nsdiag group description can intersect with ip address

Question

When grouping nodes and using descriptions for the group, there seems to be no means to keep group descriptions and ip address from being written overtop of each other, making it hard to read.

@startuml
title Bug Demo

nwdiag {
    group Group_1 {
        description = "Group 1";

        Node1;
        Node2;
    }

    group Group_2 {
        description = "Group 2\nMultiline\nDescription";

        Node3;
        Node4;
    }

    group Group_3 {
        description = "Group 3";

        Node5;
        Node6;
    }

    network NetWork_A {
        address = "10.10.1.0/24";

        Node1 [ address = "10.10.1.1" ];
        Node2 [ address = "10.10.1.2" ];
        Node3 [ address = "10.10.1.3" ];
        Node4 [ address = "10.10.1.4" ];
        Node5 [ address = "10.10.1.5, 10.10.1.6, 10.10.1.7, 10.10.1.8" ];
        Node6 [ address = "10.10.1.9, 10.10.1.10, 10.10.1.11, 10.10.1.12" ];
    }

    network NetWork_B {
        address = "10.10.2.0/24";

        Node1 [ address = "10.10.2.1" ];
        Node2 [ address = "10.10.2.2" ];
        Node3 [ address = "10.10.2.3" ];
        Node4 [ address = "10.10.2.4" ];
        Node5 [ address = "10.10.2.5" ];
        Node6 [ address = "10.10.2.6" ];
    }

}
@enduml

Comments

Hello R.,

Awaiting correction about overlapping, a possible workaround is to add some newline '\n':

    network NetWork_A {
        address = "10.10.1.0/24";

        Node1 [ address = "10.10.1.1" ];
        Node2 [ address = "10.10.1.2" ];
        Node3 [ address = "10.10.1.3\n\n\n" ];
        Node4 [ address = "10.10.1.4\n\n\n" ];
        Node5 [ address = "10.10.1.5, 10.10.1.6, 10.10.1.7, 10.10.1.8\n" ];
        Node6 [ address = "10.10.1.9, 10.10.1.10, 10.10.1.11, 10.10.1.12\n" ];
    }

See also other tests here:

• http://alphadoc.plantuml.com/doc/markdown/en/nwdiag-issues#lhiqs303haklkrglfdy7

If that can help,
Regards,
Th.

Answer 1

This is not perfect (there is a large wasted space on the bottom), but this is somehow fixed in last beta.

http://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/uml/ZPDTQuCm58Rl_HK7huSp9-esog0RWrsjjxjOHf4bb31tB37IYz7_Fjt7eatQ9eY-aSVtu0DPThOsjlze4jf9NM_WCu5XRKpRR-5nlA_P-EvtITMz6RsrkYMuXVGR09OkadzYrKh55hCj_cptYLUDvwfHq5FVMDreKe8U72A82K91_70sdyykZixcvsPxrUMykffLaxAxrhp3IjdduRc-czJNKXhLTMCroxFnol9BB3njy192MGgl1qB387eW3uFS0uimM7XW6GRB2_YBbOjNBbvxJLMuwSPzm_99PfFiVlI8_FjJyZ5UFiRAnrZv62iVO-LZLiQvnQoQUjidIqLoEFbV

Note that we have change the layout engine for nwdiag in this beta, so result should be better in some complex case (such as this example)