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Efficient generic radix tree (trie) implementation in go
https://github.com/porfirion/trie

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Efficient generic radix tree (trie) implementation in go

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# Trie - compact and efficient generic radix tree (Patricia trie) implementation in go

Efficient generic implementation with zero allocation for read operations (Get and Search) and 1 or 2 allocations per Put operation

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## Installation

go get github.com/porfirion/trie

## Usage

```go
tr := &trie.Trie[int]
tr.PutString("hello", 1) // same as tr.Put([]byte("hello"), 1)
// OR
tr := trie.BuildFromMap(map[string]int{
"hello": 1
})

v, ok := tr.GetByString("hello")
fmt.Println(v)
```

Trie can be used in different ways:

1. Primarily I created it for searching emojis :smile: in text (in Telegram messages). There are about 3,3k emojis
in current standard (https://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts-13.0/emoji-counts.html) and checking them one by one
is very costly. For this purpose I added export package: you can generate source code for trie with all available
emojis and compile it in your program.

2. You can use it as map, where key is a slice of arbitrary bytes (`map[[]byte]interface{}` which is not possible
in language because slices are not comparable and can't be used as keys).

3. You can use this trie to check for any string prefixes (possibly storing some payload for each prefix). See example below.

4. You can build some http router using this Trie. For this purpose I added `SubTrie(mask []byte)` method that returns
sub trie with all entries, prefixed by specified mask, and `GetAll(mask []byte)` that returns all entries containing
specified mask. See example below.

Also, this implementation supports zero-length prefix (`[]byte{}` or `nil`). Value associated with this prefix can be
used as fallback when no other entries found. Or it can serve as universal prefix for all entries.

Note: Trie stores pointers to values inside, but if your values are really large (structures or arrays) - consider
using pointers as type parameter: Trie[*MyStruct]. It will prevent copying of large structures when getting result of Get.

## Examples

Search prefixes:
```go
package main

import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"github.com/porfirion/trie"
)

// Also can be created with
// prefixes := &trie.Trie{}
// prefixes.PutString("one", 1)
// prefixes.PutString("two", 2)
// prefixes.PutString("three", 3)
// prefixes.PutString("", 0)
//
var prefixes = trie.BuildFromMap[int](map[string]interface{}{
"one": 1,
"two": 2,
"three": 3,
"": 0,
})

func Example() {
var inputs = []string{
"twoApple",
"oneBanana",
"Carrot",
}

for _, inp := range inputs {
if val, prefixLen, ok := prefixes.SearchPrefixInString(inp); ok {
fmt.Println(strings.Repeat(inp[prefixLen:], val.(int)))
}
}

// Output:
//AppleApple
//Banana
}
```

Use as router:
```go
package main

import (
"fmt"
"github.com/porfirion/trie"
)

var routes = trie.BuildFromMap(map[string]interface{}{
"": "root", // as universal prefix
"/api/user": "user",
"/api/user/list": "usersList",
"/api/group": "group",
"/api/group/list": "groupsList",
"/api/articles/": "articles",
})

func Example_routing() {
var inputs = []string{
"/api/user/list",
"/api/user/li",
"/api/group",
"/api/unknown",
}

for _, inp := range inputs {
exact, ok := routes.GetByString(inp)
route := routes.GetAllByString(inp)
if ok {
fmt.Printf("%-17s:\thandler %-10s\t(route %v)\n", inp, exact, route)
} else {
fmt.Printf("%-17s:\thandler not found\t(route %v)\n", inp, route)
}
}

// Output:
// /api/user/list : handler usersList (route [root user usersList])
// /api/user/li : handler not found (route [root user])
// /api/group : handler group (route [root group])
// /api/unknown : handler not found (route [root])
}
```

## Notes

I didn't implement `Delete`/`Remove` operation as I assumed only checking for predefined list of prefixes. I you find it useful and really need it - please, open issue, I'll add it.