Diagrams

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This part is a demonstrator to show a possible usage of the python bindings.

Its aim is to put the knowledge about the IMD16 into an automatically generated UML diagram which is never touched afterward. Usecase is the developer or data model designer who always writes Interlis models directly as text and wants an easy documentation through GitOps based workflows.

Since the approach is purely automatic, it has its limitations. Namely, it always will lose against a manually designed and placed UML diagram in terms of readability. However, for rapid development and changes in the early project phases this is a valuable help. In addition, we can utilize different placement, connector style and filter policies to reduce the downsides to a tolerable minimum.

As a part of the initial project we defined requirements which were refined with this comment.

Description	Mandatory	Implemented
Classes	✅	✅
Attributes	✅	✅
Associations	✅	✅
Cardinality	✅	✅
Inheritance	✅	✅
Data types	✅	✅
Association role names on connectors	💡	❌
Association names on connectors	💡	✅
Filter of drawn models by CLI parameter	💡	✅
Optimization of connector placement (Association/Inheritance) - less overlapping as possible	⚠️	(✅) through linetype parameter for plantuml

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💡 = Nice To Have

⚠️ = Should-have

When ever relevant, this implementation follows Interlis umleditor style as reference.