How to alternative way (!pic2plot) to generate sequence diagrams from some declarative textual form?
There is pic2plot component from UMLGraph to draw sequence diagrams (sequence.pic).
Input format is like:
.PS
copy "/usr/local/lib/sequence.pic";
object(N0,"0");
object(N1,"1");
step();
message(N0,N0,"doSomething()");
message(N0,N1,"callFunction()");
step();
.PE
The main disadvantage is that it is based on pic2plot which looks abandoned, fails to handle UTF-8 and have hard-to-find 开发者_运维知识库documentation (even man plotutils does not have a full set of useful man pages
).
Is there alternatives draw sequence diagrams from simple text-based input without GUI?
Note: Now using this hack:
cat mpiseq.pic | u8h | pic2plot -T svg | xml2 | perl -pe 's!/svg/\@height=8in!/svg/\@height=32in!; s!/svg/\@viewBox=0 0 1 1!/svg/\@viewBox=0 -0.2 1 3.8!' | 2xml | h8u | svg
u8h/h8u masks/unmasks UTF-8 characters as sequence of hex digits (protected by signatures)
In fact, there are several alternatives. Take a look at this list of textual UML tools
I've tried sdedit
, which couldn't even process its own example!
Among the myriad of tools, plantuml stands out in my book: can handle pretty complex features with crisp clear syntax.
@startuml
Alice->Bob : hello
note left: this is a first note
Bob->Alice : ok
note right: this is another note
Bob->Bob : I am thinking
note left
a note
can also be defined
on several lines
end note
@enduml
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