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The full code and all examples in this article can be found on GitHub: BjornvdLaan/plantuml-dsl-kotlin.
In a recent project, we therefore wanted to automate the creation of certain parts of the documentation. The first automation candidate we identified were class diagrams. As part of our documentation-as-code approach, these diagrams were already manually made with PlantUML, an open-source tool allowing users to create diagrams from a plain text language. For example, with PlantUML, we can write the following text:
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