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Reputation: 13

Hierarchy from Flat Data

I have an employee class that has an employeeId (int), parent(int) and children property List<Employee>. I get the employee list from the database in the correct order and now need to build the hierarchy, but I am failing miserably...I know this is programming 101, but I am having a hard time with it.

public class Employee
{
  public int EmployeeId { get; set;}
  public int ParentId;{ get; set;}
  public List<Employee> Children; { get; set;}

}

Data Example

EmployeeId, ManagerId
1, 0 //no one
2, 1
3, 1
4, 2
5, 2
6, 3
7, 3

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5208

Answers (3)

Mark Cidade
Mark Cidade

Reputation: 99957

You can start by creating a list of all the employee objects and setting the EmployeeId and ParentId properties. If you also put them in a dictionary, keyed by EmployeeId, you can retrieve the parent of each afterward to add to the Children collection:

List<Employee> employees = new List<Employee>();
Dictionary<int,Employee> dict = new Dictionary<int,Employee>();

foreach(result from database query)
{
   Employee employee = new Employee();
   employee.EmployeeId = result["EmployeeId"];
   employee.ParentId = result["ParentId"];
   employees.Add(employee);
   dict.Add(employee.EmployeeId, employee);
}

foreach(Employee e in employees)
{ 
  dict[e.ParentId].Children.Add(e);
}

Upvotes: 1

jim tollan
jim tollan

Reputation: 22485

i got inspiration from this article a while ago (i had to change it slightly to suit my purposes). It basically builds a hierarchical structure to the n'th degree.

Might be useful, even if only to discount its approach in your own case :-)

http://www.scip.be/index.php?Page=ArticlesNET23&Lang=EN

Upvotes: 1

jbehren
jbehren

Reputation: 770

List<Employee> allEmployees = new List<Employee>();
allEmployees.AddRange(LoadAllEmployees()); // pull from DB in flat format    
foreach (var employee in allEmployees)
{
  employee.Children = allEmployees.Where(e => e.ParentId == employee.EmployeeId).ToList();
}

Upvotes: 2

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