Trie Client

Installation

The client is a Node package hosted on the npm registry, so it can be installed with the following command:

$ npm i -g @henryscheible/[email protected]

Usage

Help

Usage information can be shown by invoking the --help option:

$ triecli --help
triecli [command]

Commands:
  triecli put <keyword>           add a keyword to the trie
  triecli delete <keyword>        delete a keyword from the trie
  triecli autocomplete <keyword>  find keywords in trie that start with
                                  <keyword>
  triecli list                    list all keywords in the trie
  triecli find <keyword>          check whether <keyword> is present in trie

Options:
  --version  Show version number                                       [boolean]
  --url      the api url to connect to
                                    [string] [default: "http://localhost:8000/"]
  --help     Show help                                                 [boolean]

Put Keyword

$ triecli put <keyword>
Successfully added <keyword> to trie

Find Keyword

$ triecli find <keyword>

This command will print true if the keyword is found and false if the keyword is not found

Delete Keyword

$ triecli delete <keyword>

Autocomplete Keyword

$ triecli autocomplete <prefix>

This command will print out all keywords starting with <prefix>, each on their own line. Example:

$ triecli autocomplete h
hello
hungry

Display Trie

$ triecli list

This command will print out all keywords in a trie one line at a time.