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0981 - Time Based Key-Value Store (Medium)

https://leetcode.com/problems/time-based-key-value-store/

Problem Statement

Design a time-based key-value data structure that can store multiple values for the same key at different time stamps and retrieve the key's value at a certain timestamp.

Implement the TimeMap class:

  • TimeMap() Initializes the object of the data structure.

  • void set(String key, String value, int timestamp) Stores the key key with the value value at the given time timestamp.

  • String get(String key, int timestamp) Returns a value such that set was called previously, with timestamp_prev <= timestamp. If there are multiple such values, it returns the value associated with the largest timestamp_prev. If there are no values, it returns "".

Example 1:

Input: ["TimeMap", "set", "get", "get", "set", "get", "get"]
        [[], ["foo", "bar", 1], ["foo", 1], ["foo", 3], ["foo", "bar2", 4], ["foo", 4], ["foo", 5]]
Output: [null, null, "bar", "bar", null, "bar2", "bar2"]

Constraints:

  • 1 <= key.length, value.length <= 100
  • key and value consist of lowercase English letters and digits.
  • 1 <= timestamp <= 10^7
  • All the timestamps timestamp of set are strictly increasing.
  • At most 2 * 10^5 calls will be made to set and get.

Create a hashmap to store key, value pairs. Here the value timestamp value with acutal value which is stored in another Object of class Element Whenever get used for a particular element we will be going to get all the values of corresponding key and binary search the list of timestamps

Written by@ganajayant
class Element {
    String val;
    int timestamp;

    public Element(String val, int timestamp) {
        this.val = val;
        this.timestamp = timestamp;
    }

}

class TimeMap {
    HashMap<String, LinkedList<Element>> hm;

    public TimeMap() {
        hm = new HashMap<>();
    }

    public void set(String key, String value, int timestamp) {
        if (hm.containsKey(key)) {
            LinkedList<Element> ll = hm.get(key);
            ll.add(new Element(value, timestamp));
            hm.put(key, ll);
        } else {
            LinkedList<Element> ll = new LinkedList<>();
            ll.add(new Element(value, timestamp));
            hm.put(key, ll);
        }
    }

    public String get(String key, int timestamp) {
        LinkedList<Element> ll = hm.getOrDefault(key, null);
        if (ll == null) {
            return "";
        }
        int low = 0, high = ll.size() - 1;
        if (ll.get(low).timestamp > timestamp) {
            return "";
        }
        if (ll.get(high).timestamp <= timestamp) {
            return ll.get(high).val;
        }
        while (low < high) {
            int mid = (low + high) / 2;
            if (ll.get(mid).timestamp == timestamp) {
                return ll.get(mid).val;
            }
            if (ll.get(mid).timestamp < timestamp) {
                low = mid + 1;
            } else {
                high = mid - 1;
            }

        }
        return ll.get(low - 1).val;
    }
}

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