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Given a weighted Directed Acyclic Graph, find the longest path between two given node.
I came up with a simple BFS solution, but then Googled the question after the interview and this seems to be more complicated than what I solved in the interview:

The input is given as a list of String. a-b means the edge from a to b and the weight it has (you don't need to parse the json),


[
  {
    "str": "a-b",
    "weigth": 2
  },
  {
    "str": "b-c",
    "weigth": 2
  },
    {
    "str": "a-d",
    "weigth": 1
  },
    {
    "str": "d-c",
    "weigth": 5
  }
]

// the answer is "a -> d -> c" with total weight of 6

You need to implement the following method:

int longestPath(Edge[] edge) {}

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