Ballerina plugin for Visual Studio Code

This repository is no longer used for development. Current developments are done in following repository.

https://github.com/ballerina-lang/ballerina

What is Ballerina

ballerina is a general purpose, concurrent and strongly typed programming language with both textual and graphical syntaxes.

for more info: http://ballerinalang.org/

Features

• Language Server Support
  • Completion support.
  • Hover Provider Support.
  • Signature Help Support.
  • Document Symbol Support.
  • Diagnostic Support.
• Syntax highlighting.

Installing

Find the plugin in the visual studio marketplace and follow the instructions.

Installing from .vsix

The visual studio marketplace only contains the latest build. If you want to work with an older version of Ballerina, or need to downgrade the plugin version you can install from the .vsix file.

Find .vsix files listed in Releases. Download the file for the required version.

Install by

code --install-extension Ballerina-[version].vsix

Find more info here

Configuring the Ballerina SDK path

If you plan on using ballerina libraries other than the ones in the standard ballerina distribution you should set the ballerina.sdk setting to the path to the directory of extracted ballerina distribution.

To get to the settings in vscode use Ctrl + , in Windows and Linux and ⌘ + , in macOS. More info.

Using the debugger

See the wiki page

vscode need to be restarted for a new configuration to take effect.

Running the plugin for development

1. Install maven and nodejs
2. Clone this repo
3. Run npm install and mvn clean install
4. Run vscode with code --extensionDevelopmentPath=/path/to/ballerina/plugin-vscode

Debugging language server

To connect a remote debug client to the language server process, set LSDEBUG environment variable to "true".

LSDEBUG=true code --extensionDevelopmentPath=/home/aruna/projects/ballerina/plugin-vscode

Now connect the remote debug client to port 5005.

Publishing a new release

See the wiki page

How to contribute

Pull requests are highly encouraged and we recommend you to create a GitHub issue to discuss the issue or feature that you are contributing to.

License

Ballerina Visual Studio Code plugin source is available under the Apache 2.0 License.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2017, WSO2 Inc. (http://www.wso2.org) All Rights Reserved.