public static ICollection <T> Synchronized(LinkedDeque <T> list)
{
return(new SynchronizedCollection(list));
}
/// <inheritdoc />
public override bool Remove(T value)
{
/*
* Udemy courses sometimes contains garbage! the previous code was wrong or contains
* at least 2 bugs! Avoid the following implementations for BST or AVL trees:
* Buggy: Master the Coding Interview Data Structures + Algorithms - Andrei Neagoie.
* Less than optimal: Mastering Data Structures & Algorithms using C and C++ - Abdul Bari
*
* This one is much better but with a small modification because it contains a bug as well
* for not handling leaf nodes.
* https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/binary-search-tree-set-3-iterative-delete/?ref=rp
*/
if (Root == null)
{
return(false);
}
LinkedBinaryNode <T> parent = null, node = null, next = Root;
// the deque has the same effect as the recursive call but only it's iterative now
// will need to use a deque or a linked list instead of the stack because of swap in case 3
LinkedDeque <LinkedBinaryNode <T> > deque = new LinkedDeque <LinkedBinaryNode <T> >();
// find the node. as a general rule: whenever a node's left or right changes, it will be pushed to get updated
while (next != null)
{
int order = Comparer.Compare(value, next.Value);
if (order == 0)
{
node = next;
break;
}
parent = next;
deque.Push(parent);
next = order < 0
? next.Left
: next.Right;
}
if (node == null)
{
return(false);
}
// case 1: node has no children
if (node.IsLeaf)
{
if (parent == null)
{
Root = null;
}
else
{
if (ReferenceEquals(parent.Left, node))
{
parent.Left = null;
}
else
{
parent.Right = null;
}
}
}
// case 2: node has one child
else if (node.HasOneChild)
{
LinkedBinaryNode <T> newNode = node.Left ?? node.Right;
if (parent == null)
{
Root = newNode;
}
else
{
if (ReferenceEquals(parent.Left, node))
{
parent.Left = newNode;
}
else
{
parent.Right = newNode;
}
}
}
// case 3: node has 2 children
else
{
// find the right child's left most child (successor)
LinkedBinaryNode <T> leftMostParent = null;
LinkedBinaryNode <T> successor = node.Right;
while (successor.Left != null)
{
leftMostParent = successor;
deque.Push(leftMostParent);
successor = successor.Left;
}
/*
* if there is a left-most for the node's right node, then
* move its right to its parent's left.
*/
if (leftMostParent != null)
{
leftMostParent.Left = successor.Right;
// insert the node because it will be swapped later with the successor
if (parent != null)
{
deque.PushBefore(parent, node);
}
else
{
deque.PushLast(node);
}
}
// Otherwise, move the successor's right to the node's right
else
{
node.Right = successor.Right;
deque.Push(node);
}
// swap the value with the successor
node.Swap(successor);
}
// update parents
while (deque.Count > 0)
{
node = deque.Pop();
SetHeight(node);
// check the balance
if (Math.Abs(node.BalanceFactor) <= BALANCE_FACTOR)
{
continue;
}
parent = deque.Count > 0
? deque.PeekTail()
: null;
bool isLeft = parent != null && ReferenceEquals(parent.Left, node);
node = Balance(node);
if (parent == null)
{
Root = node;
}
else
{
if (isLeft)
{
parent.Left = node;
}
else
{
parent.Right = node;
}
SetHeight(parent);
}
}
Count--;
_version++;
return(true);
}
internal SynchronizedCollection(LinkedDeque <T> deque)
{
_deque = deque;
_collection = deque;
_root = _collection.SyncRoot;
}