Read model review comments into a table

Live script to extract Simulink review comments (review manager) from the <ModelName>_comments.mldatx.

Extract review comments from a model

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Remark: This live script uses undocumented features, by directly accessing the data structure stored in the mathworks files. This is a proof-of-concept and for teaching purpose.

Algorithm

Matlab stores the review comments of a model in an own file, named "ModelName>_comments.mldatx".

This filetype (mldatx) is (similar to .slx) a .zip file, that contains a folder structure with several files containing the data.

For the review comments, they are stored in a file with the path "fsroot/data/commentsData.dat", which again is a JSON structure.

So to extract the Review comments we will do the following:

• Ask the user for the model name
• Unzip the review comments file
• Read commentsData.dat into a JSON struct
• Sort replies behind corresponding comments by 'CommentID' and 'Key'
• Convert JSON struct into a time table