Hello, After recently discovering the http://yuml.me site I wanted to be able easily to include some UML in my APT documents, and started on a Doxia macro for this. I intend to open source it once I get some actual functionality up and running.
I picture the macro as something like this: it should accept yuml.me's textual UML syntax (or maybe some parametrization), forward it to yuml.me and retrieve the generated picture, store the picture with the generated documentation, and call figure() etc on the Sink to insert the picture into the resulting document. The problem which I quickly encountered is where exactly do I store the pictures which I get from yuml.me? I believe the usual case for Doxia macros is to reference resources which are known beforehand, but in this case I essentially want my macro to output a file which should be included in the resulting document. I can get the basedir from the provided MacroRequest, but this gives me the root of the current Maven project, and I was hoping to avoid hardcoding e.g. "target/site/images/uml". I could of course output a yuml.me URL to Sink.figureGraphics() but that would potentially generate a lot of unnecessary traffic to the yuml.me, and the generated site will depend on yuml.me being online. So is this a viable approach at all? Thanks for any pointers! - Rune
