Relationships in namespaces (class diagram)

[radu781]

Proposal

Mermaid.js should add support for defining relationships in namespaces in order to clarify the link between multiple classes. At the moment relationships are only allowed for classes outside of namespaces.

Example

namespace NS{
    class A {
        - field
    }
    class B {
        - field
    }
    A .. B
}

Actual:

Parse error on line 227:
...        -    }    A .. B}
---------------------^
Expecting 'STRUCT_STOP', 'CLASS', got 'ALPHA'

Screenshots

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[radu781]

It looks like you can add relationships if you specify them before creating the namespace.

A .. B
namespace NS{
    class A {
        - field
    }
    class B {
        - field
    }
}

This (partially) duplicates #4519

[duaneking]

This is a defect. If I'm defining a class I should be able to include its entire definition and its use of other objects inside that definition for code clarity and accessibility for things like screen readers where the context needs to be hyper local.