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    017package org.apache.commons.collections4.trie;
    018
    019import java.util.Map;
    020
    021import org.apache.commons.collections4.trie.analyzer.StringKeyAnalyzer;
    022
    023/**
    024 * Implementation of a PATRICIA Trie (Practical Algorithm to Retrieve Information
    025 * Coded in Alphanumeric).
    026 * <p>
    027 * A PATRICIA {@link org.apache.commons.collections4.Trie} is a compressed
    028 * {@link org.apache.commons.collections4.Trie}. Instead of storing
    029 * all data at the edges of the {@link org.apache.commons.collections4.Trie}
    030 * (and having empty internal nodes), PATRICIA stores data in every node.
    031 * This allows for very efficient traversal, insert, delete, predecessor,
    032 * successor, prefix, range, and {@link #select(Object)}
    033 * operations. All operations are performed at worst in O(K) time, where K
    034 * is the number of bits in the largest item in the tree. In practice,
    035 * operations actually take O(A(K)) time, where A(K) is the average number of
    036 * bits of all items in the tree.
    037 * </p>
    038 * <p>
    039 * Most importantly, PATRICIA requires very few comparisons to keys while
    040 * doing any operation. While performing a lookup, each comparison (at most
    041 * K of them, described above) will perform a single bit comparison against
    042 * the given key, instead of comparing the entire key to another key.
    043 * </p>
    044 * <p>
    045 * The {@link org.apache.commons.collections4.Trie} can return operations in
    046 * lexicographical order using the 'prefixMap', 'submap', or 'iterator' methods.
    047 * The {@link org.apache.commons.collections4.Trie} can also
    048 * scan for items that are 'bitwise' (using an XOR metric) by the 'select' method.
    049 * Bitwise closeness is determined by the {@link KeyAnalyzer} returning true or
    050 * false for a bit being set or not in a given key.
    051 * </p>
    052 * <p>
    053 * This PATRICIA {@link org.apache.commons.collections4.Trie} supports both variable
    054 * length &amp; fixed length keys. Some methods, such as {@link #prefixMap(Object)}
    055 * are suited only to variable length keys.
    056 * </p>
    057 *
    058 * @param <E> the type of the values in this map
    059 *
    060 * @see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_tree">Radix Tree</a>
    061 * @see <a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~lloyd/tildeAlgDS/Tree/PATRICIA">PATRICIA</a>
    062 * @see <a href="http://www.imperialviolet.org/binary/critbit.pdf">Crit-Bit Tree</a>
    063 * @since 4.0
    064 */
    065public class PatriciaTrie<E> extends AbstractPatriciaTrie<String, E> {
    066
    067    private static final long serialVersionUID = 4446367780901817838L;
    068
    069    public PatriciaTrie() {
    070        super(new StringKeyAnalyzer());
    071    }
    072
    073    public PatriciaTrie(final Map<? extends String, ? extends E> m) {
    074        super(new StringKeyAnalyzer(), m);
    075    }
    076
    077}