Apply autolayout to workspace's JSON

[souliane]

Hello,

I have a JSON representation of a workspace and I would like to automatically fill the x and y attributes of the view's components (for example with Graphviz). Is it possible to do that with the cli or do I need to use https://github.com/structurizr/java-extensions/tree/master/structurizr-graphviz directly?

(Ideally, an option to the export command could do this)

[simonbrowndotje]

You could do something like this:

1. Create yourself a new DSL file (e.g. graphviz.dsl), that extends your JSON workspace, and applies graphviz.

workspace extends workspace.json {

    !script groovy {
        new com.structurizr.graphviz.GraphvizAutomaticLayout().apply(workspace);
    }

}

2. Use the CLI to export to a new JSON file.

./structurizr.sh export -workspace graphviz.dsl -format json

[souliane]

Awesome! Thank you.