liquisketch 0.1.1

Liquibase in, diagrams out. Sketch your schema from your changelog.

LiquiSketch

Liquibase in, diagrams out - sketch your schema straight from your changelog.

LiquiSketch is a Python utility that reads Liquibase changelogs and produces schema diagrams to help teams understand structure, relationships, and change history.

Why LiquiSketch

• Keep schema docs aligned with migration history
• Reduce manual diagram maintenance
• Improve onboarding and design reviews
• Catch schema drift earlier

Quick Start (development)

From a clone of this repository:

pip install -e ".[dev]"
make check

Installation

From PyPI

Install the published package (requires Python 3.11+):

pip install liquisketch

This installs the liquisketch package and the liquisketch console script (see Command line).

From the GitHub repository

Install the latest default branch without cloning:

pip install "git+https://github.com/starforge-universe/liquisketch.git"

Pin a tag or branch:

pip install "git+https://github.com/starforge-universe/liquisketch.git@v1.0.1"
pip install "git+https://github.com/starforge-universe/liquisketch.git@main"

Editable install from a local clone

For development, install in editable mode from the repo root:

git clone https://github.com/starforge-universe/liquisketch.git
cd liquisketch
pip install -e ".[dev]"

Usage

Command line

After installation, run liquisketch with two positional arguments:

1. CHANGELOG — path to your Liquibase master changelog XML (for example changelog-master.xml).
2. OUTPUT — path where the Draw.io diagram should be written (for example schema.drawio).

liquisketch path/to/changelog-master.xml path/to/output.drawio

Verbose logging (Liquibase parsing and Draw.io sync details):

liquisketch -v path/to/changelog-master.xml path/to/output.drawio

You can also invoke the package as a module (same arguments):

python -m liquisketch path/to/changelog-master.xml path/to/output.drawio

Show help:

liquisketch --help

Example with the repository test fixture

liquisketch tests/db/changelog-master.xml tests/db/schema.drawio

Synchronization behavior

• Creates the output file when it does not exist.
• Synchronizes tables, columns, and foreign keys with the changelog-derived schema.
• Removes diagram elements that no longer exist in schema.
• Keeps the original diagram format when updating an existing file:
  • compressed stays compressed
  • uncompressed stays uncompressed
• New files are written as uncompressed Draw.io XML.

Python API

from pathlib import Path

from liquisketch.drawio import sync_schema_to_drawio
from liquisketch.liquibase import load_database_schema_from_master_changelog

schema = load_database_schema_from_master_changelog(Path("tests/db/changelog-master.xml"))
sync_schema_to_drawio(Path("tests/db/schema.drawio"), schema)

Project Layout

liquisketch/
├── liquisketch/        # Package source
├── tests/              # Test suite
├── pyproject.toml      # Packaging and tooling configuration
├── Makefile            # Development commands
├── CONTRIBUTING.md     # Contributor workflow
└── README.md           # Project overview

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for setup, workflow, and PR expectations.

License

This project is licensed under LICENSE.