[Deployment] Could you improve `port` management?

asked Jun 4, 2022 in Wanted features by The-Lu (64,340 points)

Hello PlantUML team,

During test of `port`...

1/ Could you improve `port` management, when we are on horizontal layout:

Here it seems OK (except the overlap at the level of the node name, and the large layout (with position of f3)!):

Code

Output

@startuml
'left to right direction
card c

node node {
  port p1
  port p2
  port p3
  file f1
  file f3
}

c --> p1
c --> p2
c --> p3
p1 --> f1
p2 --> f1
p3 --> f3
@enduml

@startuml
left to right direction
card c

node node {
  port p1
  port p2
  port p3
  file f1
  file f3
}

c --> p1
c --> p2
c --> p3
p1 --> f1
p2 --> f1
p3 --> f3
@enduml

But here KO:

Code

Output

@startuml
'left to right direction
card c

node node {
  port p1
  port p2
  port p3
  file f1
}

c --> p1
c --> p2
c --> p3
p1 --> f1
p2 --> f1
@enduml

@startuml
left to right direction
card c

node node {
  port p1
  port p2
  port p3
  file f1
}

c --> p1
c --> p2
c --> p3
p1 --> f1
p2 --> f1
@enduml

2/ Could you also improve this error:

@startuml
card c
port t
@enduml

Thanks a lot for your works,
Regards.

commented Jun 4, 2022 by The-Lu (64,340 points)

Same issue, with folder or package:

@startuml
'left to right direction
card c

package package {
  port p1
  port p2
  port p3
  file f1
}

c --> p1
c --> p2
c --> p3
p1 --> f1
p2 --> f1
@enduml

commented Apr 25, 2023 by The-Lu (64,340 points)

See also other request here:

https://forum.plantuml.net/16764/misplaced-ports-in-component-diagram

commented May 31, 2023 by The-Lu (64,340 points)

Hello PlantUML team, and all,

That is only partially corrected on the version V1.2022.7 (22 Aug, 2022), and on Oct 18, 2022.

But those defects remain:
1a/1b: OK:

except the large layout (with position of f3)!

2/ OK: Fixed by:

https://github.com/plantuml/plantuml/commit/1928fb31ca862d075696c0e1568d3e441e4510de#diff-aeccd3fb787f7f32bd2605628a80f1c32a83fa45e2f6e628d09867ea857e407c

3/ Allways KO (for folder or package):

@startuml
'left to right direction
card c

package package {
  port p1
  port p2
  port p3
  file f1
}

c --> p1
c --> p2
c --> p3
p1 --> f1
p2 --> f1
@enduml

4/ KO for portout position: