dot character in ERD

[ozum]

I can't use dot character (.) in ERD diagrams.

To Reproduce
Open live editor and put code below:

erDiagram
  public.product ||--o{ public.product_color : label

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or

erDiagram
  "public.product" ||--o{ "public.product_color" : label

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Got error:

Parse error on line 2:
erDiagram  "public.product" ||-
-----------^
Expecting 'EOF', 'SPACE', 'NEWLINE', 'ALPHANUM', 'open_directive', got 'WORD'

Expected behavior
I expected using quotes around text solve the problem.

• Browser Chrome

[zomgbre]

This appears to still be an issue. :( I'm looking to diagram MongoDB style model which can have nested entities.

[jcdang]

I think @weedySeaDragon could speak more on this but it seems like this feature has been removed

jcdang@4bedc49
jcdang@3c1bad1

@ozum has mentioned
"public.product" ||--o{ "public.product_color" : label works

I think the approach going forward is to use AS alias but it still has an issue.

erDiagram
  public_product AS "public.product" {
  }
  public_product_color AS "public.product_color" {
  }
  public_product ||--o{ public_product_color : label

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[weedySeaDragon]

I checked the code:

• entity name:

  • as others noted, you need to put double quotes (") around an entity name if you want anything other than letters (alpha: A-Za-z) or numbers (0-9) in the name
  • There is a note in the documentation that in the future, you can specify an alias for the name in square brackets ([]), but that's not currently implemented.

• entity attributes:

  • right now, only letters (A-Za-z), numbers (0-9), underscore, dash, asterisk (*), square brackets ([]), and parentheses (()) are allowed. (This is the regexp:[\*A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9\-_\[\]\(\)). No spaces or period or quotes are allowed.

@jcdang and @zomgbre - If you need something else (like spaces or other characters in the attributes), I encourage you to submit a feature request.

[jcdang]

Thanks for the response @weedySeaDragon. Do these features need to go through some roadmap acceptance process? I would like to help but I would need to know the syntax direction so I can make appropriate changes to the grammar. I've seen multiple ways of doing aliases in mermaid and I believe it would make things easier to have a consistent escape pattern to have this feature done across all diagram models.

[weedySeaDragon]

@jcdang I agree that having standardized ( and DRY) grammar parts would be helpful.
I know that work is being done to use langium and to pull out those common and standardized parts. And also that backward compatibility is important.
Issue #4401 has the overview and initial discussions. Look at the linked/referenced issues and PRs to see initial work.

There is a core goup of contributors that will review proposed implementations. You can open up an issue and describe a proposed solution and when that is reviewed, your solution can be discussed.