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Is there a human-readable and text-based representation of a Component diagram?

I'm looking for a text-based representation of a component diagram that does these things:

  1. A human can read and understand the diagram just by looking at the text
  2. The text can be rendered into a diagram
  3. Simple. No fancy features. Basically just need boxes, arrows, and labels.

Here is a great example of what I'm looking for but with sequence diagrams: http://www.websequencediagrams.com/

Does such a language/format exist for component diagrams?

Solution

  • You can use plantuml. It can render component diagrams from text, like you want. You will need to install Graphviz for making diagrams. Example of text to UML :

    @startuml

DataAccess - [First Component] 
[First Component] ..> HTTP : use

@enduml

    enter image description here

    There are other textual UML notations, you can check them here.