generate-plantuml-action

Generate uml diagrams with Plantuml Server and push them to your repository.

This action ease you to maintain UML. UML is very useful, but there are some difficulties to maintain. PlantUML enables you to write UML with text code, that is engineer-friendly so you would like it.

This actions generate UML diagrams from plantuml code with PlantUML Server when you commit plantUML files or Markdown files that plantuml code is written in.

PlantUML files must end in either of

• .pu
• .pml
• .puml
• .plantuml

Markdown files must end in

• .md
• .markdown
• .mdown
• .mkdn
• .mdwn
• .mkd
• .mdn
• .md.txt

Usage

This Action subscribes to Push events.

name: generate plantuml
on: push
jobs:
  generate_plantuml:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: plantuml
    steps:
    - name: checkout
      uses: actions/checkout@v1
      with:
        fetch-depth: 1
    - name: plantuml
      id: plantuml
      uses: grassedge/generate-plantuml-action@v1.5
      with:
        path: example
        message: "Render PlantUML files"
      env:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

input

• path : specify the path to save generated svg files
  the default (.) saves each SVG file in the same folder as the source file it was generated from
• message : specify the commit message for the commit of generated svg files (defaults to Render PlantUML files)

env

• GITHUB_TOKEN : required GitHub Token of your repository to commit svg files.

Demo

see examples here.

License

The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the MIT License.