{"id":13482,"date":"2021-08-06T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/?p=13482"},"modified":"2021-10-04T16:58:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T20:58:17","slug":"m2uml","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2021\/08\/06\/m2uml\/","title":{"rendered":"m2uml"},"content":{"rendered":" \r\n
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Sean<\/a>'s pick this week is m2uml<\/a> by per isakson<\/a>.<\/div>\r\n
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Table of Contents<\/span><\/div>\r\n
m2uml\r\n<\/a>MATLAB's Class Diagram Viewer in R2021a\r\n<\/a>Comments<\/a><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

m2uml<\/h2>\r\n
Have you ever had (or inherited!) a lot of classes that you want to visualize in a graphical way to understand their relationships and capabilities? This submission takes a set of MATLAB classes and exports UML that can be visualized in various third party tools. I have a set of classes that I want to visualize, so I create the list and the UML:<\/div>\r\n
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list = {'Content.Applicator'<\/span>,'Content.FileSet'<\/span>,'Content.Selectors.Selector'<\/span>,'Content.Selectors.All'<\/span>, ...<\/span><\/span><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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'Content.Selectors.ExcludeXML'<\/span>, 'Content.Selectors.Extension'<\/span>, 'Content.Selectors.File'<\/span>, ...<\/span><\/span><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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'Content.Selectors.Folder'<\/span>, 'Content.Selectors.Git'<\/span>, 'Content.Selectors.All'<\/span>, 'Content.Converters.Converter'<\/span>, ...<\/span><\/span><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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'Content.Converters.FilesToZip'<\/span>, 'Content.Converters.HTMLToWord'<\/span>, 'Content.Converters.MarkdownToHTML'<\/span>, ...<\/span><\/span><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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'Content.Converters.PowerPointToPDF'<\/span>, 'Content.Converters.SimulinkToWebview'<\/span>}.';<\/span><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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m2uml.create_PlantUML_script('Classes'<\/span>, list);<\/span><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
This writes to a file whos contents I now pasted into a third party interpreter. The display shows me the class relationships, namespaces, as well as each method and property with icon-coded attributes. There are lots of new features in the most recent update, including full integrated documentation and nested packages (which is required for the below diagram).<\/div>\r\n
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MATLAB's Class Diagram Viewer in R2021a<\/h2>\r\n
Starting in MATLAB R2021a, MATLAB has a native class diagram viewer<\/a>. You can either call this from the command line or open it from a project. This then lets you explore hierarchies, attributes, etc. of a set of classes natively in MATLAB.<\/div>\r\n
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matlab.diagram.ClassViewer(\"Packages\"<\/span>, \"Content\"<\/span>)<\/span><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Comments<\/h2>\r\n
Have you wanted to visualize classes in MATLAB? Now you have two ways to do it! Give these a try and let us know what you think here<\/a> or leave a comment<\/a> for per.<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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