grim/convey

Merge the redux branch into default.

2021-12-20, Gary Kramlich
6b1dbda836d9
Merge the redux branch into default.

This officials abandons the 0.14.0 release and moves right on to 0.15.0 which
includes replacing docker with podman and simplifying many things.
// Convey
// Copyright 2016-2018 Gary Kramlich <grim@reaperworld.com>
//
// This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
// (at your option) any later version.
//
// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
// GNU General Public License for more details.
//
// You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
// along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
package tasks
import (
"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
)
// CloneTask creates a task of the given type from the given payload. It
// does this by creating a fresh instance of a task of the target type,
// then marshalling/unmarshalling the payload to that type.
func Clone(task interface{}, taskType Task) (Task, error) {
rawTask, err := yaml.Marshal(task)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
realTask := taskType.New()
if err = yaml.Unmarshal(rawTask, realTask); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return realTask, nil
}