How to display nested tree like structure in a class body

Question

Hello, 

I want to display a tree like structure in a class. But to be able to display the whitespaces (for nesting), I have to place a character beforehand. Currently I'm using "backtick" because it's the smallest character I can imagine.

Is there any escape character or flag exists for this purpose? Or is there any way to  decrase the tab (\t) size? 

http://www.plantuml.com:80/plantuml/png/Iyv9B2vMSClFh-RIqd9ABDBmpKz9pT7KqkAgYLSeACel0D50cVnSX4o20bJE2CXKW76CkHGG71C5AmqkNLskMW00

 

Thanks,

Answer 1

Hi,

We really like your idea. Unfortunatly, there is no other option today.

However, we've built a beta version that does not remove extra heading spaces.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13064071/plantuml.jar

With this beta, you can simply have:

@startuml

class Foo{

**Bar(Model)**

|_ prop

|_ **Bom(Model)**

  |_ prop2

  |_ prop3

    |_ prop3.1

|_ prop4 :(

--

}

@enduml

 

And we will add this new syntax in the creole parser, so that |_ could be renderer as a real tree.

 

Thanks for the suggestion : we will post a message here when this will be ready.

 

Comments

Thank you, it's much appreciated.

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This has not been very tested, but should be working with last beta:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13064071/plantuml.jar
Is this what you were expecting ?
Regards,

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This is documented at http://wiki.plantuml.net/site/creole#tree