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Serialization is the process of converting a data structure or object into a sequence of bits so that it can be stored in a file or memory buffer, or transmitted across a network connection link to be reconstructed later in the same or another computer environment.

Design an algorithm to serialize and deserialize a binary tree. There is no restriction on how your serialization/deserialization algorithm should work. You just need to ensure that a binary tree can be serialized to a string and this string can be deserialized to the original tree structure.

For example, you may serialize the following tree

1

/
2 3 /
4 5

as "[1,2,3,null,null,4,5]", just the same as how LeetCode OJ serializes a binary tree. You do not necessarily need to follow this format, so please be creative and come up with different approaches yourself. Note: Do not use class member/global/static variables to store states. Your serialize and deserialize algorithms should be stateless.

recursively preorder traverse the tree to construct the string, and do the same to decode the string. One trick is to save the traverse function within the class or the scope so that the string is global and can be constructed in the right order.