seqdiag 0.9.1

seqdiag generates sequence-diagram image from text

seqdiag generate sequence-diagram image file from spec-text file.

Features

• Generate sequence-diagram from dot like text (basic feature).

• Multilingualization for node-label (utf-8 only).

You can get some examples and generated images on blockdiag.com .

Setup

Use easy_install or pip:

$ sudo easy_install seqdiag

Or

$ sudo pip seqdiag

Copy and modify ini file. example:

$ cp <seqdiag installed path>/blockdiag/examples/simple.diag .
$ vi simple.diag

Please refer to spec-text setting sample section for the format of the simpla.diag configuration file.

spec-text setting sample

Few examples are available. You can get more examples at blockdiag.com .

simple.diag

simple.diag is simply define nodes and transitions by dot-like text format:

diagram {
  browser  -> webserver [label = "GET /index.html"];
  browser <-- webserver;
  browser  -> webserver [label = "POST /blog/comment"];
              webserver  -> database [label = "INSERT comment"];
              webserver <-- database;
  browser <-- webserver;
}

Usage

Execute seqdiag command:

$ seqdiag simple.diag
$ ls simple.png
simple.png

Requirements

• Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4

• Pillow 2.2.1 or later

• funcparserlib 0.3.6 or later

• reportlab (optional)

• wand and imagemagick (optional)

• setuptools

License

Apache License 2.0

History

0.9.1 (2014-06-23)

• Add options to blockdiag directive (docutils extension)

  • width:

  • height:

  • scale:

  • align:

  • name:

  • class:

  • figwidth:

  • figclass:

0.9.0 (2013-10-05)

• Support python 3.2 and 3.3 (thanks to @masayuko)

• Drop supports for python 2.4 and 2.5

• Replace dependency: PIL -> Pillow

0.8.2 (2013-02-09)

• Fix bugs

0.8.1 (2012-11-12)

• Add altblock feature (experimental)

• Fix bugs

0.8.0 (2012-10-22)

• Optimize algorithm for rendering shadow

• Add options to docutils directive

• Fix bugs

0.7.5 (2012-09-29)

• Fix bugs

0.7.4 (2012-09-20)

• Support blockdiag-1.1.7 interface

• Fix bugs

0.7.3 (2012-03-16)

• Allow to insert separators in subedge-group

• Fix bugs

0.7.2 (2011-12-12)

• Fix bugs

0.7.1 (2011-11-30)

• Fix bugs

0.7.0 (2011-11-19)

• Add fontfamily attribute for switching fontface

• Fix bugs

0.6.3 (2011-11-06)

• Add docutils extention

• Fix bugs

0.6.2 (2011-11-01)

• Add class feature (experimental)

0.6.1 (2011-11-01)

• Follow blockdiag-0.9.7 interface

0.6.0 (2011-10-28)

• Add edge attributes: note, rightnote, leftnote, notecolor

• Add diagram atteribute: default_note_color

0.5.2 (2011-10-27)

• Implement auto edge height adjusting

• Fix bugs

0.5.1 (2011-10-24)

• Fix bugs

0.5.0 (2011-10-21)

• Add diagram attributes: activation, autonumber

• Add edge attribute: failed

• Add separator syntax

0.4.3 (2011-10-19)

• Follow blockdiag-0.9.5 interface

0.4.2 (2011-10-11)

• Fix bugs

0.4.1 (2011-09-30)

• Add diagram attribute: default_text_color

• Add node attribte: textcolor

• Fix bugs

0.4.0 (2011-09-26)

• Add diagram attributes: default_node_color, default_group_color and default_line_color

0.3.8 (2011-08-02)

• Allow dot characters in node_id

• Fix bugs

0.3.7 (2011-07-05)

• Fix bugs

0.3.6 (2011-07-03)

• Support input from stdin

0.3.5 (2011-06-02)

• Fix bugs

0.3.4 (2011-05-18)

• Fix bugs

0.3.3 (2011-05-16)

• Add –version option

• Add sphinxhelper module

0.3.2 (2011-05-14)

• Render group label

• Support blockdiag 0.8.1 core interface

0.3.1 (2011-04-22)

• Render group label

• Fix sphinxcontrib_seqdiag does not work with seqdiag 0.3.0

0.3.0 (2011-04-22)

• Add group syntax

0.2.7 (2011-04-15)

• Adjust start coordinates of edges

0.2.6 (2011-04-14)

• Fix bugs

• Allow unquoted utf8 characters

0.2.5 (2011-03-26)

• Fix seqdiag could not run under blockdiag 0.7.6

0.2.4 (2011-03-20)

• Fix bugs

0.2.3 (2011-03-09)

• Fix bugs

0.2.2 (2011-03-07)

• Fix could not run under python 2.4

• Support edge colors

0.2.1 (2011-02-28)

• Add default_shape attribute to diagram

0.2.0 (2011-02-27)

• Add metrix parameters for edge label: edge_height, edge_length

• Fix bugs

0.1.7 (2011-01-21)

• Fix TeX exporting in Sphinx extension

0.1.6 (2011-01-15)

• Support blockdiag-0.6.3

• Fix bugs

0.1.5 (2011-01-15)

• Draw activity on lifelines

• Support both direction edge with ‘=>’ operator

0.1.4 (2011-01-13)

• Change synxtax around edges

0.1.3 (2011-01-12)

• Support diagonal edge

• Fix bugs

0.1.2 (2011-01-11)

• Support nested edges

• Add edge attributes; return, dir

• Add sphinx extention module(sphinxcontrib_seqdiag)

• Fix bugs

0.1.1 (2011-01-11)

• Fix bugs about layouting

0.1.0 (2011-01-08)

• first release