leetcode 99. Recover Binary Search Tree
复习数据结构:二叉查找树
/**
* Definition for a binary tree node.
* public class TreeNode {
* int val;
* TreeNode left;
* TreeNode right;
* TreeNode(int x) { val = x; }
* }
*/
public class Solution {
TreeNode firstElement = null;
TreeNode secondElement = null;
// The reason for this initialization is to avoid null pointer exception in the first comparison when prevElement has not been initialized
TreeNode prevElement = new TreeNode(Integer.MIN_VALUE);
public void recoverTree(TreeNode root) {
// In order traversal to find the two elements
traverse(root);
// Swap the values of the two nodes
int temp = firstElement.val;
firstElement.val = secondElement.val;
secondElement.val = temp;
}
private void traverse(TreeNode root) {
if (root == null)
return;
traverse(root.left);
// Start of "do some business",
// If first element has not been found, assign it to prevElement (refer to 6 in the example above)
if (firstElement == null && prevElement.val >= root.val) {
firstElement = prevElement;
}
// If first element is found, assign the second element to the root (refer to 2 in the example above)
if (firstElement != null && prevElement.val >= root.val) {
secondElement = root;
}
prevElement = root;
// End of "do some business"
traverse(root.right);
}
}