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As you know a Class diagram is a diagram showing di"erent classes in a system their
attribute, operation and the relationship among di"erent objects.
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Even I have been using it for long time; I always had confusion each time when I use December 2018
it. This post is meant for such people; also it will be helpful for beginners, here I will August 2018
explain the class diagram with C++ class example.
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Class diagram for the above class is shown below.
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Di!erent visibility of the class can be represented as
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Di!erent Parameter direction
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“in”           The parameter is an input parameter.
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“Inout”    The parameter is capable of both input and output.
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Di!erent type of members in a class
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1) Static members are represented as underlined.
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2) Pure virtual functions are represented as italics.
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In a system a class may be related to di"erent classes,following are the di"erent
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Association (knows a)
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void f3(Y &y) {…; y.Foo(); }
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In Inheritance relationship a class is derived from another class. It is a “is a”
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Here Shape is an abstract class that is why it is shown in Italics. Draw () and Erase ()
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xs4rahulgoel

July 20, 2014 at 7:54 pm

Reblogged this on Technical Bytes and commented:

Nice Article on the class diagrams

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Parthasarathy

October 7, 2014 at 4:49 am

Really useful article

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Shalin

October 21, 2014 at 1:20 pm

Very useful information specially for the 2nd year assignments OOP. I
found more in the UML diagram tutorial

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Willem

December 30, 2015 at 11:34 am

Very usefull article. But I have 1 question:

When you explain the relationship “assossiation” you have written the
following code:

Class X {

X(Y *y) : y_ptr(y) {}

void SetY(Y *y) { y_ptr = y; }

void f() { y_ptr->Foo();}

—-
Y *y_ptr; // pointer
};

In the description you talk about assossiation as that an object “knows

the other”. In the code I see a stronger relationships. For example you
call Foo() in void f() which would seem more like a dependcy relationship.
I also see that you have a member Y *y_ptr which I would seem that there
is relationship aggragation.

Am I wrong here?

Greetings Willem

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Sadique Ali E

February 25, 2016 at 5:53 am

here “Y *y_ptr ” in class “X” doesn’t have any life cycle

dependency(composition) nor it implies it any
containment(aggregation); so it is an association. Association
di"ers from aggregation only in that it does not imply any
containment.

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Manuel Malagon

November 7, 2017 at 7:54 pm

So:

if “Y *y_ptr” then it is Association because X

contains a “reference” (pointer) to Y which means
that Y have to exist independent of X in order to
have a reference to it.

if “Y y” then it is Composition because X contains

an object Y whose existence depends on the
existence of X.

if “vector y” then it is Aggregation because X has a

“container”, in this case, a vector, of Y.

Is this correct?

Sadique Ali E

November 8, 2017 at 5:40 am

case 1: if X contains vector; it is a composition;

case 2:if X contains vector; and construction and
destruction of Y* happen inside X (in
constructor/destructor) it is composition
case 3:if X contains vector; and construction and
destruction of Y* not happening inside X (in
constructor/destructor) then it can be
aggregation/Aggregation based on the scenario.

Josh

May 12, 2017 at 11:37 am

Yes! Finally a decent post about UML C++ diagrams that is straight to the
point!

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Sadique Ali E

May 19, 2017 at 10:22 am

Thanks for the comments..Keep watching this blog

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Josh

May 12, 2017 at 11:38 am

Reblogged this on The Irregular Gamer and commented:

Great post about C++ UML diagram creation

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Clayton Huntsman

May 21, 2017 at 8:09 pm

Enjoyed the blog. Nice reminder in the class relationships paragraph.

Good work.

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Sadique Ali E

January 31, 2018 at 9:42 am

Thanks

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Ken

December 8, 2017 at 11:09 pm

This article is very helpful! I wish, though that objects used had more
visual examples to help visualizing the objects.
Class X {
X(Y *y) : y_ptr(y) {}

Why not …
Class Car { Car(Wheel * wheel): wheel_ptr(wheel)()

Gives visual reference to explanation.

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Tony

July 12, 2018 at 1:17 pm

Thanks for the helpful article Sadique. I appreciate it.

I think there is a mistake in the very #rst class diagram. The connection
drawn between the Vehicle class and the Wheel class is wrong. You have
the white diamond drawn at the Wheel class, when it should be drawn at
the Vehicle class. The Vehicle aggregates the Wheel, not the other way
around.

Cheers,

Tony

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Sadique Ali E

July 13, 2018 at 7:06 am

Thanks for the info; You are correct.I will update it

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Adrian

July 19, 2018 at 5:32 am

Nice article

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Adrian

July 19, 2018 at 5:35 am

This are all the possibilities of interactions between classes?

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Sadique Ali E

July 19, 2018 at 5:43 am

Yes,According to UML this are the possible cases

Sadique Ali E

July 19, 2018 at 5:42 am

Thanks

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Carlos Maceira

June 4, 2019 at 11:49 am

Very good post, it helped me a lot to understand UML relations.

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m4l490n

December 5, 2020 at 12:25 am

How would you model a map? for example, you have two classes, A and B.
Class B has a map of

class A {
};

class B {
private:
std::map classBs;
};

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sadasivam

February 6, 2021 at 9:26 am

Hi, I am new to uml modelling language. Somehow, I will grab the basics
and excel in it. I want to know which UML books can be useful in terms of
begineer. I need the guide for, cpp code generation for every concepts. I
referred lot of UML reference guide. In every guide, the #nal code
generation is sonewhat missing. So, for a begineer it is unable to grab
what will be the exact output generated. If this helps, then I can able to
learn by working with it. Can you guide me in this?

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sadash

February 7, 2021 at 5:14 am

Hi, is there any uml reference book with sample codes for every
concepts? As a begineer, its to work with it but, dont know how to
approach this.

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sadash

February 7, 2021 at 6:36 am

Is there any guide regarding every concepts in uml for cpp?

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Arkan

March 4, 2021 at 2:48 am

How about and example for “realization”?

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Arkan

March 4, 2021 at 4:05 am

You make a distinction between (directed) association and

aggregation/composition.
According to several source you should not because “Aggregation and
Composition are subsets of association meaning they are speci#c cases
of association”.
https://www.visual-paradigm.com/guide/uml-uni#ed-modeling-
language/uml-aggregation-vs-composition/

In other words: Association = { (bidirectional/directed) association,

aggregation, composition}
with association you just don’t know whether the class owns/manage the
memory of the member.
Cheers.

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Ilya

January 18, 2022 at 10:34 pm

in your Aggregation example you de#ne class Window like this:

class Window
{
public:
//…
private:
 vector itsShapes;
};

1. the type of itsShape’s should be vector

2. here, itsShapes will be destroyed when the Window object is
destroyed which doesn’t match the description you provide: “but where
the contained classes do not have a strong life cycle dependency on the
container—essentially, if the container is destroyed, its contents are not.
You may have confusion between aggregation and association”

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adityamall90

August 12, 2022 at 5:00 pm

I was almost hopeful that someone would give examples with classes not
being circle or rectangle or some geometric shape for god’s sake, but
today is not that day.

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