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A silly but effective JS tree datastructure
/**
* Basic tree implementation.
*/
function Tree(value) {
this.value = value || false;
this.parent = false;
this.children = [];
};
Tree.prototype = {
// add a child tree to this tree
add: function(value) {
var n = new Tree(value);
this.children.push(n);
n.parent = this;
return n;
},
// the value of a tree is the tree itself
valueOf: function() {
return this;
},
// list-style string representation of this tree
toString: function() {
var blocks = [];
if (this.value) { blocks.push(this.value); }
var cblocks = this.children.map(c => c.toString());
if (cblocks.length > 0) { blocks = blocks.concat(cblocks); }
if (blocks.length > 0) { blocks = ["("].concat(blocks).concat([")"]); }
return blocks.join('');
},
// generate all paths from the root to each of the leaves.
getDistinctPaths: function(sofar, seen) {
seen = seen || [];
var base = sofar? sofar.slice() : [];
if(this.value) { base.push(this.value); }
if (this.children.length===0) { seen.push(base); }
this.children.map(c => { c.getDistinctPaths(base, seen); });
return seen;
}
};
module.exports = Tree;
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