yuml.me macro

[Joshua Rogers]

Before I go and reinvent the wheel, has any one created a macro for yuml.me diagrams?

I found these, but they are quite old (2009!) 

• https://www.atlassian.com/blog/archives/yuml_for_simple_confluence_dia
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmbLGgsIKv8

Just looking at it, I'd love to do a couple extra things with what they outlined here:

• allow multiline body, but replace newline characters with a comma in the GET url.
• Instead of making a macro for each of the three diagram types, include some sort of 'option' that allows the user to specify the diagram type, and use a single macro.
• Add a similar 'option' to optionally specify the drawing style.

Has anyone already done this, and willing to share?

-Josh

[David Willson]

The closest thing I can think of is something like - mermaid diagrams - I found this plugin, looks recent, havn't used it myself, not sure how hard it would be to convert - https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1214124/mermaid-plugin-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

So, I'm afraid I don't have much of any direct use here, but I did want to say that what you're asking for should be achievable if you are happy to delve into some coding, and I think you'll find it is not as complex as you might imagine.

That's based on some old experience (8 years ago) where I was asked to knock up something to enable Confluence to draw a picture of something based on a format like a UML file (this was far more obscure than UML though).  I landed on what I think you have - a macro that can render an attachment as a picture for the user, with some formatting options fed in.

For UML, my instinct is always to reach for the PlantUML app for Confluence, but I do not know if that works with yUML.  If it does not, then my next instinct is to go to the first link you've mentioned there and see if there is a way to do the same thing in later versions.

I'm sorry that this is not really anywhere near a solution.  I just wanted to point out that you've got a good question that deserves an answer, and although I can't get you a direct "fix", there's a bit more to have a look at.