com.google.common.graph

Interface Graph<N>

Type Parameters:

N - Node parameter type

All Known Subinterfaces:

MutableGraph<N>

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractGraph, ImmutableGraph

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public interface Graph<N>

An interface for graph-structured data, whose edges are anonymous entities with no identity or information of their own.

A graph is composed of a set of nodes and a set of edges connecting pairs of nodes.

There are three primary interfaces provided to represent graphs. In order of increasing complexity they are: Graph, ValueGraph, and Network. You should generally prefer the simplest interface that satisfies your use case. See the "Choosing the right graph type" section of the Guava User Guide for more details.

Capabilities

Graph supports the following use cases (definitions of terms):

• directed graphs
• undirected graphs
• graphs that do/don't allow self-loops
• graphs whose nodes/edges are insertion-ordered, sorted, or unordered

Graph explicitly does not support parallel edges, and forbids implementations or extensions with parallel edges. If you need parallel edges, use Network.

Building a Graph

The implementation classes that `common.graph` provides are not public, by design. To create an instance of one of the built-in implementations of Graph, use the GraphBuilder class:

   MutableGraph<Integer> graph = GraphBuilder.undirected().build();
 

GraphBuilder.build() returns an instance of MutableGraph, which is a subtype of Graph that provides methods for adding and removing nodes and edges. If you do not need to mutate a graph (e.g. if you write a method than runs a read-only algorithm on the graph), you should use the non-mutating Graph interface, or an ImmutableGraph.

You can create an immutable copy of an existing Graph using ImmutableGraph.copyOf(Graph):

   ImmutableGraph<Integer> immutableGraph = ImmutableGraph.copyOf(graph);
 

Instances of ImmutableGraph do not implement MutableGraph (obviously!) and are contractually guaranteed to be unmodifiable and thread-safe.

The Guava User Guide has more information on (and examples of) building graphs.

Additional documentation

See the Guava User Guide for the common.graph package ("Graphs Explained") for additional documentation, including:

• equals(), hashCode(), and graph equivalence
• Synchronization policy
• Notes for implementors

Since:

20.0

Author:

James Sexton, Joshua O'Madadhain

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Set<N>	adjacentNodes(N node) Returns the nodes which have an incident edge in common with node in this graph.
boolean	allowsSelfLoops() Returns true if this graph allows self-loops (edges that connect a node to itself).
int	degree(N node) Returns the count of node's incident edges, counting self-loops twice (equivalently, the number of times an edge touches node).
Set<EndpointPair<N>>	edges() Returns all edges in this graph.
boolean	equals(Object object) Returns true iff object is a Graph that has the same elements and the same structural relationships as those in this graph.
int	hashCode() Returns the hash code for this graph.
int	inDegree(N node) Returns the count of node's incoming edges (equal to predecessors(node).size()) in a directed graph.
boolean	isDirected() Returns true if the edges in this graph are directed.
ElementOrder<N>	nodeOrder() Returns the order of iteration for the elements of nodes().
Set<N>	nodes() Returns all nodes in this graph, in the order specified by nodeOrder().
int	outDegree(N node) Returns the count of node's outgoing edges (equal to successors(node).size()) in a directed graph.
Set<N>	predecessors(N node) Returns all nodes in this graph adjacent to node which can be reached by traversing node's incoming edges against the direction (if any) of the edge.
Set<N>	successors(N node) Returns all nodes in this graph adjacent to node which can be reached by traversing node's outgoing edges in the direction (if any) of the edge.

Method Detail

nodes

Set<N> nodes()

Returns all nodes in this graph, in the order specified by nodeOrder().

edges

Set<EndpointPair<N>> edges()

Returns all edges in this graph.

isDirected

boolean isDirected()

Returns true if the edges in this graph are directed. Directed edges connect a source node to a target node, while undirected edges connect a pair of nodes to each other.

allowsSelfLoops

boolean allowsSelfLoops()

Returns true if this graph allows self-loops (edges that connect a node to itself). Attempting to add a self-loop to a graph that does not allow them will throw an IllegalArgumentException.

nodeOrder

ElementOrder<N> nodeOrder()

Returns the order of iteration for the elements of nodes().

adjacentNodes

Set<N> adjacentNodes(N node)

Returns the nodes which have an incident edge in common with node in this graph.

predecessors

Set<N> predecessors(N node)

Returns all nodes in this graph adjacent to node which can be reached by traversing node's incoming edges against the direction (if any) of the edge.

In an undirected graph, this is equivalent to adjacentNodes(Object).

successors

Set<N> successors(N node)

Returns all nodes in this graph adjacent to node which can be reached by traversing node's outgoing edges in the direction (if any) of the edge.

In an undirected graph, this is equivalent to adjacentNodes(Object).

This is not the same as "all nodes reachable from node by following outgoing edges". For that functionality, see Graphs.reachableNodes(Graph, Object).

degree

int degree(N node)

Returns the count of node's incident edges, counting self-loops twice (equivalently, the number of times an edge touches node).

For directed graphs, this is equal to inDegree(node) + outDegree(node).

For undirected graphs, this is equal to adjacentNodes(node).size() + (1 if node has an incident self-loop, 0 otherwise).

If the count is greater than Integer.MAX_VALUE, returns Integer.MAX_VALUE.

inDegree

int inDegree(N node)

Returns the count of node's incoming edges (equal to predecessors(node).size()) in a directed graph. In an undirected graph, returns the degree(Object).

If the count is greater than Integer.MAX_VALUE, returns Integer.MAX_VALUE.

outDegree

int outDegree(N node)

Returns the count of node's outgoing edges (equal to successors(node).size()) in a directed graph. In an undirected graph, returns the degree(Object).

If the count is greater than Integer.MAX_VALUE, returns Integer.MAX_VALUE.

equals

boolean equals(@Nullable
               Object object)

Returns true iff object is a Graph that has the same elements and the same structural relationships as those in this graph.

Thus, two graphs A and B are equal if all of the following are true:

• A and B have equal directedness.
• A and B have equal node sets.
• A and B have equal edge sets.

Graph properties besides directedness do not affect equality. For example, two graphs may be considered equal even if one allows self-loops and the other doesn't. Additionally, the order in which nodes or edges are added to the graph, and the order in which they are iterated over, are irrelevant.

A reference implementation of this is provided by AbstractGraph.equals(Object).

Overrides:

equals in class Object

hashCode

int hashCode()

Returns the hash code for this graph. The hash code of a graph is defined as the hash code of the set returned by edges().

A reference implementation of this is provided by AbstractGraph.hashCode().

Overrides:

hashCode in class Object