HGKeeper

// Convey

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// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or

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// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the

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package tasks

import (

"github.com/go-yaml/yaml"

)

// 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

}