Serialize and Deserialize Binary Tree

/**
 * Definition for a binary tree node.
 * struct TreeNode {
 *     int val;
 *     TreeNode *left;
 *     TreeNode *right;
 *     TreeNode(int x) : val(x), left(NULL), right(NULL) {}
 * };
 */
class Codec {
private:
    string ans;
    string null="null";
    TreeNode *root=NULL;
    void makeTree(string &data,int &i,TreeNode* &root){// TreeNode* &中，&不能少
        string item;// item="" 而不是NULL
        while(data[i]!=' ' && i<data.size()) item+=data[i++];
        if(item==null) return;
        stringstream ss;
        int val;
        ss<<item;
        ss>>val;
        root =new TreeNode(val);
        makeTree(data,++i,root->left);//++i 空格跳过
        makeTree(data,++i,root->right);// ++i 空格跳过
    }

public:
    // Encodes a tree to a single string.
    string serialize(TreeNode* root) {
        stringstream ss;
        string str;
        if(ans!="") ans+=' ';
        if(root==NULL){
            ans+=null;
            return ans;
        }
        ss<<root->val;
        ss>>str;
        ans+=str;
        serialize(root->left);
        serialize(root->right);
        return ans;
    }

    // Decodes your encoded data to tree.
    TreeNode* deserialize(string data) {
       int i=0;
       makeTree(data,i,root);// 不能直接写成makeTree(data,0,root);
       return root;
    }
};

// Your Codec object will be instantiated and called as such:
// Codec codec;
// codec.deserialize(codec.serialize(root));