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Tarjan's strongly connected components algorithm in TypeScript. Adapted from https://gist.github.com/chadhutchins/1440602
import { Graph, Vertex, Tarjan } from '../tarjan';
it('handles simple cases', () => {
const v0 = new Vertex('0');
const v1 = new Vertex('1');
const v2 = new Vertex('2');
v0.connections.add(v1);
v1.connections.add(v2);
const vertices = [v0, v1, v2];
const graph = new Graph(vertices);
const tarjan = new Tarjan(graph);
const scc = tarjan.run();
expect(scc.map((vertices) => vertices.map((vertex) => vertex.name))).toEqual([
['2'],
['1'],
['0'],
]);
});
it('finds strongly connected components', () => {
const v0 = new Vertex('0');
const v1 = new Vertex('1');
const v2 = new Vertex('2');
v0.connections.add(v1);
v1.connections.add(v2);
v2.connections.add(v0); // cycle
const vertices = [v0, v1, v2];
const graph = new Graph(vertices);
const tarjan = new Tarjan(graph);
const scc = tarjan.run();
expect(scc.map((vertices) => vertices.map((vertex) => vertex.name))).toEqual([['2', '1', '0']]);
});
it('handles a mix of cycles and non-cycles', () => {
const v0 = new Vertex('0');
const v1 = new Vertex('1');
const v2 = new Vertex('2');
v0.connections.add(v1);
v1.connections.add(v2);
v2.connections.add(v1); // cycle
const vertices = [v0, v1, v2];
const graph = new Graph(vertices);
const tarjan = new Tarjan(graph);
const scc = tarjan.run();
expect(scc.map((vertices) => vertices.map((vertex) => vertex.name))).toEqual([['2', '1'], ['0']]);
});
it('handles complex scenarios', () => {
const v0 = new Vertex('0');
const v1 = new Vertex('1');
const v2 = new Vertex('2');
const v3 = new Vertex('3');
const v4 = new Vertex('4');
const v5 = new Vertex('5');
const v6 = new Vertex('6');
const v7 = new Vertex('7');
const v8 = new Vertex('8');
const v9 = new Vertex('9');
const v10 = new Vertex('10');
const v11 = new Vertex('11');
const v12 = new Vertex('12');
v0.connections.add(v1);
v0.connections.add(v5);
v2.connections.add(v0);
v2.connections.add(v3);
v3.connections.add(v2);
v3.connections.add(v5);
v4.connections.add(v2);
v4.connections.add(v2);
v5.connections.add(v4);
v6.connections.add(v0);
v6.connections.add(v9);
v7.connections.add(v6);
v7.connections.add(v8);
v8.connections.add(v7);
v8.connections.add(v9);
v9.connections.add(v10);
v9.connections.add(v11);
v10.connections.add(v12);
v11.connections.add(v4);
v11.connections.add(v12);
v12.connections.add(v9);
const vertices = [v0, v1, v2, v3, v4, v5, v6, v7, v8, v9, v10, v11, v12];
const graph = new Graph(vertices);
const tarjan = new Tarjan(graph);
const scc = tarjan.run();
expect(scc.map((vertices) => vertices.map((vertex) => vertex.name))).toEqual([
['1'],
['3', '2', '4', '5', '0'],
['11', '12', '10', '9'],
['6'],
['8', '7'],
]);
});
// Adapted from https://gist.github.com/chadhutchins/1440602
export class Vertex {
name: string;
connections: Set<Vertex>;
index: number;
lowlink: number;
constructor(name: string) {
this.name = name;
this.connections = new Set();
// used in tarjan algorithm
// went ahead and explicity initialized them
this.index = -1;
this.lowlink = -1;
}
equals(vertex: Vertex) {
// equality check based on vertex name
return vertex.name && this.name === vertex.name;
}
}
export class Graph {
vertices: Vertex[];
constructor(vertices: Vertex[]) {
this.vertices = vertices || [];
}
}
class VertexStack {
vertices: Vertex[];
constructor(vertices?: Vertex[]) {
this.vertices = vertices || [];
}
contains(vertex: Vertex) {
return this.vertices.some((v) => v.equals(vertex));
}
}
export class Tarjan {
index: number;
stack: VertexStack;
graph: Graph;
scc: Vertex[][];
constructor(graph: Graph) {
this.index = 0;
this.stack = new VertexStack();
this.graph = graph;
this.scc = [];
}
run() {
this.graph.vertices.forEach((vertex) => {
if (vertex.index < 0) {
this.strongconnect(vertex);
}
});
return this.scc;
}
strongconnect(vertex: Vertex) {
// Set the depth index for v to the smallest unused index
vertex.index = this.index;
vertex.lowlink = this.index;
this.index += 1;
this.stack.vertices.push(vertex);
// Consider successors of v
// aka... consider each vertex in vertex.connections
vertex.connections.forEach((successor) => {
if (successor.index < 0) {
// Successor has not yet been visited; recurse on it
this.strongconnect(successor);
vertex.lowlink = Math.min(vertex.lowlink, successor.lowlink);
} else if (this.stack.contains(successor)) {
// Successor is in stack; thus, it is in the current SCC
vertex.lowlink = Math.min(vertex.lowlink, successor.index);
}
});
// If v is a root node, pop the stack and generate an SCC
if (vertex.lowlink === vertex.index) {
// start a new strongly connected component
const vertices: Vertex[] = [];
let w: Vertex | undefined;
if (this.stack.vertices.length > 0) {
do {
w = this.stack.vertices.pop();
if (w) {
// add to current strongly connected component
vertices.push(w);
}
} while (w && !vertex.equals(w));
}
// output the current strongly connected component
// ... i'm going to push the results to a member scc array variable
if (vertices.length > 0) {
this.scc.push(vertices);
}
}
}
}
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