feat(erd): add an entity-relationship diagram type (#115) - #399
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The candidate families, the endpoint-side contract, and the obstacle-clearing tests lived inside the architecture renderer, so a second type that needs the same routing could only copy them. Move them into renderers/shared/orthogonal-router.mjs and let createOrthogonalRouter own port spreading, side selection, and the route cache. The extraction adds two opt-in hooks that are unused by the existing callers: preferredCandidates runs before the shared families (a type can own the channel choice for relationships that would otherwise share one corridor) and extraCandidates runs after them, before the best-effort fallback. strictClearance lets a type that can route around obstacles take the direct line only when that line is genuinely clear; the default keeps the historical behaviour where the Clean Flow gate names the obstacle. No behaviour change for existing types: architecture's web-app example renders byte-identical to the checked-in golden.
Adds the sixth typed diagram: entities with their key attributes and the cardinality between them. The existing five types cannot state a data shape — an architecture diagram can name a database node but not a key, a foreign-key target, or whether an end is one or many. Design decisions worth naming, because they differ from the sketch in tt-a1i#115: - Cardinality is typed, not display notation. fromCardinality/toCardinality are one|many and fromOptional/toOptional are booleans, so a gate can check them and the renderer chooses the crow's-foot marker from facts. A "0..N" string would be unvalidatable. - No authored `kind`. "junction" and "external" are derivable from the key facts, so an authored enum could contradict them. The reading is carried by key markers and cardinality instead. - No attribute-count cap. The real constraint is box height against the corridor budget and single-line fit against the box width, so rows are fitted and a row that cannot fit is a diagnostic; the full table belongs in cards. - No orphan-entity error and no evidence mode in this slice. Reference tables with no inbound foreign key are normal, and repository evidence currently applies to architecture only, so generalising that contract belongs in its own change rather than riding inside a new type. - Every declared field is consumed by the renderer or a gate. Routing reuses the shared orthogonal router rather than a per-type copy, so the type inherits port spreading, the endpoint-side contract, the route-rhythm floors, and the universal Clean Flow gate. Two additions are specific to opaque entity boxes: relationships that would share one corridor get a deterministic lane offset, and an entity sitting between two aligned anchors is routed around with a U-shaped detour instead of being drawn through. The example is an order-management schema: three columns of related tables, an optional non-identifying payment link, and the columns kept out of the boxes in cards. It ships as a gallery-quality artifact with three guided reader views.
Adds the twelfth scenario recipe so "map this schema" reaches the new type instead of the closest architecture approximation, and carries it through every surface a recipe touches: the type label map, the gallery case with its artifact and source copies, the gallery filter row, and the recipe counts the site copy states. The recipe ships a verified proof (`orders`), so the gallery card opens the checked-in artifact and plays its named chapter.
Built with Node 22, the canonical major for byte-stable ZIP output, and smoke tested from the extracted package. Without this the distributed Skill answers `doctor` with a missing erd renderer, schema, and example.
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 10 included reviews per hour; 8 remain after this review. 📝 SummaryReviewed base WalkthroughThe change adds ERD support across Archify. It defines an ERD schema, grid placement, relationship routing, SVG rendering, diagnostics, localized labels, CLI support, examples, recipes, tests, and gallery content. Architecture routing now uses a shared orthogonal-router module. New ERD examples and gallery artifacts describe an order-management schema. Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ERD is available but its primary authoring and schema-reference documentation remains incomplete, which can lead users to miss supported authoring paths and valid legend configuration. Resolve these documentation gaps before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 1 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 inconclusive)
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The gallery filter strip is asserted by text in both languages, and the recipe-count copy is part of those strings. Adding the erd filter changes both the count and the label list, so the localized expectations move with it. This test only executes where Chrome is available (the webm-artifact job), which is why the Node matrix stayed green while that job failed.
