grunt-websequencediagrams

Grunt plugin to allow UML sequence diagrams to be created, using WebSequenceDiagrams.com.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.4

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-websequencediagrams --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-websequencediagrams');

The "websequencediagrams" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named websequencediagrams to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  websequencediagrams: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    },
  },
});

Input Files

The files to convert follow a format described on the examples page of WebSequenceDiagrams.com. The examples below use the following input:

title Authentication Sequence

Alice->Bob: Authentication Request
note right of Bob: Bob thinks about it
Bob->Alice: Authentication Response

Options

See websequencediagrams for more information about options.

options.outputType

Type: String Default value: 'png'

A string value that is used to indicate the type of output to generate. Valid output types are 'png', 'svg' and 'pdf'.

options.styles

Type: String Default value: 'modern-blue'

A string value that is used to indicate which output style should be used.

Usage Examples

Default Options

In this example, the default options are used to create a PNG image using the 'modern blue' style.

grunt.initConfig({
  websequencediagrams: {
    options: {},
    your_target: {
      files: {
        'doc/default.png': ['doc/sequence.uml'],
      },
    },
  },
});

Custom Options

In this example, custom options are used to create an SVG image using the 'napkin' style.

grunt.initConfig({
  websequencediagrams: {
    options: {
      outputType: 'svg',
      style: 'napkin'
    },
    your_target: {
      files: {
        'doc/default.svg': ['doc/sequence.uml'],
      },
    },
  },
});

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Acknowledgements

All of the hard word is done by Joe Hildebrand's websequencediagrams module. This module is simply a thin wrapper around it to make it Gruntable.

Release History

2015-11-20 (v0.3.2)

• Fix test of multiple files. Thanks to @jfritzbarnes.

2015-01-27 (v0.3.1)

• Add missing 's' to domain in README. Thanks to @Sadrak.

2014-12-31 (v0.3.0)

• Allow processing of more than one file. Closes #3. Thanks to @Alexey1Gavrilov.

2014-11-14 (v0.2.2)

• Fix README to include target. Closes #1. Thanks to @chrono.

2014-03-17 (v0.2.0)

• Initial release.