Feature #4: Validate Sorted Participants Data
Explore how to validate sorted participant data received in a Zoom meeting by checking the order of strings in a binary search tree format. This lesson helps you understand verifying data correctness after transmission by comparing adjacent values and analyzing time and space complexity.
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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:
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First, we check if the given array has one element or no element. Then, we return ...