Crate incremental_topo
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The purpose of this crate is to maintain an topological order in the face of single updates, like adding new nodes, adding new depedencies, deleting dependencies, and deleting nodes.
Adding nodes, deleting nodes, and deleting dependencies require a trivial amount of work to perform an update, because those operations do not change the topological ordering. Adding new dependencies can change the topological ordering.
What is a Topological Order
To define a topological order requires at least a simple definition of a
graph, and specifically a directed acyclic graph (DAG). A graph can be
described as a pair of sets, (V, E)
where V
is the set of all nodes in
the graph, and E
is the set of edges. An edge is defined as a pair, (m, n)
where m
and n
are nodes. A directed graph means that edges only
imply a single direction of relationship between two nodes, as opposed to a
undirected graph which implies the relationship goes both ways. An example
of undirected vs. directed in social networks would be Facebook vs.
Twitter. Facebook friendship is a two way relationship, while following
someone on Twitter does not imply that they follow you back.
A topological ordering, ord_D
of a directed acyclic graph, D = (V, E)
where x, y ∈ V
, is a mapping of nodes to priority values such that
ord_D(x) < ord_D(y)
holds for all edges (x, y) ∈ E
. This yields a total
ordering of the nodes in D
.
Examples
use incremental_topo::IncrementalTopo;
use std::{cmp::Ordering::*, collections::HashSet};
let mut dag = IncrementalTopo::new();
let dog = dag.add_node();
let cat = dag.add_node();
let mouse = dag.add_node();
let lion = dag.add_node();
let human = dag.add_node();
let gazelle = dag.add_node();
let grass = dag.add_node();
assert_eq!(dag.len(), 7);
dag.add_dependency(&lion, &human).unwrap();
dag.add_dependency(&lion, &gazelle).unwrap();
dag.add_dependency(&human, &dog).unwrap();
dag.add_dependency(&human, &cat).unwrap();
dag.add_dependency(&dog, &cat).unwrap();
dag.add_dependency(&cat, &mouse).unwrap();
dag.add_dependency(&gazelle, &grass).unwrap();
dag.add_dependency(&mouse, &grass).unwrap();
let pairs = dag
.descendants_unsorted(&human)
.unwrap()
.collect::<HashSet<_>>();
let expected_pairs = [(4, cat), (3, dog), (5, mouse), (7, grass)]
.iter()
.cloned()
.collect::<HashSet<_>>();
assert_eq!(pairs, expected_pairs);
assert!(dag.contains_transitive_dependency(&lion, &grass));
assert!(!dag.contains_transitive_dependency(&human, &gazelle));
assert_eq!(dag.topo_cmp(&cat, &dog), Greater);
assert_eq!(dag.topo_cmp(&lion, &human), Less);
Sources
The paper by D. J. Pearce and P. H. J. Kelly contains descriptions of three different algorithms for incremental topological ordering, along with analysis of runtime bounds for each.
Structs
An iterator over the descendants of a node in the graph, which outputs the nodes in a sorted order by their topological ranking.
An iterator over the descendants of a node in the graph, which outputs the nodes in an unsorted order with their topological ranking.
Data structure for maintaining a topological ordering over a collection of elements, in an incremental fashion.
An identifier of a node in the IncrementalTopo
object.
Enums
Different types of failures that can occur while updating or querying the graph.