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| Rather than writing UML diagrams by hand, we can generate them from existing | ||
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| Universal Modeling Language (UML) diagrams are a common way to visually | ||
| represent software components (such as classes and functions). When reviewing | ||
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Sometimes these diagrams are automatically generated as part of the automated documentation (e.g. Doxygen). It may be worth mentioning that one can just check if that's the case for the software you're dealing with. (https://fuelcycle.org/cyclus/classcyclus_1_1Agent.html)
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| `clang-uml` uses `clang`, and as such requires the `compile_commands.json` file. | ||
| The creator of `clang-uml` wrote a [blog | ||
| post](https://blog.bkryza.com/posts/compile-commands-json-gallery/) blog post |
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| | C++ | [clang-uml](https://clang-uml.github.io/index.html) | | ||
| | Python | [pyreverse](https://pylint.pycqa.org/en/latest/additional_tools/pyreverse/index.html) | |
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I think you should be able to just use the native "inheritance diagram" functionality inside sphinx (which is probably what folks are using for automated documentation anyway).
Alternatively, if that's somehow not working and your tool already uses sphinx for documentation, there's a compatible tool called PlantUML. https://github.com/sphinx-contrib/plantuml
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| The most common type of UML diagram is the _class diagram_. This represents the | ||
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static state seems redundant.
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| The most common type of UML diagram is the _class diagram_. This represents the | ||
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I don't see any UML diagram example here.
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This table is a little squished, so I'll make separate pr to update the bootstrap css and add some padding.
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Sorry I jumped the gun. Just realized this was a draft PR. |
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| subtitle: "Generating UML Diagrams" |
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This is a little redundant.
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| subtitle: "Generating UML Diagrams" | |
| title: Inheritance Diagrams | |
| subtitle: "Generating Inheritance Diagrams with UML" |
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@yardasol -- pinging. |
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This PR adds a page describing UML diagrams and points to some tools for generating them.
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