Extracting interface messages and generating API

[Mark Jones]

Is there an automated way of generating an API from sequence or activity diagrams.

I have a number of use cases with associated activity & sequence diagrams where for example the activity(or Sequence) diagram shows messages exchanged between two module (e.g. UI and Application layer)

What I would like to do is to generate a report/list (rtf) of the messages hence creating an API document of the interface between UI and Application layer.

[Dave_Bullet]

I don't know of an automated way.

RTF generation works at a package level and you can specify per diagram whether RTF will document all elements contained on a diagram.  you could try fiddling with that

Otherwise, are you comfortable with SQL?  I have done exactly what you are after for communication diagrams - grabbing the collaborations in order and spitting them out in a spreadsheet (along with message, conditions, constraints, source and target elements etc).

[Mark Jones]

Hi Dave,

The SQL route would seem the best way for me to achieve what i want. I just need to get and "idiots guide to sql" before  I delve into the model database.

thanks