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Solution: Sort Items by Groups Respecting Dependencies

Solution: Sort Items by Groups Respecting Dependencies

Try to solve the Sort Items by Groups Respecting Dependencies problem using the Topological Sort pattern.

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Statement

You are given nn items indexed from 00 to n−1n − 1. Each item belongs to 00 or one of m groups, described by the array group, where:

  • group[i] represents the group of the ithi^{th} item.

  • If group[i] ==−1==-1, the item isn’t assigned to any existing group and should be treated as belonging to its own unique group.

You’re also given a list, beforeItems, where beforeItems[i] contains all items that must precede item ii in the final ordering.

Your goal is to arrange all nn items in a list that satisfies both of the following rules:

  1. Dependency order: Every item must appear after all the items listed in beforeItems[i].

  2. Group continuity: All items that belong to the same group must appear next to each other in the final order.

If there are multiple valid orderings, return any of them. If there’s no possible ordering, return an empty list.

Constraints:

  • 1≤ ...