`rx.priorityqueue` - Standalone `PriorityQueue` from the RxJS library

This is a standalone version of the RxJS PriorityQueue class. This class allows you to keep items in priority order based upon standard ordering or a custom ordering function that you provide. In RxJS, this is used heavily in the schedulers to ensure that all operations are executed in the precise order.

Installation

The rx.priorityqueue library can be installed by the following:

NPM

$ npm install rx.priorityqueue

Usage

You can use the PriorityQueue to keep items in order such as the following:

const q = new PriorityQueue();
 
q.enqueue(42);
q.enqueue(41);
q.enqueue(44);
q.enqueue(43);
 
console.log(`queue length is ${q.length}`);
// => queue length is 4
 
console.log(`dequeued value is ${q.dequeue()}`);
// => First value is 41
 
console.log(`dequeued value is ${q.dequeue()}`);
// => dequeued value is 42
 
console.log(`dequeued value is ${q.dequeue()}`);
// => dequeued value is 43
 
console.log(`dequeued value is ${q.dequeue()}`);
// => dequeued value is 44

You can also use your own custom comparer for complex objects to determine order. To do that, simply pass in a function which takes two arguments, the left hand side and right hand side. By default, the comparer function which is used looks like the following where if the left is greater than it should be positive, less than, should be negative and equal should be zero. Else, if you want to have it on the object compared directly, simply implement compareTo on the object to be compared and then it will work.

function defaultComparer (x, y) {
  if (x > y) {
    return 1;
  } else if (y > x) {
    return -1;
  } else {
    return 0;
  }
}

Knowing this, we can now apply this to our custom object:

function createItem(dueTime, action) {
  return {
    dueTime,
    action
  };
}
 
function comparer (x, y) { return x.dueTime - y.dueTime; }
 
var q = new PriorityQueue(comparer);
 
q.enqueue(createItem(new Date(42), () => console.log(42)));
q.enqueue(createItem(new Date(41), () => console.log(41)));
q.enqueue(createItem(new Date(44), () => console.log(44)));
q.enqueue(createItem(new Date(43), () => console.log(43)));
 
q.dequeue().action();
// => 41
 
q.dequeue().action();
// => 42
 
q.dequeue().action();
// => 43
 
q.dequeue().action();
// => 44

Documentation

`PriorityQueue` constructor

constructor

`PriorityQueue` Instance Properties

length

PriorityQueue Constructor

`PriorityQueue(comparer)`

Creates a queue organized by priority based upon the comparer to determine order.

Arguments

[comparer]: Function - The comparer used to determine order. If not specified this will default to determining order using greater than, less than.

Example

function createItem(dueTime, action) {
  return {
    dueTime,
    action
  };
}
 
function comparer (x, y) { return x.dueTime - y.dueTime; }
 
var q = new PriorityQueue(comparer);
 
q.enqueue(createItem(new Date(42), () => console.log(42)));

PriorityQueue Instance Methods

`PriorityQueue.prototype.dequeue()`

Removes the first item from the queue and returns the value.

Returns

Any - The first item in the priority queue.

Example

const q = new PriorityQueue();
 
q.enqueue(42);
 
console.log(q.dequeue());
// => 42
 
console.log(q.length);
// => 0

`PriorityQueue.prototype.enqueue(item)`

Adds an item to the priority queue which is then reordered based upon priority.

Arguments

item: Any - The item to add to the priority queue.

Example

const q = new PriorityQueue();
 
q.enqueue(42);
 
console.log(q.length);
// => 1

`PriorityQueue.prototype.peek()`

Returns the first item in the priority queue.

Returns

Any - The first item in the priority queue.

Example

const q = new PriorityQueue();
 
q.enqueue(42);
 
console.log(q.peek());
// => 42
 
console.log(q.length);
// => 1

`PriorityQueue.prototype.remove(item)`

Removes the specified item from the priority queue.

Arguments

item: Any - The item to remove from the priority queue.

Returns

Boolean - true if removed; else false.

Example

const q = new PriorityQueue();
 
q.enqueue(42);
 
console.log(`Item was removed is ${q.dequeue()}`);
// => Item was remove is true

PriorityQueue Instance Properties

`length`

Gets the length of the priority queue

Example

const q = new PriorityQueue();
 
q.enqueue(42);
 
console.log(`Priority queue length is ${q.length}`);
// => Priority queue length is 1

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