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BidirectionalGraph

The BidirectionalGraph concept refines IncidenceGraph and adds the requirement for efficient access to the in-edges of each vertex. This concept is separated from IncidenceGraph because for directed graphs efficient access to in-edges typically requires more storage space, and many algorithms do not require access to in-edges. For undirected graphs this is not an issue, since the in_edges() and out_edges() functions are the same, they both return the edges incident to the vertex.

Refinement of

IncidenceGraph

Notation

G A type that is a model of Graph.
g An object of type G.
v An object of type boost::graph_traits<G>::vertex_descriptor.

Associated Types

boost::graph_traits<G>::traversal_category

This tag type must be convertible to bidirectional_graph_tag.
boost::graph_traits<G>::in_edge_iterator
An in-edge iterator for a vertex v provides access to the in-edges of v. As such, the value type of an in-edge iterator is the edge descriptor type of its graph. An in-edge iterator must meet the requirements of MultiPassInputIterator.

Valid Expressions

in_edges(v, g) Returns an iterator-range providing access to the in-edges (for directed graphs) or incident edges (for undirected graphs) of vertex v in graph g. For both directed and undirected graphs, the target of an out-edge is required to be vertex v and the source is required to be a vertex that is adjacent to v.
Return type: std::pair<in_edge_iterator, in_edge_iterator>
in_degree(v, g) Returns the number of in-edges (for directed graphs) or the number of incident edges (for undirected graphs) of vertex v in graph g.
Return type: degree_size_type
degree(v, g) Returns the number of in-edges plus out-edges (for directed graphs) or the number of incident edges (for undirected graphs) of vertex v in graph g.
Return type: degree_size_type

Models

Complexity guarantees

The in_edges() function is required to be constant time. The in_degree() and degree() functions must be linear in the number of in-edges (for directed graphs) or incident edges (for undirected graphs).

See Also

Graph concepts

Concept Checking Class

  template <class G>
  struct BidirectionalGraphConcept
  {
    typedef typename boost::graph_traits<G>::in_edge_iterator
      in_edge_iterator;
    void constraints() {
      function_requires< IncidenceGraphConcept<G> >();
      function_requires< MultiPassInputIteratorConcept<in_edge_iterator> >();

      p = in_edges(v, g);
      e = *p.first;
      const_constraints(g);
    }
    void const_constraints(const G& g) {
      p = in_edges(v, g);
      e = *p.first;
    }
    std::pair<in_edge_iterator, in_edge_iterator> p;
    typename boost::graph_traits<G>::vertex_descriptor v;
    typename boost::graph_traits<G>::edge_descriptor e;
    G g;
  };


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