Weird stereotype sprite alignment in rectangle and database containers

Question

I've been using <<sterotypes>> on containers to represent technology choices which invariable displays nicely in the center, typically along with the container's name:

Trying to add a little iconography to diagrams I've started using <<$sprite>> stereotypes instead but have found that the alignment is oddly right aligned for rectangles, and just plain broken for databases:

For reference, other containers behave as expected:

Answer 1

Many thanks for the feedback.

The "database" issue has been fixed in last beta http://beta.plantuml.net/plantuml.jar

The "rectangle" behaviour have been done upon request of some users, so changing this will be more difficult (we may provide a setting to choose alignment).

Regards,

BTW, cloudinsight has been integrated in last release ( http://plantuml.com/stdlib ), so you can write:

@startuml
!include <cloudinsight/java>

database MyApp <<$java>> {
  class ClassName
}
@enduml

Comments

Wow. The rectangle behaviour being intentionally inconsistent with the others is really surprising.

If you're willing to consider a new skinparam to configure the alignment could you give me some outline hints as to where changes would need to be made? I've had a brief look at https://github.com/plantuml/plantuml but it's not at all clear to me where to start working on such a pull request.

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Hey, did you know if there was a consideration for a skinparam for stereotype as mentioned above? This is the only thread I've found that's related to what I would be interested - fixing the display of Nodes in Archimate:

http://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/png/bP51R_em3CNl-HGM_x-qKxNjNY4GOzjX6XBqigDfJHejJL3YCbNJllj2w0f82sAzDBPVVizwcNX6nssZXNzNPeiE6t1KCXgf2Ju5X6zLOsK_b97mYDgJ-18dOcEhb2xsc1nPxhOqrKgQXWo3KxBcSyfWcUThgd6dREjGZySzUMbRKysiC-JW_axixnwN72t91tb98q0FgvyAylm_kh9M3JBTUdRX9xlCzUF0_hSgbjDY_lHs2flX5jTAA-uEk6ET09Q3823FrazQXAadM6nWMhAofZUAtKCdPHKbcTra66KN3KLycL51PMsijhA31zgfFgNYS3xtuK6QLN6yvnNpsVFhucMn9zuCsgFFXVX_oJo1k1ZwLKcdmDT4_OTynOHCrJRw6m00

for example.

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Could you post a specific question about Nodes in Archimate ? I'm not sure to understand the issue. Thanks!