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Thread: Generalizing actions for a binary tree traversal?

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    Question Generalizing actions for a binary tree traversal?

    I'm trying to find a way that I could take a binary tree class and traverse through it's nodes, performing X inline actions on each node without having to rewrite the same traversal code.
    If Java allowed function pointers, this would be much simpler for me to write.

    Basically, what I need is something like the following:
    public class BinaryTreeNode {
    	public String identifier = "";
    	public BinaryTreeNode parent = null;
    	public BinaryTreeNode left = null;
    	public BinaryTreeNode right = null;
     
    	public BinaryTreeNode(BinaryTreeNode parent, String identifier) {
    		this.parent = parent;
    		this.identifier = identifier;
    	}
     
    	public boolean isRoot() {
    		return parent == null;
    	}
     
    	public void inOrderTraversalFrom(BinaryTreeNode node, /* ??? */ actions) {
    		if(node.left != null)
    			inOrderTraversalFrom(node.left);
     
    		/* do something with "actions" here */
     
    		if(node.right != null)
    			inOrderTraversalFrom(node.right);
    	}
    }
    ... where actions could allow for different methods to be performed, taking in a different set of parameters depending on the type of action(s) to be performed on each node.
    How is this possible? What would be the most dynamic way to perform this?


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    Default Re: Generalizing actions for a binary tree traversal?

    Take a look at this:
    	public static interface IFunction<T> {
     
    		public void callFunction(T t);
     
    	}
     
    	private static IFunction<String> functionPointer = new IFunction<String>() {
     
    		@Override
    		public void callFunction(String t) {
    			System.out.println(t);
     
    		}
    	};
     
    	public static final List<IFunction<?>> functions = new ArrayList<>();
     
    	{
    		functions.add(functionPointer);
    	}
     
     
    	public void inOrderTraversalFrom(BinaryTreeNode node, List<IFunction<?>> actions) {
    		if(node.left != null)
    			inOrderTraversalFrom(node.left, null);
     
    		IFunction<String> func = (IFunction<String>) actions.get(0);
     
    		func.callFunction("Hello function pointer");
     
    		if(node.right != null)
    			inOrderTraversalFrom(node.right, null);
    	}

    That's a quick and dirty solution but that's a kind of function pointing in java.

    You can use generic parameter to change the parameters but you must declare parameter classes for each function signature.

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