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[Monty31]

Hallo,
kann mir einer von euch vielleicht bei der folgenden Aufgabe helfen:
Wie wurde der folgende Code mit der Methode Merger aussehen?
Code:

public class Merge {
public static long[] merge(long[] ns, int i, Merger m) {
    m.merge();
    if (i >= ns.length) {
        return new long[0];
    }

    if (i < 0) {
        return merge(ns, 0,m);
    }

    long[] sub = new long[ns.length - i];
    System.arraycopy(ns, i, sub, 0, ns.length - i);

    if (sub.length >= 2) {
        long[] common = getCommons(sub);
        long res = multiply(common);
        return mergeLongArray(new long[]{res}, merge(sub, common.length, m));
    } else {
        return new long[]{sub[0]};
    } 
}

public static long multiply(long[] arr) {
    long sum = 1;
    for (long x : arr) {
        sum *= x;
    }
    return sum;
}

public static long[] getCommons(long[] arr) {
    int count = 1;
    for (int i = 0; i < arr.length - 1 && arr[i] == arr[i + 1]; i++) {
        count++;
    }

    long[] result = new long[count];
    System.arraycopy(arr, 0, result, 0, count);
    return result;
}

public static long[] mergeLongArray(long[] arr1, long[] arr2) {
    long[] result = new long[arr1.length + arr2.length];
    System.arraycopy(arr1, 0, result, 0, arr1.length);
    System.arraycopy(arr2, 0, result, arr1.length, arr2.length);
    return result;
}
}

Methode Merger:

public interface Merger {
    /**
    * Appends {@code newLast} to the array {@code old}, e.g. append({0, 1, 2, 3}, 42) gives the new array {0, 1, 2, 3, 42}.
    * 
    * @param old
    *            - the array to which {@code newLast} is to be appended
    * @param newLast
    *            - the value to be appended to the array {@code old}
    * @return a new array containing the values from {@code old} preserving their order as of {@code old} followed by {@code newLast} as last element
    */
    public long[] append(long[] old, long newLast);

    /**
    * Prepends {@code newFirst} to the array {@code old}, e.g. prepend(42, {0, 1, 2, 3}) gives the new array {42, 0, 1, 2, 3}.
    * 
    * @param newFirst
    *            - the value to be prepended to the array {@code old}
    * @param old
    *            - the array to which {@code newFirst} is to be prepended
    * @return a new array containing {@code newFirst} as first element at position 0 followed by the values from {@code old} preserving their order as of {@code old}
    */
    public long[] prepend(long newFirst, long[] old);

    /**
    * Used to log and check your recursion. YOU MUST CALL THIS METHOD IMMEDIATELY AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR METHOD.
    */
    public void merge();
}

 

[MoxxiManagarm]

Merger ist keine Methode sondern ein Interface. Du musst also folgendes schreiben:

public class Merge implements Merger

Das zwingt dich dann dazu die in Merger definierten Methoden zu implementieren.

 

[Flown]

Wie lautet denn die Angabe dazu?