riyafa/hello

Ballerina Hello Extension

Annotation based build extension implementation for ballerina.

Features:

• Generate text file with the greetings

Supported Annotations:

@hello:Greeting{}

Annotation Name	Description	Default value
salutation	Greeting or Acknowledgement	Hello!

How to run

1. Download and install JDK 8 or later
2. Get a clone or download the source from this repository (https://github.com/ballerinax/hello)
3. Run the Maven command mvn clean install from within the hello directory.
4. Copy target/hello-extension-0.970.0.jar file to <BALLERINA_HOME>/bre/lib directory.
5. Run ballerina build <bal filename> to generate artifacts.

The hello world artifacts will be created in a folder called target with following structure.

target/
├── outputfilename.txt
└── outputfilename.balx

Annotation Usage Sample:

import ballerina/http;
import ballerinax/hello;

@hello:Greeting{salutation : "Guten Tag!"}
@http:ServiceConfig {
    basePath:"/helloWorld"
}
service<http:Service> helloWorld bind {port:9091}{
    sayHello (endpoint outboundEP, http:Request request) {
        http:Response response = new;
        response.setStringPayload("Hello, World from service helloWorld ! \n");
        _ = outboundEP -> respond(response);
    }
}