LeetCode in Kotlin

783. Minimum Distance Between BST Nodes

Easy

Given the root of a Binary Search Tree (BST), return the minimum difference between the values of any two different nodes in the tree.

Example 1:

Input: root = [4,2,6,1,3]

Output: 1

Example 2:

Input: root = [1,0,48,null,null,12,49]

Output: 1

Constraints:

Note: This question is the same as 530: https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-absolute-difference-in-bst/

Solution

import com_github_leetcode.TreeNode
import kotlin.math.abs

/*
 * Example:
 * var ti = TreeNode(5)
 * var v = ti.`val`
 * Definition for a binary tree node.
 * class TreeNode(var `val`: Int) {
 *     var left: TreeNode? = null
 *     var right: TreeNode? = null
 * }
 */
class Solution {
    private var prev = -1
    private var min = Int.MAX_VALUE
    fun minDiffInBST(root: TreeNode?): Int {
        if (root == null) {
            return min
        }
        minDiffInBST(root.left)
        if (prev != -1) {
            min = min.coerceAtMost(abs(root.`val` - prev))
        }
        prev = root.`val`
        minDiffInBST(root.right)
        return min
    }
}