LeetCode 589 - N-ary Tree Preorder Traversal

Given the root of an n-ary tree, return the preorder traversal of its nodes' values.

Nary-Tree input serialization is represented in their level order traversal. Each group of children is separated by the null value (See examples)

Example 1:

Input: root = [1,null,3,2,4,null,5,6]
Output: [1,3,5,6,2,4]

Example 2:

Input: root = [1,null,2,3,4,5,null,null,6,7,null,8,null,9,10,null,null,11,null,12,null,13,null,null,14]
Output: [1,2,3,6,7,11,14,4,8,12,5,9,13,10]

Constraints:

• The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [0, 104].

• 0 <= Node.val <= 104

• The height of the n-ary tree is less than or equal to 1000.

Follow up: Recursive solution is trivial, could you do it iteratively?

Solution

recursively visit each node and add them to the list

class Solution {
    public List<Integer> preorder(Node root) {
        List<Integer> list = new ArrayList<>();
        if (root == null) return list;
        list.add(root.val);
        for(Node n : root.children) {
            list.addAll(preorder(n));
        }
        return list;
    }
}