Question: CLI available through maven repository?

[rdmueller]

The CLI is a good abstraction layer in front of the structurizr libs. But it seems that it is not available via maven.

It could be that I my thinking is wrong, but I currently think it would help to habe it avaialbe via maven.
For example, there is a structurizr gradle plugin which downloads the jar first. This could be easier to implement via a dependency.

What do you think?

[simonbrowndotje]

I have no plans to release the CLI to Maven Central ... the CLI doesn't do much, so I'd recommend that any Gradle plugins (for example) just use the Structurizr libraries directly.

[rdmueller]

thanx for the quick answer. got the feeling from the source of the CLI that for instance an export is not just a handfull of lines of code. But I will recheck

[simonbrowndotje]

Here's a basic example of parsing a DSL and exporting to C4PlantUML.

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        StructurizrDslParser parser = new StructurizrDslParser();
        parser.parse(new File("..."));
        Workspace workspace = parser.getWorkspace();
        ThemeUtils.loadThemes(workspace);
        C4PlantUMLExporter exporter = new C4PlantUMLExporter();
        Collection<Diagram> diagrams = exporter.export(workspace);
        for (Diagram diagram : diagrams) {
            System.out.println(diagram.getDefinition());
        }
    }

Dependencies:

• structurizr-dsl
• structurizr-export

[rdmueller]

oh, great. thanx a lot. Will give it a try! 🥳

[rdmueller]

it works - thanx!
will soon be part of docToolchain :-)