Package de.jarnbjo.util.io

Class HuffmanNode

java.lang.Object

de.jarnbjo.util.io.HuffmanNode

public final class HuffmanNode
extends Object

Representation of a node in a Huffman tree, used to read Huffman compressed codewords from e.g. a Vorbis stream.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
HuffmanNode()	creates a new Huffman tree root node

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
boolean	setNewValue(int depth, int value)	creates a new tree node at the first free location at the given depth, and assigns the value to it

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

HuffmanNode

public HuffmanNode()

creates a new Huffman tree root node

Method Details

setNewValue

public boolean setNewValue(int depth,
 int value)

creates a new tree node at the first free location at the given depth, and assigns the value to it

Parameters:

depth - the tree depth of the new node (codeword length in bits)

value - the node's new value

Returns:

true if successful, otherwise false