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2021-12-20, Gary Kramlich
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Overhaul the readme
// 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
}