Import DSL/JSON file

[tsauvajon]

Context

Hi!

I started using Structurizr and really like the Structurizr DSL. I started building some diagrams, and would like to supplement them with some code. Since I mainly use Go, this repo looks like a good fit.

Problem

While we can export code diagrams to SVG and/or workspaces, I didn't find a way of doing it the other way around: pulling workspaces, or reading .dsl/.json files.

I would like to do two things:

• read existing diagrams -> generate Go code from them
• read existing diagrams -> generate SVG diagrams from them

Question

Is there a way of doing that with your repo?
If not, where should I look at to get started and start working on it?

[raphael]

That's a great idea and is currently not supported. Fair warning this is probably a bit of work but the idea would be to parse the structurizr JSON into an instance of a Workspace and from there generate the corresponding DSL. It might make sense to leverage Go templates to do that.

[tsauvajon]

It was 6 months ago, but as far as I remember I started trying to un marshal the JSON into a Workspace instance. I don't remember exactly into what issues I ran, but it was indeed more work than I anticipated, so I dropped it.

[raphael]

Happy to answer any question if you feel like taking this on again!