Override relationships in deployment diagrams

[mathias-muench]

I am looking for a way to override relationships in deployment views to display deployment specific information like host names, port numbers and so on. Can I somehow configure deployment views to behave more like dynamic views?

[simonbrowndotje]

You can use the recently added !relationships feature to do this; for example:

workspace {

    !identifiers hierarchical

    model {
        x = softwareSystem "X" {
            a = container "A"
            b = container "B"
            
            a -> b "Makes API request to" "JSON/HTTPS"
        }
        live = deploymentEnvironment "Live" {
            server1 = deploymentNode "Server1" {
                aInstance = containerInstance x.a
            }
            server2 = deploymentNode "Server2" {
                bInstance = containerInstance x.b
            }
        }

        !relationships "live.server1.aInstance->live.server2.bInstance" {
            properties {
                port 8080
            }
        }
    }

    views {
        deployment x live "Deployment-Live-X" {
            include *
            autolayout lr
        }
    }

}

[mathias-muench]

Hi Simon! Thank you very much for the answer. I had created a workaround using a groovy script along this idea:

workspace.model.relationshipsById.findAll{ it.value.getCanonicalName() =~ /Relationship:\/\/ContainerInstance:\/\/.*\/system1.app1\[1\] -> ContainerInstance:\/\/.*\/system1.app2\[1\]/ }.each{ it.value.technology = /bar/ }

It works quite nice, so I got a bit lazy about the topic. The new feature of course would make things more explicit. In your example, you set a property. Is it also possible the set description or technology for the diagram?