The real-Chrome pass asserts the filter labels twice more with the count normalized out of the first entry, so both remaining lists carry the new filter. Verified with the gate CI uses: ARCHIFY_SITE_INTEGRATION=1 ARCHIFY_CHROME=... node --test test/site-language-continuity.test.mjs # 7 pass / 0 fail (previously 6 pass / 1 fail)
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19-19: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winAdd
erdto the fast authoring type list.The canonical authoring path still lists only five diagram types. A user who follows this path cannot select
erdbefore reading its schema and example.Add
erdto Step 1. The author can make this local documentation correction.As per path instructions, the Skill guidance must expose ERD through the shared authoring path.
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85-85: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winAdd the ERD legend keys to the supported-key table.
The ERD schema accepts
pk,fk,uk,one,many, andoptional. The strict legend contract requires authors to know these valid keys.Add an ERD row to this table.
As per path instructions, document the authoritative ERD schema before generated surfaces.
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In `@archify/renderers/erd/grid.mjs`:
- Around line 45-54: Bound authored row and col indices before the loops in
bandedLayout, using a schema or validation maximum consistent with the supported
grid size. Ensure oversized placements are rejected and layout is skipped before
iterating through maxCol or maxRow, while preserving normal layout for valid
indices.
In `@archify/renderers/erd/README.md`:
- Line 3: Update the ERD authoring and renderer invocation examples in the guide
to use the established erd identifier consistently: change diagram_type values,
renderer paths, and filenames or directories from er to erd. Preserve the
standard Archify HTML template and ERD schema contract.
In `@archify/renderers/erd/render-erd.mjs`:
- Around line 392-396: Update the attribute overflow calculation around
entityWidth(entity) so available space uses the resolved entity width when
entity.width is omitted, while preserving the existing explicit-width behavior
and diagnostic.
In `@archify/schemas/README.md`:
- Line 15: Update the ERD schema documentation entry to list relationships among
the optional structural arrays, while keeping entities documented as required
and preserving the schema-v1 contract.
In `@archify/SKILL.md`:
- Line 55: Update the relationship guidance in the ERD documentation to state
that fromOptional and toOptional independently change an endpoint’s minimum
cardinality from one to zero, while the cardinality setting continues to
determine the maximum: optional one is zero-or-one and optional many is
zero-or-many. Preserve the existing identifying and routing guidance.
In `@archify/test/erd-rendering.test.mjs`:
- Line 141: Update the ERD rendering fixture around the wall entity so it no
longer overlaps the right entity, allowing relationship routing to execute. In
the associated assertion, remove acceptance of the unrelated overlap diagnostic
and assert only the stable clean-flow/edge-through-node routing diagnostic.
In `@docs/gallery/sources/orders.erd.json`:
- Around line 256-258: Update the gallery card’s column-claims text to remove
product.price and customer.created_at, since both are already shown in their
entity boxes; retain only claims for columns omitted from the entities,
including order.total_amount, payment.paid_at, and the quantity fields.
In `@docs/guide.html`:
- Line 249: Update the color mapping in guide-template.html to define a color
for the erd type, then regenerate guide.html so its corresponding mapping
includes erd and ERD cards receive a defined --type-color.
In `@scripts/build-gallery.mjs`:
- Line 163: Update descriptionZh in the gallery source to replace “标识性” with
“非标识性” so it matches the non-identifying relationship semantics and
descriptionEn; then regenerate docs/gallery.html from the updated source.
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In `@archify/schemas/README.md`:
- Line 85: Update the supported-key table in the schemas README to add an ERD
row listing the valid legend keys: pk, fk, uk, one, many, and optional. Place
the authoritative ERD schema documentation before any generated surfaces.
In `@archify/SKILL.md`:
- Line 19: Update Step 1 of the fast authoring type list to include erd
alongside the existing architecture, workflow, sequence, dataflow, and lifecycle
options, preserving the surrounding guidance.
