Class BreadthFirstTopologicalIterator
Object
AbstractGraphIterator
BreadthFirstTopologicalIterator
- All Implemented Interfaces:
GraphIterator
- Direct Known Subclasses:
DepthFirstTopologicalIterator
Iterates over the nodes of a graph in Breadth First Topological Sort pattern. The following is an illustration
of the iteration.

Initially all nodes of degree less than two are active (ready to be visited). As nodes are visited, a node can become active when all but one of its related nodes have been visited ( degree = counter + 1). When a node becomes active it is placed into the active node queue (queue of nodes to be visited). The Breadth First Topological iterator places nodes into the queue in First In First Out order.
To determine when a node is to become active the iterator uses the counter associated with each node. If these counters are modified by an entity other then the iterator, the iteration may be affected in undefined ways.

Initially all nodes of degree less than two are active (ready to be visited). As nodes are visited, a node can become active when all but one of its related nodes have been visited ( degree = counter + 1). When a node becomes active it is placed into the active node queue (queue of nodes to be visited). The Breadth First Topological iterator places nodes into the queue in First In First Out order.
To determine when a node is to become active the iterator uses the counter associated with each node. If these counters are modified by an entity other then the iterator, the iteration may be affected in undefined ways.
- Author:
- Justin Deoliveira, Refractions Research Inc, jdeolive@refractions.net
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Constructor Summary
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Method Summary
Modifier and TypeMethodDescriptionbuildQueue
(Graph graph) Builds the active node queue.void
cont
(Graphable current, GraphTraversal traversal) Continues the iteration by incrementing the counters of any unvisited nodes related to the current node.void
init
(Graph graph, GraphTraversal traversal) Creates the active queue, and populates it with all nodes of degree less than 2.void
killBranch
(Graphable current, GraphTraversal traversal) Kills the current branch of the traversal by not incrementing the counters of any related nodes.next
(GraphTraversal traversal) Returns the next node in the active node queue.Methods inherited from class AbstractGraphIterator
getGraph, getTraversal, getWalker, setTraversal
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Constructor Details
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BreadthFirstTopologicalIterator
public BreadthFirstTopologicalIterator()
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Method Details
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init
Creates the active queue, and populates it with all nodes of degree less than 2. Counters of all nodes are also reset to 0.- Parameters:
graph
- The graph being whose components are being iterated over.- See Also:
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org.geotools.graph.traverse.GraphIterator#init(Graph)
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next
Returns the next node in the active node queue.- Returns:
- The next component in the iteration, or null if iteration is complete.
- See Also:
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org.geotools.graph.traverse.GraphIterator#next()
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cont
Continues the iteration by incrementing the counters of any unvisited nodes related to the current node. If any related nodes have counters equal to degree of that node - 1, it is placed into the active queue.- Parameters:
current
- The current component of the traversal.- See Also:
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org.geotools.graph.traverse.GraphIterator#cont(Graphable)
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killBranch
Kills the current branch of the traversal by not incrementing the counters of any related nodes.- Parameters:
current
- The current component of the traversal.- See Also:
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org.geotools.graph.traverse.GraphIterator#killBranch(Graphable)
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buildQueue
Builds the active node queue.- Parameters:
graph
- The Graph whose components are being iterated over.- Returns:
- A first in first out queue
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