Please support PHP namespace separator

Question

First - thanks for plantuml.  Started using it yesterday and able to generate drawings a lot faster than by any other method I found so far.  the Netbeans plugin is great.

So I am a PHP dev.  Namespaces in PHP use the backslash '\'.   I figured out how to do this for class names e.g.

class "\\Foo\\Type\\StringType"

but trying to set a namespaceSeparator doesn't work.  I tried

set namespaceSeparator "\\"

set namespaceSeparator "\\\\"

set namespaceSeparator \\

set namespaceSeparator \

All fail  either giving an error or not auto creating namespace packages as expected.  So can you add support for backslashes into your inevitably long list of 2Dos please.

Answer 1

Hello,

As usually, there are some tricks with the backslash...
First, as you have figurated it out, you have to double it.
Second, there is a not-very-documented feature in PlantUML that allows to split a line
into several lines, putting a \ at the end.
Example:
@startuml
Alice -> Bob : this comment \
is on a line
@enduml
http://www.plantuml.com:80/plantuml/img/Syp9J4vLqBLJSCfFKh1IACd8B5P8pi_DJSqhKOZX0dBoynGI5N8oyr81

Unfortunalty, this is clashing with "set namespaceSeparator \\".
A possible turn-around is to put a white space after the \\: "set namespaceSeparator \\ "
This would prevent the line to be merged.

So finally, you can use:

@startuml
'put a whitespace after the \\ in the next line, otherwhise the line will be merged with the next one
set namespaceSeparator \\
class X1\\X2\\foo {
  some info
}
@enduml

http://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/img/HOqn3W8X54HxJZ6TZOrUnMOBckywAoJ09_3DcXZlBajZDsycatUgBuEWLra9sOmD5WZl4SjCXMz3YeLdwE2sXzWvbwF47bF2dSXiJpu6MlZVjD1r6efaJiEDLPgOjaFWrYIzOxbulroztrJnSK3Np27Vr7r_

We will fix the whitespace issue in the next release : lines ending with 2 backslashes will not be merged.

Regards, and happy UML

Comments

Hello,

Thank you also for PlantUML. I'm in the exact same case as the previous user, I used it since... 1 hour and I was quite happy to find this answer.

However, it seems that it does not work using the namespace declaration:

@startuml
set namespaceSeparator \\
namespace \\Foo\\Bar
    class MyClass
end namespace
@enduml

Is there any workaround or maybe am I doing it wrong?

Thanks for your help.

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Hello,

If I use either of the examples beneath, it will not work:

set namespaceSeparator \\
class CustomerController extends App\\Http\\Controllers\\Controller {
     some info
}

@enduml

Or:

@startuml

set namespaceSeparator \\

CustomerController --|> App\\Http\\Controllers\\Controller

@enduml

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Thanks for the report.
This has been fixed in last beta https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13064071/plantuml.jar

Tell us if it's working for you.
Regards,