<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>GraphViz is alreary used by Plant UML to produce output PNG file, see 'image generation chain' below:</div><div>* umlgen.py walks through MuranoPL class(es) and generated temporary file which contains Plant UML definitions for the entire graph</div>
<div>* Plant UML is called with that file as input</div><div>* Plant UML processes input file somehow and uses GraphViz to build output image</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Ed Cranford <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ed.cranford@rackspace.com" target="_blank">ed.cranford@rackspace.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
What about Graphviz?<br>
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On 4/1/14, 1:34 PM, "Timur Sufiev" <<a href="mailto:tsufiev@mirantis.com">tsufiev@mirantis.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
>Hello!<br>
><br>
>Recently we've made an attempt to make MuranoPL class definitions more<br>
>conceivable for everyone, and decided to use UML diagrams for that<br>
>purpose. The most obvious (and quick) solution was to use a well-known<br>
>tool [1], the command-line script which uses it is almost ready [2],<br>
>and the final result seems quite satisfying to us [3] (pictures are<br>
>drawn using current version of script). Moreover, we liked these<br>
>diagrams so much that decided to show them also in Murano's WebUI<br>
>(right after the uploaded App Package has been validated).<br>
><br>
>But we're little uncertain about using Java-based tool in the long<br>
>run: it doesn't seem to fit very well with OpenStack common practices.<br>
>So could you advice some good enough Python and/or Javascript library<br>
>for generating UML diagrams? The most important criteria is an ability<br>
>to produce graphics as beautiful as Plant UML does.<br>
><br>
>[1] <a href="http://plantuml.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://plantuml.sourceforge.net/</a><br>
>[2] <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/83348/" target="_blank">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/83348/</a><br>
>[3]<br>
><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pesyejyjo624o34/fCe1_OM-OH#lh:null-io.murano.En" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pesyejyjo624o34/fCe1_OM-OH#lh:null-io.murano.En</a><br>
>vironment.png<br>
><br>
>--<br>
>Timur Sufiev<br>
><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks,</div>Dmitry Teselkin<br>Deployment Engineer<br>
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