Getting a list of words from a Trie

Question

I\'m looking to use the following code to not check whether there is a word matching in the Trie but to return a list all words beginning with the prefix inputted by the use

Answer 1

I built a trie once for one of ITA puzzles

public class WordTree {


class Node {

    private final char ch;

    /**
     * Flag indicates that this node is the end of the string.
     */
    private boolean end;

    private LinkedList children;

    public Node(char ch) {
        this.ch = ch;
    }

    public void addChild(Node node) {
        if (children == null) {
            children = new LinkedList();
        }
        children.add(node);
    }

    public Node getNode(char ch) {
        if (children == null) {
            return null;
        }
        for (Node child : children) {
            if (child.getChar() == ch) {
                return child;
            }
        }
        return null;
    }

    public char getChar() {
        return ch;
    }

    public List getChildren() {
        if (this.children == null) {
            return Collections.emptyList();
        }
        return children;
    }

    public boolean isEnd() {
        return end;
    }

    public void setEnd(boolean end) {
        this.end = end;
    }
}


Node root = new Node(' ');

public WordTree() {
}

/**
 * Searches for a strings that match the prefix.
 *
 * @param prefix - prefix
 * @return - list of strings that match the prefix, or empty list of no matches are found.
 */
public List getWordsForPrefix(String prefix) {
    if (prefix.length() == 0) {
        return Collections.emptyList();
    }
    Node node = getNodeForPrefix(root, prefix);
    if (node == null) {
        return Collections.emptyList();
    }
    List> chars = collectChars(node);
    List words = new ArrayList(chars.size());
    for (LinkedList charList : chars) {
        words.add(combine(prefix.substring(0, prefix.length() - 1), charList));
    }
    return words;
}


private String combine(String prefix, List charList) {
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(prefix);
    for (Character character : charList) {
        sb.append(character);
    }
    return sb.toString();
}


private Node getNodeForPrefix(Node node, String prefix) {
    if (prefix.length() == 0) {
        return node;
    }
    Node next = node.getNode(prefix.charAt(0));
    if (next == null) {
        return null;
    }
    return getNodeForPrefix(next, prefix.substring(1, prefix.length()));
}


private List> collectChars(Node node) {
    List> chars = new ArrayList>();

    if (node.getChildren().size() == 0) {
        chars.add(new LinkedList(Collections.singletonList(node.getChar())));
    } else {
        if (node.isEnd()) {
            chars.add(new LinkedList 
            Collections.singletonList(node.getChar())));
        }
        List children = node.getChildren();
        for (Node child : children) {
            List> childList = collectChars(child);
            for (LinkedList characters : childList) {
                characters.push(node.getChar());
                chars.add(characters);
            }
        }
    }
    return chars;
}


public void addWord(String word) {
    addWord(root, word);
}

private void addWord(Node parent, String word) {
    if (word.trim().length() == 0) {
        return;
    }
    Node child = parent.getNode(word.charAt(0));
    if (child == null) {
        child = new Node(word.charAt(0));
        parent.addChild(child);
    } if (word.length() == 1) {
        child.setEnd(true);
    } else {
        addWord(child, word.substring(1, word.length()));
    }
}


public static void main(String[] args) {
    WordTree tree = new WordTree();
    tree.addWord("world");
    tree.addWord("work");
    tree.addWord("wolf");
    tree.addWord("life");
    tree.addWord("love");
    System.out.println(tree.getWordsForPrefix("wo"));
}

}