Friday 1 May 2015

Stack Implementation Using Priority Queue

Stacks may be modeled as particular kinds of priority queues. In a stack, the priority of each inserted element is monotonically increasing; thus, the last element inserted is always the first retrieved.
Stack Implementation : 

import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
import java.util.PriorityQueue;


public class StackImplementationUsingPQ {

    private PriorityQueue pq = new PriorityQueue();
    private int counter = 0;
    
    public void push(String s){
        Element e = new Element(s, counter++);
        pq.add(e);
    }
    
    public String pop(){
        Element e = null;
        try{
            e = pq.remove();
            counter--;
        }catch(NoSuchElementException ex){
            return "'Stack is Empty'";
        }
        return e.toString();
    }
    
    public static void main(String[] args){
        StackImplementationUsingPQ stack = new StackImplementationUsingPQ();
        stack.push("Banana");
        stack.push("Mango");
        stack.push("Apple");
        System.out.println(stack.pop());
        stack.push("Orange");
        stack.push("Pinapple");
        System.out.println(stack.pop());
        System.out.println(stack.pop());
        System.out.println(stack.pop());
        System.out.println(stack.pop());
        System.out.println(stack.pop());
    }
    
}
class Element implements Comparable{
    
    private Integer priority;
    private String value;
    
    Element(String value, Integer priority){
        this.value = value;
        this.priority = priority;
    }
    
    
    public Integer getPriority() {
        return priority;
    }
    public void setPriority(Integer priority) {
        this.priority = priority;
    }
    public String getValue() {
        return value;
    }
    public void setValue(String value) {
        this.value = value;
    }

    @Override
    public int compareTo(Element o) {
        return o.getPriority().compareTo(this.getPriority());
    }
    
    @Override
    public String toString() {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        sb.append("value : ");
        sb.append(getValue());
        sb.append(", ");
        sb.append("priority : ");
        sb.append(getPriority());
        return sb.toString();
    }

Output:

value : Apple, priority : 2
value : Pinapple, priority : 3
value : Orange, priority : 2
value : Mango, priority : 1
value : Banana, priority : 0
'Stack is Empty'

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