Accept hexagon with smetana [Deployment diagram]

Question

Hello PlantUML,

- Now: combinatorial is more and more -

• Could you accept hexagon element with smetana (the internal Java port of GraphViz/Dot embedded in PlantUML sources)?

Here is the result of the test:

element	node	hexagon
code	@startuml !pragma graphviz_dot smetana node h [ more and more combinatorial ] @enduml	@startuml !pragma graphviz_dot smetana hexagon h [ more and more combinatorial ] @enduml
output
result	OK with node	KO (NullPointerException) with hexagon

Thanks for your support,
Regards,
Th.

Comments

Hello PlantUML,

Idem (NullPointerException) with:

!pragma layout smetana

Regards,
Th.

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Hello PlantUML team,

• Could you have a look on this 'NullPointerException'?

For the theme gallery, I wanted to use 'smetana' to avoid installing GraphViz, but I keep getting this error... (in the diagrams that contains a hexagon...)

Thanks for yours works,
Th.

Answer 1

I had a quick look but do not understand that part of the code enough.

Comments

This one is hard to fix, because it has an impact on the portage C-to-Java of graphviz library (portage which is not finished...)

A first and quick fix could to be to simply ignore the hexagon (and draw a rectangle instead).

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Ok, no problem...

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In C4-Stdlib a rectangle based "octagon" (via skinparam DiagonalCorner 18)  is used instead of the hexagon (I think it has the better text layout at all).

@startuml
skinparam DiagonalCorner 18
!pragma layout smetana
rectangle h [
more
and
more
combinatorial
]
@enduml

BR Helmut

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Thats very nice 

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Thanks a lot @Kirchsth,

But DiagonalCorner also affects agent...

@startuml
skinparam DiagonalCorner 18
!pragma layout smetana

agent agent
rectangle rectangle
@enduml

Then:

• either I install Graphviz,
• either I wait for the correction in Smetana...
  and in the meantime I do not use the hexagon.

Ok, no problem...
Regards,
Th.

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OK, my description was too short

@startuml
!pragma layout smetana

skinparam rectangle<<octagon>> {
    DiagonalCorner 18
}

agent agent
rectangle rectangle
rectangle service <<octagon>>
@enduml

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Ah! OK. Thank a lot. 

But with style and new [beta] style, I no longer use skinparam and I forgot all about skinparam...

Regards.