format, so please be creative and come up with different approaches yourself.
Note: Do not use class member/global/static variables to store states. Your serialize and deserialize algorithms should be stateless.
/** * Definition for a binary tree node. * public class TreeNode { * int val; * TreeNode left; * TreeNode right; * TreeNode(int x) { val = x; } * } */ publicclassCodec{
// Encodes a tree to a single string. public String serialize(TreeNode root){ StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); tree2String(root, sb); return sb.toString(); } privatevoidtree2String(TreeNode node, StringBuilder sb){ if (node == null) { sb.append("#").append(" "); return; } sb.append(node.val).append(" "); tree2String(node.left, sb); tree2String(node.right, sb); }
// Decodes your encoded data to tree. public TreeNode deserialize(String data){ Deque<String> nodes = new LinkedList<>(); nodes.addAll(Arrays.asList(data.split(" "))); return string2Tree(nodes); } private TreeNode string2Tree(Deque<String> nodes){ String val = nodes.remove(); if (val.equals("#")) { returnnull; } TreeNode node = new TreeNode(Integer.valueOf(val)); node.left = string2Tree(nodes); node.right = string2Tree(nodes); return node; } }
// Your Codec object will be instantiated and called as such: // Codec codec = new Codec(); // codec.deserialize(codec.serialize(root));