Deactivate not correct if last message is a message to itself

Question

V8048

Hello,

Deactivate is not correct if last message is a message to itself 

@startuml

!pragma teoz true

activate Bob

Bob -> Alice : hello

Bob-> Bob : aaa

'Workaround

'||0||

deactivate Bob

@enduml

 

As workaround, remove the comment before ||0||

Best regards

 

Answer 1

Hi,

for me your solution does not work : see here

Only solution that I have found so far is to explicitly add a return before deactivation, see result here

@startuml
A -> B : start
activate B
B -> B : auto
B --> A
deactivate B
@enduml

Even the beta version, as found in this answer does not solve the issue.

Comments

Hello,

You forget the !pragma teoz true

@startuml
!pragma teoz true
A -> B : start
activate B
B -> B : auto
'B --> A
||0||
deactivate B
@enduml

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you're right with both '!pragma teoz true' & '||0||' it works.

What does '||0||' represent in plantuml syntax?

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||xx|| is space (see sequence description documentation)

Answer 2

Another workaround is to add an hidden mesage (it work also without teoz)

 See On PlantUML server