/**
   * Reads query file and parses the queries.
   *
   * @requires querystream, outstream, are successfully initialized
   * @requires g to be already generated
   * @param queryStream file input stream of query file
   * @param outStream file output stream of output file
   * @param g
   * @effects writes results to output file
   */
  private static void parseQuery(FileInputStream queryStream, FileOutputStream outStream, Graph g) {

    try {
      BufferedWriter output = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(outStream));
      BufferedReader queryReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(queryStream));

      final int COMMAND_INDEX = 0;
      final int U1_INDEX = 1;
      final int U2_INDEX = 2;

      final String QUERY_ENDING = " ?";

      Set<Set<String>> queries = new LinkedHashSet<Set<String>>();

      String line;

      while ((line = queryReader.readLine()) != null) {

        // each query set contains two user id strings and a command
        // this also handles duplicate user ids with different commands
        Set<String> query = new LinkedHashSet<String>();

        // a bit overkill, but eliminate any unnecessary whitespace if needed and replaces with
        // single space
        String[] columns = line.trim().replaceAll("\\s+", " ").split(" ");

        // first column is query
        // second column is user 1
        // third column is user 2

        String command = columns[COMMAND_INDEX];
        String id1 = columns[U1_INDEX];
        String id2 = columns[U2_INDEX];
        query.add(id1);
        query.add(id2);
        query.add(command);

        // check if query ends with question mark (with leading space) and query is unique
        if (line.endsWith(QUERY_ENDING) && !queries.contains(query)) {

          queries.add(query);

          Vertex u1 = new Vertex(id1);
          Vertex u2 = new Vertex(id2);

          printResults(output, g, u1, u2, command);
        }
      }
      queryReader.close();
      output.close();
      // return new LinkedHashMap<List<Vertex>, String>(queries);

    } catch (Exception e) { // if something goes wrong
      throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
  }