Automated Logging and Sequence Diagram Generation

[Universaldilletant]

Hi DQMH Enthusiasts,

What we always do by adapting the std DQMH template is adding a logging functionality into the dequeue VI of the MHL of each module (our logger of choice is a LV wrapper around Log4Net, but it doesn't matter). In my recent project, I added this logging functionality also into every request and broadcast. That means I get a XML document that contains all messages that are sent and received. Then I wrote a parser that creates a plantuml sequence diagram out of the xml, because the sent messages had the same title as the received ones.

All I had to do to get a full blown sequence diagram of my application was to run a standard operation once and let the parser do its magic.

So my feature requests would be:

- add automated logging to each notification sent and received

- Create an add-on that takes a logging file and creates a Plantuml text from it

I am happy to help/demonstrate/explain what I did and what would be ideal. I know you guys think about logging, so this might be just a small step ahead.

Cheers, Niko

[ChrisFarmerWIS]

This is very similar to this idea: Add a sequence diagram logger - NI Community

Also, this idea is under development, and here is a sneak peak: https://youtu.be/2kj7YI-a_xg?t=2694 

[Olivier-JOURDAN]

@ChrisFarmerWIS I love the video you point out 😛

@Universaldilletant Stay tuned, if thing are going well we will have something to show early next year 🤞

[Universaldilletant]

Thanks a lot for the answers, that sounds really cool!

If you need my help/Input/beat testing, just give me a ping 🙂

[joerg.hampel]

Work in progress... stay tuned!

[Olivier-JOURDAN]

I'm declining this request because it's not directly related to the framework, but we implemented this request through LUMOS --> https://dqmh.org/product/lumos/