A kingdom consists of a king, his children, his grandchildren, and so on. Every once in a while, someone in the family dies or a child is born.
The kingdom has a well-defined order of inheritance that consists of the king as the
first member. Let's define the recursive function Successor(x,
curOrder), which given a person x and the inheritance order
so far, returns who should be the next person after x in the order of
inheritance.
Successor(x, curOrder):
if x has no children or all of x's children are in curOrder:
if x is the king return null
else return Successor(x's parent, curOrder)
else return x's oldest child who's not in curOrder
For example, assume we have a kingdom that consists of the king, his children Alice and Bob (Alice is older than Bob), and finally Alice's son Jack.
curOrder will be ["king"].Successor(king, curOrder) will return Alice, so we append
to curOrder to get ["king", "Alice"].
Successor(Alice, curOrder) will return Jack, so we append
to curOrder to get ["king", "Alice", "Jack"].
Successor(Jack, curOrder) will return Bob, so we append to
curOrder to get ["king", "Alice", "Jack", "Bob"].
Successor(Bob, curOrder) will return null.
Thus the order of inheritance will be ["king", "Alice", "Jack",
"Bob"].
Using the above function, we can always obtain a unique order of inheritance.
Implement the ThroneInheritance class:
ThroneInheritance(string kingName) Initializes an object of the
ThroneInheritance class. The name of the king is given as part of
the constructor.
void birth(string parentName, string childName) Indicates that
parentName gave birth to childName.
void death(string name) Indicates the death of name.
The death of the person doesn't affect the Successor function nor
the current inheritance order. You can treat it as just marking the person as
dead.
string[] getInheritanceOrder() Returns a list representing the
current order of inheritance excluding dead people.
Example 1:
Input
["ThroneInheritance", "birth", "birth", "birth", "birth", "birth", "birth", "getInheritanceOrder", "death", "getInheritanceOrder"]
[["king"], ["king", "andy"], ["king", "bob"], ["king", "catherine"], ["andy", "matthew"], ["bob", "alex"], ["bob", "asha"], [null], ["bob"], [null]]
Output
[null, null, null, null, null, null, null, ["king", "andy", "matthew", "bob", "alex", "asha", "catherine"], null, ["king", "andy", "matthew", "alex", "asha", "catherine"]]
Explanation
ThroneInheritance t= new ThroneInheritance("king"); // order: king
t.birth("king", "andy"); // order: king > andy
t.birth("king", "bob"); // order: king > andy > bob
t.birth("king", "catherine"); // order: king > andy > bob > catherine
t.birth("andy", "matthew"); // order: king > andy > matthew > bob > catherine
t.birth("bob", "alex"); // order: king > andy > matthew > bob > alex > catherine
t.birth("bob", "asha"); // order: king > andy > matthew > bob > alex > asha > catherine
t.getInheritanceOrder(); // return ["king", "andy", "matthew", "bob", "alex", "asha", "catherine"]
t.death("bob"); // order: king > andy > matthew > bob > alex > asha > catherine
t.getInheritanceOrder(); // return ["king", "andy", "matthew", "alex", "asha", "catherine"]
Constraints:
1 <= kingName.length, parentName.length, childName.length, name.length
<= 15kingName, parentName, childName, and
name consist of lowercase English letters only.
childName and kingName are distinct.
name arguments of death will be passed to either
the constructor or as childName to birth first.
birth(parentName, childName), it is
guaranteed that parentName is alive.
105 calls will be made to birth and
death.
10 calls will be made to getInheritanceOrder.