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Review findings, each verified before fixing: - Bound authored `row`/`col` at the schema (0..12, the composition budget the other types assume). The banded layout iterates from zero to the largest authored index before validation runs, so an oversized index used to loop before any diagnostic; it now fails schema validation immediately. - The attribute-overflow check in validateEr read the optional `entity.width` directly from the authored object, so an omitted width turned the available space into NaN and silently skipped the diagnostic. It now uses the resolved width; a regression covers the default-width overflow case. - The fail-closed routing test overlapped its fixture boxes, so it exercised the overlap validator instead of the routing gate. Automatic routing detours around a blocker (covered by the detour test), so the deterministic way to reach the gate is an authored `via` through an unrelated entity; the fixture no longer overlaps and asserts only `clean-flow/edge-through-node`. - SKILL.md now lists `erd` in the fast authoring path and states optionality precisely: the cardinality sets an end's maximum, the optional flag only lowers its minimum from one to zero (optional one reads zero-or-one). - schemas/README records that ERD `relationships` is optional and adds the ERD row to the legend-keys table. - The erd renderer README used the pre-rename `er` identifiers. - The gallery card claimed `product.price` and `customer.created_at` were kept out of the boxes while both are drawn; the card now lists only what is actually omitted, and the Chinese gallery copy says 非标识性 (non-identifying). - The guide page color map omitted `erd`, leaving ERD recipe cards with an undefined type color. Regenerated: validators, both example copies, gallery, guide, and the canonical zip (Node 22). npm test 1304 pass / 0 fail; Chrome-gated suites (site-language-continuity, desktop-reader, webm smoke) all pass.
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Dense schemas read better when the relationships sharing one entity side travel as a single trunk with a short branch per relationship instead of a sheaf of parallel lanes. Fan-in and fan-out groups (same resolved side, same marker style, fully automatic routing) now prefer a trunk route just outside the shared side; branches keep their own ports and cardinality markers, logical routes stay whole for every gate and the layout report, and anything authored (route/via/labelAt) or unable to clear the trunk falls back to the ordinary families unbundled. Also lands the table-catalogue authoring round: SKILL.md and the authoring contract describe the dense full-schema ERD path (standard-profile first, complete physical columns, SQL_TYPE|中文备注 comments, contiguous domain tag blocks, --quality <selected-quality> templates), attribute rows render at the default read depth (data-detail="context") so fields are visible without interaction, and the stale "4 artifact checks" receipt copy pinned by the ordinary-model-floor test is replaced by the current 9-check wording. Regenerated: both example goldens, gallery artifact pages and manifest, and the canonical zip (Node 22). npm test 1306 pass / 0 fail; Chrome-gated suites (site-language-continuity, desktop-reader, site-language-integration, webm smoke) all pass.
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In `@archify/renderers/erd/render-erd.mjs`:
- Around line 495-499: Update the trunk-cluster key construction in the loop
over runs so it includes markerStyleOf(relationship) alongside axis and
coordinate, preventing differently styled groups from merging; preserve the
existing cluster lookup and run insertion behavior.
In `@archify/test/erd-rendering.test.mjs`:
- Line 212: Update the test around relationshipRoutes(html) to explicitly assert
that exactly two relationship routes are returned before iterating. Keep the
existing per-route assertions unchanged so missing branches cannot allow the
loop to pass vacuously.
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CodeRabbit round on the bundling commit: the trunk coordinate snap and the rendered cluster key both ignored the marker style, so a dashed group snapping next to a solid group could have its bus rendered in the solid group's dash language. Snapping now only joins same-style lines, differently styled groups take the next offset a lane apart, and the cluster key carries the style as defense in depth. The bundling test also asserts the branch count up front so a missing route cannot let the loop pass vacuously.
