manual123 / cppToUML

Convert C++ files to plantuml

cppToUML

Convert C++ files to plantuml

Usage:

Test the script from the git repo-root by running it with file input:

perl -Ilib cppToUML.pl example/\*

or piped input

cat example/* | perl -Ilib cppToUML.pl

Any of the methods can be combined with plantuml to generate a png by adding an extra pipe

cat example/* | perl -Ilib cppToUML.pl | plantuml -pipe > example.png 

Where -Ilib is needed to find the StoreClass module. The end result of the above command is:

Assumptions

Classes/structs and their member parameters and functions all start on a newline with 0 or more space/tab indentation. The occurence of }; on an empty row is interpreted as done parsing current class.

A class or struct followed by : is parsed for inheritance until reading an opening brace.

Covers the following cases

• Single line member functions
• Single line member variables
• Nested classes
• public, private and protected access modifiers.
• Multiline inheritance
• Multiline comments using /**/
• Multiline member functions
• Multiline member variables
• Template member functions
• Template classes