Cannot mark members as protected in classDiagram

Attempting to mark a member as protected in a class diagram by using the octothorpe (hash) character causes the graph to not render. I’m attempting this based on the classDiagram documentation.

Specifically, the following code:

classDiagram
class MyClass
MyClass : #mytest

Causes the following error:

Parse error on line 3:
...s MyClassMyClass : #mytest
----------------------^
Expecting 'NEWLINE', 'EOF', got 'PUNCTUATION'

The private, public and package qualifiers all seem to work appropriately.

This reproduces using the Mermaid Live Editor

I’m using Windows 10 with Chrome 78.0.3904.87

I can work around this cosmetically by using #35; but it took me a while to figure that out. It’s unclear to me whether I lose any functionality by doing so. (I believe not.)

[jgreywolf]

I dont think you are inept. I would be surprised if this works, since it still starts with “#” which is defined as PUNCTUATION in the code 😃

I am going to continue looking into this, in my attempts to get a better understanding of the mermaid code. Maybe I can even contribute 😉

[jgreywolf]

Interestingly, if you define the class with members inside of {}, this error does not happen. So it only appears to be when you are adding members individually

class BankAccount{
  +String onwer
  +BigDecimal balance
  #deposit(amount)
  +withdrawl(amount)
}

(Live Editor)