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.
For example, you may serialize the following tree
1
/ \
2 3
/ \
4 5
as"[1,2,3,null,null,4,5]"
, just the same ashow LeetCode OJ 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; }
* }
*/
public class Codec {
final String spliter = ",";
final String NN = "#";
// Encodes a tree to a single string.
public String serialize(TreeNode root) {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
buildString(root, sb);
return sb.toString();
}
private void buildString(TreeNode root, StringBuilder sb){
if (root == null){
sb.append(NN).append(spliter);
}
else{
sb.append(root.val + "").append(spliter);
this.buildString(root.left, sb);
this.buildString(root.right, sb);
}
}
// Decodes your encoded data to tree.
public TreeNode deserialize(String data) {
Queue<String> q = new LinkedList<>();
q.addAll(Arrays.asList(data.split(spliter)));
return buildTree(q);
}
private TreeNode buildTree(Queue<String> q){
String val = q.poll();
if (val.equals(NN)) return null;
TreeNode node = new TreeNode(Integer.valueOf(val));
node.left = buildTree(q);
node.right = buildTree(q);
return node;
}
}
// Your Codec object will be instantiated and called as such:
// Codec codec = new Codec();
// codec.deserialize(codec.serialize(root));