285. Inorder Successor in BST

Given a binary search tree and a node in it, find the in-order successor of that node in the BST.

Note: If the given node has no in-order successor in the tree, return null.

第一种方法可以是中序遍历二叉搜索树，记录prevnode，如果等于p，记录当前的node。代码如下：

/**
 * Definition for a binary tree node.
 * public class TreeNode {
 *     int val;
 *     TreeNode left;
 *     TreeNode right;
 *     TreeNode(int x) { val = x; }
 * }
 */
public class Solution {
    public TreeNode inorderSuccessor(TreeNode root, TreeNode p) {
        Stack<TreeNode> stack = new Stack<TreeNode>();
        TreeNode res = null;
        TreeNode prev = null;
        while (root != null || !stack.isEmpty()) {
            while (root != null) {
                stack.push(root);
                root = root.left;
            }
            root = stack.pop();
            if (prev != null && prev == p) {
                res = root;
                break;
            }
            prev = root;
            root = root.right;
        }
        return res;
    }
}

第二种方法根据二叉搜索树的性质解题。代码如下：

Successor

public TreeNode successor(TreeNode root, TreeNode p) {
  if (root == null)
    return null;

  if (root.val <= p.val) {
    return successor(root.right, p);
  } else {
    TreeNode left = successor(root.left, p);
    return (left != null) ? left : root;
  }
}

Predecessor

public TreeNode predecessor(TreeNode root, TreeNode p) {
  if (root == null)
    return null;

  if (root.val >= p.val) {
    return predecessor(root.left, p);
  } else {
    TreeNode right = predecessor(root.right, p);
    return (right != null) ? right : root;
  }
}