How to flatten tree via LINQ?

Question

So I have simple tree:

class MyNode
{
 public MyNode Parent;
 public IEnumerable Elements;
 int group = 1;
}

I have a I

Answer 1

I found some small issues with the answers given here:

• What if the initial list of items is null?
• What if there is a null value in the list of children?

Built on the previous answers and came up with the following:

public static class IEnumerableExtensions
{
    public static IEnumerable Flatten(
        this IEnumerable items, 
        Func> getChildren)
    {
        if (items == null)
            yield break;

        var stack = new Stack(items);
        while (stack.Count > 0)
        {
            var current = stack.Pop();
            yield return current;

            if (current == null) continue;

            var children = getChildren(current);
            if (children == null) continue;

            foreach (var child in children)
                stack.Push(child);
        }
    }
}

And the unit tests:

[TestClass]
public class IEnumerableExtensionsTests
{
    [TestMethod]
    public void NullList()
    {
        IEnumerable items = null;
        var flattened = items.Flatten(i => i.Children);
        Assert.AreEqual(0, flattened.Count());
    }
    [TestMethod]
    public void EmptyList()
    {
        var items = new Test[0];
        var flattened = items.Flatten(i => i.Children);
        Assert.AreEqual(0, flattened.Count());
    }
    [TestMethod]
    public void OneItem()
    {
        var items = new[] { new Test() };
        var flattened = items.Flatten(i => i.Children);
        Assert.AreEqual(1, flattened.Count());
    }
    [TestMethod]
    public void OneItemWithChild()
    {
        var items = new[] { new Test { Id = 1, Children = new[] { new Test { Id = 2 } } } };
        var flattened = items.Flatten(i => i.Children);
        Assert.AreEqual(2, flattened.Count());
        Assert.IsTrue(flattened.Any(i => i.Id == 1));
        Assert.IsTrue(flattened.Any(i => i.Id == 2));
    }
    [TestMethod]
    public void OneItemWithNullChild()
    {
        var items = new[] { new Test { Id = 1, Children = new Test[] { null } } };
        var flattened = items.Flatten(i => i.Children);
        Assert.AreEqual(2, flattened.Count());
        Assert.IsTrue(flattened.Any(i => i.Id == 1));
        Assert.IsTrue(flattened.Any(i => i == null));
    }
    class Test
    {
        public int Id { get; set; }
        public IEnumerable Children { get; set; }
    }
}