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package org.gradle.plugins.ide.api;

import org.gradle.api.internal.PropertiesTransformer;
import org.gradle.api.tasks.Internal;
import org.gradle.plugins.ide.internal.generator.generator.PersistableConfigurationObject;
import org.gradle.plugins.ide.internal.generator.generator.PersistableConfigurationObjectGenerator;

/**
 * A convenience superclass for those tasks which generate Properties configuration files from a domain object of type T.
 *
 * @param <T> The domain object type.
 */
public abstract class PropertiesGeneratorTask<T extends PersistableConfigurationObject> extends GeneratorTask<T> {
    private final PropertiesTransformer transformer = new PropertiesTransformer();

    public PropertiesGeneratorTask() {
        generator = new PersistableConfigurationObjectGenerator<T>() {
            @Override
            public T create() {
                return PropertiesGeneratorTask.this.create();
            }

            @Override
            public void configure(T object) {
                PropertiesGeneratorTask.this.configure(object);
            }
        };
    }

    @Internal
    protected PropertiesTransformer getTransformer() {
        return transformer;
    }

    protected abstract void configure(T object);

    protected abstract T create();
}
