【LeetCode】Palindrome Pairs（336）

public class Solution {
    public List<List<Integer>> palindromePairs(String[] words) {
        List<List<Integer>> res = new ArrayList<List<Integer>>();
        if(words == null || words.length == 0){
          return res;
        }
        //build the map save the key-val pairs: String - idx
        HashMap<String, Integer> map = new HashMap<>();
        for(int i = 0; i < words.length; i++){
            map.put(words[i], i);
        }

        //special cases: "" can be combine with any palindrome string
        if(map.containsKey("")) {
            int blankIdx = map.get("");
            for(int i = 0; i < words.length; i++) {
                if(isPalindrome(words[i])) {
                    if(i == blankIdx) 
                        continue;
                    res.add(Arrays.asList(blankIdx, i));
                    res.add(Arrays.asList(i, blankIdx));
                }
            }
        }

        //find all string and reverse string pairs
        for(int i = 0; i < words.length; i++) {
            String cur_r = reverseStr(words[i]);
            if(map.containsKey(cur_r)) {
              int found = map.get(cur_r);
              if(found == i) continue;
              res.add(Arrays.asList(i, found));
           }
        }

        //find the pair s1, s2 that 
        //case1 : s1[0:cut] is palindrome and s1[cut+1:] = reverse(s2) => (s2, s1)
        //case2 : s1[cut+1:] is palindrome and s1[0:cut] = reverse(s2) => (s1, s2)
        for(int i = 0; i < words.length; i++) {
            String cur = words[i];
            for(int cut = 1; cut < cur.length(); cut++) {
                if(isPalindrome(cur.substring(0, cut))) {
                    String cut_r = reverseStr(cur.substring(cut));
                    if(map.containsKey(cut_r)) {
                        int found = map.get(cut_r);
                        if(found == i) continue;
                        res.add(Arrays.asList(found, i));
                    }
                }
                if(isPalindrome(cur.substring(cut))) {
                    String cut_r = reverseStr(cur.substring(0, cut));
                    if(map.containsKey(cut_r)){
                        int found = map.get(cut_r);
                        if(found == i) continue;
                        res.add(Arrays.asList(i, found));
                    }
                }
            }
        }   

        return res;
    }

    public String reverseStr(String str) {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(str);
        return sb.reverse().toString();
    }

    public boolean isPalindrome(String s) {
        int i = 0;
        int j = s.length() - 1;
        while(i <= j){
            if(s.charAt(i) != s.charAt(j)) {
                return false;
            }
            i++;
            j--;
        }
     return true;
    } 
}