sequence diagrams in #ballerina

Question

It seems that Composer is the only tool that will allow to set up structure in a ballerina program allowing you to create and edit high level logic. VScode seems to have a display function of a sequence diagram and i have not seen any sequence diagram support in IntelliJ.

What are the plans as to the support of at least the view of a diagram and/or creation of sequence diagrams as a quick way to set up code?

Answer 1

Hi I am from the ballerina tooling team.

Currently the plan is to support following features across all the IDE plugins including Composer, VSCode and Idea plugin for the July 2018 release.

• Language Support - ( Syntax highlighting and LS features. )
• Run and Debug
• Visualizing the ballerina programs with sequence diagrams.

And Ballerina Composer will ship with following additional features targeting integration development.

• Graphically design integrations.
• Design first REST API development.
• Integrated Try It Client.
• Development time HTTP Tracing Support.

Eventually, we would want to bring all the Composer features into other plugins. Hope above helps.

Edit: Please use ballerina dev list to discuss/question about features supported and future plans.