hide unlinked results in error for the following code

Question

this fails with error in plantuml.1.2017.13.jar

however worked fine in plantuml.1.2017.12.jar

 

@startuml aaa.svg

 

!definelong a(unlinked_handling)

participant a

participant b

participant c

 

unlinked_handling

a->b:hi

!enddefinelong

 

 

a(hide unlinked)

@enduml

Answer 1

Thanks for the feedback.

Your example should work with last beta (1.2017.14beta 6)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/koo42q3d9gxw288/plantuml.jar?dl=0

Tell us if it's not working for you!

Comments

This simple example fails in 1.2017.14beta 6:

@startuml
    !definelong test_me()
        a->b:test
    !enddefinelong
    test_me()
@enduml


Result SVG is:
@startuml
a->b:test
()
Syntax Error?
Did you mean:
(-)

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When there are no argument in a macro, you should use it that way:
@startuml
!definelong test_me
    a->b:test
!enddefinelong
test_me
@enduml
Is it working better that way ?

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Yes, this works, but it will take to update all existing diags
Could we continue to support the test_me() notation for a macro without args?

Also, when reading a code the notation test_me() will look less confusing.

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Ok, we'll give a try. We'll post a message here when a new beta will be ready

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many thanks!

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You can try beta 7 here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/koo42q3d9gxw288/plantuml.jar?dl=0
This has not been widely tested, so feedback welcome!

Thanks

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thanks! worked ok for me