Ballerina Reflect Library

The Reflect library is one of the standard library modules of the Ballerina language.

This module provides utility methods for obtaining reflective information about the Ballerina runtime. For more information on the operations supported go to The Refelct Module.

Issues and Projects

Issues and Projects tabs are disabled for this repository as this is part of the Ballerina Standard Library. To report bugs, request new features, start new discussions, view project boards, etc. please visit Ballerina Standard Library parent repository.

This repository only contains the source code for the module.

Building from the Source

Setting Up the Prerequisites

Download and install Java SE Development Kit (JDK) version 11 (from one of the following locations).
- Oracle
- OpenJDK
  
  Note: Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to the path name of the directory into which you installed JDK.
Export Github Personal access token with read package permissions as follows,
```
 export packageUser=<Username>
 export packagePAT=<Personal access token>
```

Building the Source

Execute the commands below to build from source.

To build the library:
```
 ./gradlew clean build
```
To run the integration tests:
```
 ./gradlew clean test
```
To build the module without the tests:
```
 ./gradlew clean build -x test
```
To debug the tests:
```
 ./gradlew clean build -Pdebug=<port>
```

Contributing to Ballerina

As an open source project, Ballerina welcomes contributions from the community.

For more information, go to the contribution guidelines.

Code of Conduct

All contributors are encouraged to read the Ballerina Code of Conduct.

Useful Links

Discuss about code changes of the Ballerina project in ballerina-dev@googlegroups.com.
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Post all technical questions on Stack Overflow with the #ballerina tag.