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Ballerina OS Library

This library provides APIs to retrieve information about the environment variables and the current users of the Operating System.

The APIs are platform-independent, i.e., uniform across all operating systems.

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 package.

Build from the source

Set up the prerequisites

Download and install Java SE Development Kit (JDK) version 21 (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>

Build the source

Execute the commands below to build from source.

To build the package:
```
./gradlew clean build
```
To run the tests:
```
./gradlew clean test
```

To run a group of tests

./gradlew clean test -Pgroups=<test_group_names>

To build the without the tests:
```
./gradlew clean build -x test
```
To debug package implementation:
```
./gradlew clean build -Pdebug=<port>
```

To debug with Ballerina language:

./gradlew clean build -PbalJavaDebug=<port>

Publish the generated artifacts to the local Ballerina central repository:
```
./gradlew clean build -PpublishToLocalCentral=true
```
Publish the generated artifacts to the Ballerina central repository:
```
./gradlew clean build -PpublishToCentral=true
```

Contribute 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

Chat live with us via our Discord server.
Post all technical questions on Stack Overflow with the #ballerina tag.
For more information go to the os library.
For example demonstrations of the usage, go to Ballerina By Examples.