Bigtop::Backend::Diagram::GraphvizSql - generates dot language file for data model
If your bigtop file looks like this:
config { SQL ... {} Diagram Graphviz {} } app App::Name { }
and there are table blocks in the app block, this module will make docs/schema.graphviz (relative to the build_dir) when you type:
bigtop app.bigtop Diagram
or
bigtop app.bigtop all
This generates docs/schema.graphviz. By default this backend also runs the following command:
docs/schema.graphviz
dot -Tpdf docs/schema.graphviz > docs/schema.pdf
Use backend_block_keywords described below to control the behavior.
This is a Bigtop backend which generates a file in the dot language understood by all the Graphviz tools. For information about Graphviz, please visit http://www.graphviz.org. To summarize, the files generated by this module can be fed through dot or neato to produce a .png file (many other formats are available) showing the data model for your project.
This module assumes you are using one of the SQL backends which will define appropriate keywords for table and field definitions. But, it defines three words of its own:
This is valid keyword for both the app and table levels. The app label becomes the label for the whole picture. The table label becomes the label for the record box of the table. If these label keywords are not used the app name and table name are used instead, but split on underscores and ucfirst applied to all the words which are rejoined with a single space.
This is valid at the field level and indicates that the field's value refers to a field in another table whenever the value is not null. In the picture these links are drawn with dotted lines.
To keep podcoverage tests happy.
Tells tentmaker that I understand these config section backend block keywords:
no_gen template skip_layout layout_program layout_flags
As mentioned in the SYNOPSIS above, by default this backend runs the following command:
If skip_layout is present and true, no such command is run. All you get is docs/schema.graphviz. This flag supercedes the other keywords.
layout_program defaults to dot, but this keyword lets you change to any other interpretter of the dot language. One of these is neato. There are others. In my humble opinion, only dot looks good for this type of diagram, so I stick with it.
dot
layout_flags lets you pass things to your layout program. Feel free to pass anything. If you use -T, the generated file will have the -T value as its file extension. So this:
layout_flags `-Tpng`
will actually execute this:
dot -Tpng docs/schema.graphviz > docs/schema.png
If you omit -T a -Tpdf will be added for you. No other flags are parsed.
Tells tentmaker what this module makes. Summary: docs/schema.graphviz.
Called by Bigtop::Parser to get me to do my thing.
Called by Bigtop::Parser so the user can substitute an alternate template for the hard coded one here.
Phil Crow <crow.phil@gmail.com>
Copyright (C) 2010 by Phil Crow
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
To install Bigtop, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Bigtop
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Bigtop
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.