Overview

Behold, automatically generated diagrams and animations for your data! reftree is a Scala and Scala.js library that allows you to create data structure visualizations with very little effort.

teaser

There are a few ways you can use reftree:

Features

  • Pre-made visualizations of many standard collections: lists, queues, vectors, etc.

    lists

  • Automatic visualization of case classes (using shapeless).

    case class Employee(
      name: String,
      salary: Long
    )
    
    case class Startup(
      name: String,
      founder: Employee,
      team: List[Employee]
    )
    

    startup

  • Static diagrams as well as animations can be generated.

  • Hassle-free captions (using sourcecode).
  • Scala.js support (experimental).

Getting Started

To use this library you will need to have GraphViz installed (and have dot on your PATH). I also recommend to install the Source Code Pro fonts (regular and italic), as I find they look the best among the free options and therefore are used by default.

For viewing PNG and animated GIF on Linux I recommend eog and gifview respectively.

Interactive usage

To jump into an interactive session:

$ git clone https://github.com/stanch/reftree
$ cd reftree
$ sbt demo
@ render(List(1, 2, 3))
// display diagram.png with your favorite image viewer

Including in your project

You can depend on the library by adding these lines to your build.sbt:

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// JVM
libraryDependencies += "org.stanch" %% "reftree" % "latest-version"

// Scala.js
libraryDependencies += "org.stanch" %%% "reftree" % "latest-version"

Minimal example

import reftree.render.{Renderer, RenderingOptions}
import reftree.diagram.Diagram
import java.nio.file.Paths

val renderer = Renderer(
  renderingOptions = RenderingOptions(density = 75),
  directory = Paths.get(ImagePath, "overview")
)
import renderer._

case class Person(firstName: String, age: Int)

Diagram.sourceCodeCaption(Person("Bob", 42)).render("example")

bob

For more details, please refer to the guide.

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