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Feature #4: Validate Sorted Participants Data

Explore how to validate sorted participants' data in a binary search tree as used in apps like Zoom. Learn to check if a serialized list maintains proper sorted order on the client side by comparing adjacent string values, ensuring data integrity after transmission from server to client.

Description

Zoom is an application that helps to connect many people all over the world. It uses a binary search tree (BST) to maintain the participants’ data on the server and client-sides. The participants’ data is sent from the server to the client in the serialized form and then deserialized into a BST on the client-side. Let’s assume that when a new client joins a meeting, it downloads the participant list for the meeting. The list is serialized into a BST and sent over the network from the server to the client. Once the list is received from the client, we will verify that it was received correctly and that no errors occurred during the transmission. This feature will show us how to validate the BST containing the client-side participants’ data.

Solution

We assume that the server sends the sorted string array in the in-order form to the client. The strings in the array are either in increasing or decreasing order. In our case, we will consider a given sorted string array in alphabetically increasing in-order format.

Here is how the implementation will take place:

  1. First, we check if the given array has one element or no element. Then, we return ...