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#LOOP IN SEQUENCE DIAGRAM PASSWORD#
Studying hard for an exam, I didn’t do my fair share of the password recall marathon, so the diagram above is only a guess.
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In our example a special event could be ‘run out of liquor’ or ‘access granted’. When the loop has a condition or when there is a special event, which needs to be attended to in some way (other than by the actions performed inside the loop), the loop has a break. It was decided that Poor Sod & Co must obviously repeat the events of the previous night and get in the same state every evening, until the new password is recovered. Then somebody came up with the idea that “spirits giveth, spirit taketh away”. Thus three quarters of an hour passed in attempts to break the password. Exactly why the decision was made probably falls into the ‘it made sense at the time’ category.ĭuring the sobering up phase of the next morning however Poor Sod discovered he had no idea what he changed his password to…Ī council was gathered briefly and everyone fired a random guess, based on partial memories from the night before. There were long nights of studying, reinforced by spirits and coffee in equal measures… During the spirit phase of one of these a friend of mine, let’s call him Poor Sod, encouraged by other friends, managed to change the BIOS password of his computer. It was back in university during the exam period. The diagram below shows a loop with a condition. We have a loop, when one or more operations or messages are carried out several times in a row. The best way to understand sequence diagrams is to look at some examples of sequence diagrams.When I was asked to write this post, an old story about loops came to mind… A few lines of dry theory first, though.
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It's shown by an arrow going from a lifeline to an endpoint, a filled circle or an x. It can be shown by an arrow with an x at the end.Ī message sent from an unknown recipient, shown by an arrow from an endpoint to a lifeline.Ī message sent to an unknown recipient. This is a message that destroys an object. Similar to a return message, it's depicted with a dashed line and an open arrowhead that points to the rectangle representing the object created. This is a message that creates a new object. Like synchronous messages, they are drawn with an arrow connecting two lifelines however, the arrowhead is usually open and there's no return message depicted.Ī reply message is drawn with a dotted line and an open arrowhead pointing back to the original lifeline.Ī message an object sends to itself, usually shown as a U shaped arrow pointing back to itself. It's usually drawn using a line with a solid arrowhead pointing from one object to another.Īsynchronous messages don't need a reply for interaction to continue. Ī synchronous message requires a response before the interaction can continue. Place the condition for exiting the loop at the bottom left corner in square brackets. When that object's lifeline ends, you can place an X at the end of its lifeline to denote a destruction occurrence.Ī repetition or loop within a sequence diagram is depicted as a rectangle. Objects can be terminated early using an arrow labeled ">" that points to an X. Lifelines are vertical dashed lines that indicate the object's presence over time. Asynchronous messages are sent from an object that will not wait for a response from the receiver before continuing its tasks. Use half-arrowed lines to represent asynchronous messages. Messages are arrows that represent communication between objects. When an object is busy executing a process or waiting for a reply message, use a thin gray rectangle placed vertically on its lifeline. Use the UML object symbol to illustrate class roles, but don't list object attributes.Īctivation boxes represent the time an object needs to complete a task. Start Now Basic Sequence Diagram NotationsĬlass roles describe the way an object will behave in context.