I'm trying to implement a Ford–Fulkerson algorithm in java and I've been having some problems where my code gets obnoxiously and unnecessarily complicated.
What I do want is to have:
class Node:
private int id
private static int idAssigner // I may move this to another class
// etc
class flowNetwork
private Node source // begin point
private Node sink // end point
Now I want to group nodes similarly how I would a (bidirectional) tree. Each node has a list of all nodes it's connected to.
My problem is this: How could I give this connection a value (maximum flow, current flow) ?
Should I make another class Connection
that has Node A
Node B
and max flow
/ current flow
. And if I do that, how should I connect the nodes ? (as in should every node have a Connection
and wouldn't that be redundant ? I'm a bit stuck.
edit Or should I just have Connections
and implement some sort of search function to acomodate linking elements. It's all I can think of to be honest.
P.S.
This class is mostly just the math part, so I have never implemented a graph, nor does the course cover this, so thank you for helping a novice :) (that's if this doesn't get closed in like 5 minutes).