Java Binary Tree. Priting InOrder traversal

Question

I am having some problems printing an inOrder traversal of my binary tree. Even after inserting many items into the tree it's only printing 3 items.

public class BinaryTree {

    private TreeNode root;
    private int size;

    public BinaryTree(){
        this.size = 0;
    }

    public boolean insert(TreeNode node){

        if( root == null)
            root = node;

        else{
            TreeNode parent = null;
            TreeNode current = root;
            while( current != null){
                if( node.getData().getValue().compareTo(current.getData().getValue()) <0){
                    parent = current;
                    current = current.getLeft();
                }
                else if( node.getData().getValue().compareTo(current.getData().getValue()) >0){
                    parent = current;
                    current = current.getRight();
                }
                else
                    return false;

                if(node.getData().getValue().compareTo(parent.getData().getValue()) < 0)
                    parent.setLeft(node);
                else
                    parent.setRight(node);
                }
            }
            size++;
            return true;
        }


    /**
     * 
     */
    public void inOrder(){
        inOrder(root);
    }

    private void inOrder(TreeNode root){
        if( root.getLeft() !=null)
            this.inOrder(root.getLeft());
        System.out.println(root.getData().getValue());

        if( root.getRight() != null)
            this.inOrder(root.getRight());
    }



}

Answer 1

You insert method has a problem. It finds the right parent node to attach the new element to, but on the way it messes up the whole tree. You should move the insertion code out of the while loop:

public boolean insert(TreeNode node){

    if( root == null)
        root = node;

    else{
        TreeNode parent = null;
        TreeNode current = root;
        while( current != null){
            if( node.getData().getValue().compareTo(current.getData().getValue()) <0){
                parent = current;
                current = current.getLeft();
            }
            else if( node.getData().getValue().compareTo(current.getData().getValue()) >0){
                parent = current;
                current = current.getRight();
            }
            else
                return false;
        }

        if(node.getData().getValue().compareTo(parent.getData().getValue()) < 0)
            parent.setLeft(node);
        else
            parent.setRight(node);
        }

        size++;
        return true;
    }
}

Answer 2

It seems that you are not traversing the tree properly upon insertion, to find the right place for the new node. Right now you are always inserting at one child of the root, because the insertion code is inside the while loop - it should be after it:

public boolean insert(TreeNode node){

    if( root == null)
        root = node;

    else{
        TreeNode parent = null;
        TreeNode current = root;
        while( current != null){
            if( node.getData().getValue().compareTo(current.getData().getValue()) <0){
                parent = current;
                current = current.getLeft();
            }
            else if( node.getData().getValue().compareTo(current.getData().getValue()) >0){
                parent = current;
                current = current.getRight();
            }
            else
                return false;
        }
        if(node.getData().getValue().compareTo(parent.getData().getValue()) < 0)
            parent.setLeft(node);
        else
            parent.setRight(node);
        }

        size++;
        return true;
    }