Allow not providing values to selected configurable variables through CLI

[ravinperera00]

Purpose

A bug in the CLI does not allow users to leave out values (by not providing values) for configurable variables that have an unsupported type and causes an error. This PR fixes that issue.
Additionally, the CLI does not support accepting values for configurable variables with a union type that has null as a member type (ex: int?). This PR adds that support.

Fixes #42859

Approach

Bug fix

When considering unsupported configurable values in the CLI, there could be two cases:

Case 1
A type that is not supported through the CLI is used as a configurable variable but the value is not provided through the CLI. This should not be a problem and the CLI should allow leaving the value for that out as long as a default values is provided through other methods.

Case 2
A type that is not supported through the CLI is used as a configurable variable but the value for that is provided through the CLI. This should cause and error stopping the program.

Checking whether the variable value is null before executing the checks regarding the type can produce the expected outcome.

Improvement

The Ballerina spec mentions the following regarding the supported types for configurable values.

Configurable values can be supplied with the built-in command-line option -C,

-Ckey=value

Key syntax:
key:= [[org .] module .] variable

Define S as:
type S boolean | int | float | decimal | string | xml

In the first phase, only the configurable variables with type S? are supported. We can support anydata[], map<anydata> and table<map<anydata>> later as needed.

Therefore types such as int? should be supported through the CLI. This can be achieved by accepting the () type as a valid member type within union types.

Check List

• Read the Contributing Guide
• Updated Change Log
• Checked Tooling Support (#)
• Added necessary tests
  • Unit Tests
  • Spec Conformance Tests
  • Integration Tests
  • Ballerina By Example Tests
• Increased Test Coverage
• Added necessary documentation
  • API documentation
  • Module documentation in Module.md files
  • Ballerina By Examples

[HindujaB]

Let's shorten the PR title as well. We can elaborate on it inside the description and approach.

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[warunalakshitha]

LGTM

[HindujaB]

LGTM