UML Diagrams and Omnis Studio 5 or 8

Question

Is it possible to generate UML diagrams directly on Omnis studio (tigerlogic) 5 or 8 through some external component maybe ? I was thinking about a class diagram and a sequence diagram...

Answer 1

I've experimented something with the OBrowser and some external JS library, but for now it only has limited support to the class diagram, feel free to look at https://github.com/GiacomoManzoli/OmnisDocUML .

The basic idea is to use the Omnis introspection utilities like $cclass.$methods , $cclass.$ivarsdef and $methods.[methodName].$lvarsdef to define the class field and methods. Then to use the $superclass and the vars definition to define the relationships with other classes. Once the class is correctly represented in Omnis, you can parse the definition in a graphical language, such has DOT (like i did) or nomnoml .

For the sequence diagram i have not did anything yet, maybe something can be done by accessing the method lines or text and parsing the Do and Do method commands.