[BangPypers] UML <=> Python...and other things...

[Banibrata Dutta]

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Banibrata Dutta
<banibrata.dutta at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Vishal <vsapre80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Does anyone know of a tool that can produce Python code from UML diagrams?
>>
>
> Never used personally, but found few moments back -- 'Gaphor' (
> http://gaphor.devjavu.com/) <http://gaphor.devjavu.com/>
>
> I know that BOUML is superfast and is quite extensible with possibility of
> writing it's plugins using a well documented API (mixed C/Python plugin
> possible). I've used BOUML (but for C++ projects), and it is one of _the_
> fastest babes around.
>
>
>> Is something of this sort being added to NetBeans?
>>
>
> Impossible is nothing ;-)
>
> Or is it that the ease of programming in Python acts as a deterrent in the
>> way of having to create something in UML and then covert that model into
>> Python.
>>
>
> Forward engineering should not be a challenge, but any programming language
> that has too many ways of representing the same idea, and where the OO
> paradigm can be functionally represented in multiple (too many) form,
> reverse-engineering (not round-trip, simple reverse) presents some
> challenges (not unsurmountable though). Once the forward and reverse engg
> parts are individually nailed, the full round-trip thing becomes possible,
> though some tools _by design_ choose to work in completely context-free
> manner, and make round-trip jobs difficult. My knowledge of Python isn't
> good enough to say whether Python is such a language, however given that
> Gaphor exists, this (forward engg) is a solved problem.
>
>>
>> it would be good to have a tool of that sort (Python to UML and UML to
>> Python)?
>>
>> Also, is there a way to find Python call graphs (something like Doxygen),
>> but not just the typical static code structure...instead something that can
>> tell execution paths while a certain function is called.
>> I came across 'pycallgraph'. Its good. except two things, its slow for big
>> projects, and it goes all the way into tracing every single call...that
>> means if I am using a COM library underneath, it traces that as well. What I
>> was interested in is figuring out only part of the trace...may be specifying
>> exclusions in the trace tree.
>>
>
> I am guessing that it does dynamic (run-time) analysis, and unlike static
> analysis tools, the depth control can only be "simulated", i.e. in reality
> full depth traversal happens, hence you find it slow.
>

Looking around, found some more --

(Commercial) http://www.objectdomain.com/
(FOSS) http://sourceforge.net/projects/eclipse-pyuml

maybe there are others too. And 1 correction about Gaphor, it seems to be
able to do reverse engg.

-- 
regards,
Banibrata
http://www.linkedin.com/in/bdutta
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