- Difficulty: Medium
- Tags: LeetCode, Medium, Tree, Depth-First Search, Breadth-First Search, Design, Binary Search Tree, String, Binary Tree, leetcode-449, O(n), O(h)
Problem
Serialization is converting a data structure or object into a sequence of bits so that it can be stored in a file or memory buffer, or transmitted across a network connection link to be reconstructed later in the same or another computer environment.
Design an algorithm to serialize and deserialize a binary search tree. There is no restriction on how your serialization/deserialization algorithm should work. You need to ensure that a binary search tree can be serialized to a string, and this string can be deserialized to the original tree structure.
The encoded string should be as compact as possible.
Example 1:
Input: root = [2,1,3] Output: [2,1,3]
Example 2:
Input: root = [] Output: []
Constraints:
- The number of nodes in the tree is in the range
[0, 104]
. 0 <= Node.val <= 104
- The input tree is guaranteed to be a binary search tree.