how to ad a subcomponent to a "long comment" component?

Question

This page https://plantuml.com/en/component-diagram contains an example of a component with a long comment as follows:

@startuml
component comp1 [
This component
has a long comment
on several lines
]
@enduml

What would be the syntax that adds a subcomponent of the comp1?

Answer 1

Hello B., and all,

Here is a proposal:

@startuml
component "This component\nhas a long comment\non several lines\n" as C {
  component C1
  file F
  node N
}
@enduml

Enjoy,
If that can help,
Regards.
Th.

Comments

thank you!

so, from the code perspective the long comment is, in fact, the same as component name/title?

Then the [] notation is just some legacy way to achieve the same?

I was thinking the comment is apart of the title and that you could do something like:

component "Name" as myName [

   Name description

   in the long comment

] {
  component SubComponent1
}