Please make PlantUML gracefully handle generated image files when they are read-only

Question

PlantUML should have an option to overwrite read-only files when new images are generated.

Many version control systems leave files in a read-only state. PlantUML should be able to overwrite these files if desired.

Suggestion: PlantUML should check if any of the image files being generated exist and are read-only. If they are, it should prompt the user before overwriting with something like the following:

The file "Image.jpg" is read-only. Do you want to overwrite it?
Yes / No / Overwrite All / Overwrite None

Answer 1

Hello,

We have added a flag -overwrite in the command line. You can use the following beta
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13064071/plantuml.jar

java -jar plantuml.jar -overwrite -verbose foo1.txt

We have also added a flag in the ant task:

<target name="main">
    <plantuml dir="./src" overwrite="true" />
</target>

Is it ok for you ?
 

Comments

Thank you for your prompt response. This solution does simplify my usage of PlantUML.

However, without the "-overwrite" command-line option, PlantUML is still not handling read-only files gracefully. In both the command prompt and the GUI interface, there is no indication or warning that the read-only UML images were not generated. It just appears that PlantUML does not work.

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Ok, you can try this new version:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13064071/plantuml.jar

Without the flag "-overwrite", the command line displays an error message. In the GUI, images are simply not displayed. This not perfect : an error message would probably be better.