The need for overriding dependencies in a programming language is a fundamental need for many scenarios. Here we are discussing how to override dependencies in Ballerina. If you are new to Ballerina, I recommend you to play with it before reading this article. You can find everything you need in the Learn section of Language’s website.
Let’s start! Think you are working on a library that is used in a larger critical application, and you want to test a bug fix for this library inside of the larger application. Then it’s crucial to test it before publishing this library to a public package repository like Ballerina central. This is where the Local Repository comes into the picture. Also, you can use it in the following scenarios: