From e3e264d8c295cff8646e312c3d7e4bc6a5367572 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juraj Michalek <juraj.michalek@sinusgear.com>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 18:21:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] 11 - example with custom task class definition

---
 11-task-class/build.gradle | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 README.md                  | 12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 11-task-class/build.gradle

diff --git a/11-task-class/build.gradle b/11-task-class/build.gradle
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dd99084
--- /dev/null
+++ b/11-task-class/build.gradle
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+
+// Definition of custom task class
+class DateTask extends DefaultTask {
+
+    String prefixText = "Today is:"
+
+    @TaskAction
+    void printDate() {
+        def dateTime = new Date()  
+        println "${prefixText} ${dateTime.dateString}"
+    }
+}
+
+task today(type: DateTask) {
+    description "Display date"
+}
+
+task verboseToday(type: DateTask) {
+    description "Display polite message and date"
+    prefixText "I would like to inform you that today is:"
+}
+
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b782089..49f21b7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -108,3 +108,15 @@ building decorators.
 
     gradle tasks
     gradle helloWorld
+
+## 11-task-class
+
+Gradle allows to define custom task class. This class should contain
+one method with annotation @TaskAction. This method will be executed.
+Each property defined on class level is configurable from gradle task
+(see verboseToday).
+
+    gradle tasks
+    gradle today
+    gradle verboseToday
+