maxAsciiMessageLength dosn't work

Question

Hi,
It looks that skinparam maxAsciiMessageLength dosn't work. Therefore, I need to use manual line brake '\n'.

@startuml
skinparam maxAsciiMessageLength 50
participant a
participant b
a -> b :0123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
a -> b :return 0123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678\n901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
@enduml

Comments

is it possible to introduce maxAsciiMessageLength in sequence diagram?

Answer 1

All those settings are not very consistent, and we should probably implement something easier to understand, but there is a maxMessageSize setting :

@startuml
skinparam maxMessageSize 50
participant a
participant b
a -> b :this is a very long message on several words
a -> b :0123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
a -> b :return 0123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678\n901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
@enduml

Comments

Many thanks. The maxMessageSize is also fine to me.