Version 4.2.0

New Features and Improvements

Web Modeling Editor:

• Introduced association popup component for enhanced object linking functionality, enabling users to connect objects to related classes in both standard and icon object diagrams.

• Added an icon attribute to class metadata, allowing classes to store an icon that is displayed for instantiated objects in object diagrams.

• Improved UI consistency and maintainability with reformatted HTML elements, better input attributes, button layouts, and section structure.

• Enhanced palette and preview support for the new diagram types in the create pane interface.

BESSER Low-code Platform:

• Added new FastAPI endpoint ‘/besser_api/get-json-model-from-image’ that accepts an image and OpenAI API key to convert UML images to JSON models using the image_to_buml functionality.

• Enhanced Smart Data Models JSON schema generator with improvements for better compatibility and validation rules.

• Extended metadata handling in code builder, BUML-to-JSON converter, and JSON-to-BUML processor to include icon field support.

• Updated image_to_buml prompt to clarify handling of association labels for better PlantUML compatibility.