Plant2Code

Plant2Code can be used to generate (currently only PHP) classes from your plantuml class diagramm. It converts the plantuml class diagramm into XMI and creates the target language class files based on the XMI declarations.

Requirements

• current Java RE (on Mac the JDK is required) - don't know about Windows systems, I didn't and will not test there.
• PHP >= 7.x
• Composer

Installation

Global

Install:

$ composer global require mk-conn/plant2code

Update:

$ composer global update mk-conn/plant2code

Somewhere in a folder of your choise

Clone or download this repository. Run composer install --no-dev from the root directory (omit the --no-dev option, if you intend to develop in this project). Done.

Within a project

In your composer.json:

"require": {
    ...
    "mk-conn/plant2code": "^v1.0.0"
  },

Running

From global

$ plant2code puml:convert path/to/input.puml --output="path/to/output/dir" [--lang="php"] [--root-ns="SomeNamespace"]

• --output Optional output directory (must exists) where classes are written to. Defaults to the folder where the *.puml input files is stored.
• --lang: Optional target language - defaults to PHP
• --root-ns: Optional root namespace - this will be prepend to the detected namespaces

From project directoy

path/to/plant2code $ bin/plant2code puml:convert path/to/input.puml --output="path/to/output/dir" [--lang="php"] [--root-ns="SomeNamespace"]

Output

Success:

Failure:

Tips

Although it is possible to write class properties and methods like this in plantuml:

class Test {
    string #name // or #string name
}

the required syntax for plant2code to work correctly is:

class Test {
    #name : string
    
    +update(arg1 : int, arg2 string)
}

Features not yet implemented

• option to format code output
• more languages (Java, Ruby, JavaScript)

Thanks

Thanks goes out to the plantuml developers who let me use the binary plantuml.jar which is distributed under LGPL. And another big thanks to the developers who implemented my suggestions and wishes in no time very quick!