Plantuml generating invalid link example: [[https://www.plantuml.com]] when written beside alt/else blocks

Question

Hi,

When a link placed beside alt. else boxes or opt etc.. then invalid link is generated by plantuml i.e link starting with "[". Please check below example. May be this is a bug. Please help and let me know if this really isa BUG or have i missed anything.

@startuml
Bob -> Alice : hello
alt [[https://www.plantuml.com]]
 note over Bob: [[https://www.google.com]]
else [[https://www.plantuml.com]]
 note over Bob: [[https://www.google.com]]
end
@enduml

Answer 1

Thanks for the report.

It's really a bug. Right now, you can use the following workaround.

It will be fixed in next release.

Comments

Thanks for the quick reply.