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Design a Food Rating System

Medium

Create a food rating system that can do the following:

  • Modify the rating of a food item listed in the system.

  • Produce the highest-rated food item for a type of cuisine in the system.

Build the FoodRatings class:

  • FoodRatings(String[] foods, String[] cuisines, int[] ratings) Initializes the system. The food items are described by foods, cuisines and ratings, all of which have a length of n.

    • foods[i] is the name of the i th food,

    • cuisines[i] is the type of cuisine of the i th food, and

    • ratings[i] is the initial rating of the i th food.

  • void changeRating(String food, int newRating) Changes the rating of the food item with the name food.

  • String highestRated(String cuisine) Returns the name of the food item that has the highest rating for the given type of cuisine. If there is a tie, produce the item with the lexicographically smaller name.

Note that a string x is lexicographically smaller than string y if x comes before y in dictionary order, that is, either x is a prefix of y, or if i is the first position such that x[i] != y[i], then x[i] comes before y[i] in alphabetic order.

Example 1

Input: ["FoodRatings", "highestRated", "highestRated", "changeRating", "highestRated", "changeRating", "highestRated"] [[["kimchi", "miso", "sushi", "moussaka", "ramen", "bulgogi"], ["korean", "japanese", "japanese", "greek", "japanese", "korean"], [9, 12, 8, 15, 14, 7]], ["korean"], ["japanese"], ["sushi", 16], ["japanese"], ["ramen", 16], ["japanese"]]

Output: [null, "kimchi", "ramen", null, "sushi", null, "ramen"]

Explanation:

FoodRatings foodRatings = new FoodRatings(["kimchi", "miso", "sushi", "moussaka", "ramen", "bulgogi"], ["korean", "japanese", "japanese", "greek", "japanese", "korean"], [9, 12, 8, 15, 14, 7]);
foodRatings.highestRated("korean"); // produce "kimchi"
// "kimchi" is the highest rated korean food with a rating of 9.
foodRatings.highestRated("japanese"); // produce "ramen"
// "ramen" is the highest rated japanese food with a rating of 14.
foodRatings.changeRating("sushi", 16); // "sushi" now has a rating of 16.
foodRatings.highestRated("japanese"); // produce "sushi"
// "sushi" is the highest rated japanese food with a rating of 16.
foodRatings.changeRating("ramen", 16); // "ramen" now has a rating of 16.
foodRatings.highestRated("japanese"); // produce "ramen"
// Both "sushi" and "ramen" have a rating of 16.
// However, "ramen" is lexicographically smaller than "sushi".

Constraints

  • 1 <= n <= 2 * 10^4
  • n == foods.length == cuisines.length == ratings.length
  • 1 <= foods[i].length, cuisines[i].length <= 10
  • foods[i], cuisines[i] consist of lowercase English letters.
  • 1 <= ratings[i] <= 10^8
  • All the strings in foods are distinct.
  • food will be the name of a food item in the system across all calls to changeRating.
  • cuisine will be a type of cuisine of at least one food item in the system across all calls to highestRated.
  • At most 2 * 10^4 calls in total will be made to changeRating and highestRated.

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