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mainhas no type for the shape of the data itself. Adatabase-typed architecture node names a store, but not a key, a foreign-key target, or whether an end is one or many, so "map this service's data model" can only be approximated.This implements #115:
erdbecomes a sixth typed diagram — entities, key attributes, and both-end cardinality — authored as JSON, validated fail-closed, delivered as a self-contained HTML artifact that reuses the existing viewer with no new viewer concepts (it rides thedata-node-id/data-edge-*hooks and adata-node-kindthe viewer already knows).It is a second implementation of the same issue as #183, with different decisions, so a maintainer can take either. Differences, and the reasoning:
cardinality: { from, to }free stringsfromCardinality/toCardinality(one/many) +fromOptional/toOptionalkindenum, 5 valuesrole: primary/foreign/attributekey: pk/fk/ukstandaloneescapesources+repositoryin-sliceThe cardinality point is the substantive one:
"0..N"is display notation, so no gate can check it and the crow's-foot marker can only be parsed from arbitrary text.one|manyplus an optionality boolean is checkable, and the marker follows from the fact rather than from string parsing. Thekindvocabulary is the second:junctionandexternalare derivable from the key facts (two foreign keys forming the identity; no inbound foreign key), so an authored enum can contradict the keys the same document declares.Stability impact
renderers/shared/orthogonal-router.mjsis new;renderers/architecturenow imports it instead of owning the candidate families,strictClearance/preferredCandidates/extraCandidatesare opt-in and unused by architecture, andrenderDefinitions(extra = '')appends type-owned definitions inside the same<defs>.web-appexample renders byte-identical to the checked-in golden, andcheck:viewer,check:brand-marks,check:validators,check:release-identityand the golden suite pass.guidegains a twelfth recipe and routes data-model questions toerd; the gallery gains a twelfth case; the packaged Skill gains a type.layout/constraintcarryingsubject,evidence,supportedFixes), anddeliverpreserves the previous artifact. A relationship that cannot clear an unrelated entity fails withclean-flow/edge-through-noderather than being drawn through a box.docs/assets/archify-live-proof.{gif,json}were deliberately left untouched — regenerating them on unmodifiedmainalready produces a diff, so that staleness belongs to its own change.Tests run
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upstream/mainat6db72a9. Candidate: this branch.New regression coverage in
archify/test/erd-rendering.test.mjs(7 tests). Besides the artifact receipt, it asserts the geometry contract this type adds: every route is checked against unrelated entity rectangles, an entity placed between two aligned anchors is routed around instead of crossed, and an unroutable relationship fails with a diagnostic while writing no artifact. The schema negatives (unknown entity, unknown attribute reference, duplicate attribute name, under-wide entity) and the cardinality/optional/dashed variants are covered too.The 48 skipped tests are the platform- and browser-gated ones; the browser test above was run explicitly rather than left skipped.
Visual evidence
docs/gallery/artifacts/orders.erd.html(linked from the gallery card), and thevisual-checksidecar set (4 viewports × 2 themes) reproducible with the command above. Drawings inspected: crow's-foot markers at both ends, the dashed non-identifying payment link, key glyphs, and the legend.--quality showcase, light and dark, static preset, no motion.visual-checkpass with 0 diagnostics at 1440×900 / 1600×1000 / 1920×1080 / 2048×1320;desktop-reader-browser.test.mjs2/2 with real Chrome.Generated artifacts
archify.ziprebuilt with Node 22 and smoke tested from the extracted package (doctornow reports the erd renderer, schema, and example).archify/renderers/shared/generated-validators.mjsregenerated; two consecutive runs are byte-identical.archify/examples/erd-orders-rendered.htmlandexamples/erd-orders-rendered.htmlre-rendered from the example source.docs/gallery.html,docs/gallery/manifest.json,docs/gallery/artifacts/orders.erd.html,docs/gallery/sources/orders.erd.json, anddocs/guide.htmlregenerated from the shared recipe source.On #183: if you prefer its vocabulary I can rework this schema to match, and if it lands first the router extraction in commit 1 stands on its own. What I would argue to keep either way is the typed cardinality and the obstacle-aware routing — the second one matters because entity boxes are opaque, so a third table between two aligned tables is a normal shape, and without a detour it can only be authored around by hand-placing
via/labelDx/labelDy.