any UML tools for Scala

Question

Is there any UML tools available for Scala. the reason for my question is that its a blend of functional and OO concepts hence I would like to know how such tools denote functions in UML diagrams.

Answer 1

This thread summarizes the obstacles faced by any UML tool wanting to represent Scala classes:

• there is no official representation of mixins in UML
• it is difficult to represent:
  • closures
  • Scala type members
  • class constructor parameter bounds (a.k.a. "template type" bounds/constraints)
  • covariant and contravariant class constructor inheritance
  • the relationship between a class or trait and the companion object

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This thesis ("Evaluierung des Einsatzes von Scala bei der Entwicklung für die Android-Plattform", pdf, German) does add stereotypes for trait mixins and other scala specific elements (pp. 146).

What was added by Meiko Rachimow in 2009:

attributes, getter and setter

For all published attributes exist implicit getter (attribute1 and attribute2), except the visibility was declared as private (attribute3). If published attributes are tagged with a stereotype Var, they are variables, for which there exist implicit setter (attribute2). The stereotype lazy marks instance variables as lazy (attribute4).

classes and generics

Like in UML, generic classes are marked with an abstract type. By using the Scala language syntax, upper and lower bounds can be declared for this type (EineKlasse). It is possible to use structured types as bounds, which attributes and methods are embraced by curly braces (EineKlasse2). Generic type parameters of methods are embraced by square brackets (operation).

traits

Traits are displayed like abstract classes and tagged with the stereotype trait. Abstract attributes and methods are displayed in italics (attribute2, operation2). For abstract attributes the dependency arrow can be tagged with the stereotype requires (Trait3, attribute3). On the other hand, the stereotype self is used for self referencing types (Trait4). If a trait inherits another trait, the inheritance is displayed with an inheritance arrow (Trait2). This arrow type is used too, if a class extends a trait (Klasse). To emphasis the “mix in” of traits, the inheritance arrow can be tagged with the stereotype mixin (Klasse).

singleton objects

Singleton objects are displayed like classes and tagged with the stereotype singleton. It is possible, that there exist two class elements with the same name. In fact it is a singleton object with the belonging companion class. In this case the dependency arrow is tagged with the stereotype hasA.