[openstack-dev] [Murano] MuranoPL => UML visualization <- best implementation practices?

Ed Cranford ed.cranford at RACKSPACE.COM
Tue Apr 1 19:25:32 UTC 2014


What about Graphviz?

On 4/1/14, 1:34 PM, "Timur Sufiev" <tsufiev at mirantis.com> wrote:

>Hello!
>
>Recently we've made an attempt to make MuranoPL class definitions more
>conceivable for everyone, and decided to use UML diagrams for that
>purpose. The most obvious (and quick) solution was to use a well-known
>tool [1], the command-line script which uses it is almost ready [2],
>and the final result seems quite satisfying to us [3] (pictures are
>drawn using current version of script). Moreover, we liked these
>diagrams so much that decided to show them also in Murano's WebUI
>(right after the uploaded App Package has been validated).
>
>But we're little uncertain about using Java-based tool in the long
>run: it doesn't seem to fit very well with OpenStack common practices.
>So could you advice some good enough Python and/or Javascript library
>for generating UML diagrams? The most important criteria is an ability
>to produce graphics as beautiful as Plant UML does.
>
>[1] http://plantuml.sourceforge.net/
>[2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/83348/
>[3] 
>https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pesyejyjo624o34/fCe1_OM-OH#lh:null-io.murano.En
>vironment.png
>
>-- 
>Timur Sufiev
>
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