# Task.php

## \Task
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Package: phing

The base class for all Tasks.

Use {@link Project#createTask} to register a new Task.

Parent(s)
  \ProjectComponent
Children
  \CreoleTask
  \GitBaseTask
  \PhpDocumentorTask
  \HttpRequestTask
  \Service_Amazon
  \SshTask
  \PatchTask
  \JslLintTask
  \PackageAsPathTask
  \ZendCodeAnalyzerTask
  \PhkPackageTask
  \PHPMDTask
  \PhpDependTask
  \CapsuleTask
  \FileSizeTask
  \CoverageReportTask
  \CoverageSetupTask
  \CoverageThresholdTask
  \CoverageMergerTask
  \ZendGuardLicenseTask
  \PhpCodeSnifferTask
  \XmlLintTask
  \JsMinTask
  \PHPCPDTask
  \ScpTask
  \PhpLintTask
  \SimpleTestTask
  \DbDeployTask
  \PDOTask
  \DocBloxTask
  \rSTTask
  \SmartyTask
  \FtpDeployTask
  \ReplaceRegexpTask
  \ManifestTask
  \SymlinkTask
  \MailTask
  \IoncubeLicenseTask
  \IoncubeEncoderTask
  \ExportPropertiesTask
  \SvnBaseTask
  \PHPUnitTask
  \PHPUnitReportTask
  \VersionTask
  \FileHashTask
  \HttpGetTask
  \TouchTask
  \AvailableTask
  \ExitTask
  \CVSPassTask
  \IncludePathTask
  \LoadFileTask
  \MkdirTask
  \TypedefTask
  \ExecTask
  \CvsTask
  \SequentialTask
  \AppendTask
  \ReflexiveTask
  \MatchingTask
  \TstampTask
  \PropertyTask
  \ResolvePathTask
  \InputTask
  \DeleteTask
  \ChmodTask
  \AdhocTask
  \PhingTask
  \ForeachTask
  \TaskdefTask
  \PropertyPromptTask
  \CopyTask
  \UpToDateTask
  \PhpEvalTask
  \ImportTask
  \EchoTask
  \PhingCallTask
  \ChownTask
  \TaskAdapter
  \UnknownElement
See
  \Project#createTask()
Author
  Andreas Aderhold
Copyright
  2001,2002 THYRELL. All rights reserved
Version
  $Revision: 912 $

### Properties

`string $description= ''`

description of the task
Details

Type
  string

`\Location $location= ''`

stored buildfile location
Details

Type
  \Location

`\Project $project= 'null'`
inherited

Holds a reference to the project that a project component (a task, a target, etc.) belongs to

A reference to the current project instanceInherited from: \ProjectComponent::$$project
Default value `null` Details

Type
  \Project
Inherited_from
  \ProjectComponent::$$project

`\Target $target= ''`

owning Target object
Details

Type
  \Target

`string $taskName= ''`

Taskname for logger
Details

Type
  string

`string $taskType= ''`

internal taskname (req)
Details

Type
  string

`\RuntimeConfigurable $wrapper= ''`

wrapper of the task
Details

Type
  \RuntimeConfigurable

### Methods

`getDescription( ) : string`

Returns the textual description of the task

Returns

Type | Description
--- | ---
string | The text description of the task

`getLocation( ) : \Location`

Returns the location within the buildfile this task occurs. Used by {@link BuildException} to give detailed error messages.

Returns

Type | Description
--- | ---
\Location | The location object describing the position of this task within the buildfile.

`getOwningTarget( ) : \Target`

Returns the owning target of this task.

Returns

Type | Description
--- | ---
\Target | The target object that owns this task

`getProject( ) : \Project`
inherited

Returns a reference to current project

Inherited from: \ProjectComponent::getProject()
Returns

Type | Description
--- | ---
\Project | Reference to current porject object

`getRegisterSlot( $slotName ) : void`

Returns a name

Parameters

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
$slotName |  |

`getRuntimeConfigurableWrapper( ) : \RuntimeConfigurable`

Returns the wrapper object for runtime configuration

Returns

Type | Description
--- | ---
\RuntimeConfigurable | The wrapper object used by this task

`getTaskName( ) : string`

Returns the name of task, used only for log messages

Returns

Type | Description
--- | ---
string | Name of this task

`getTaskType( ) : string`

Returns the name of the task under which it was invoked, usually the XML tagname

Returns

Type | Description
--- | ---
string | The type of this task (XML Tag)

`init( ) : void`

Called by the parser to let the task initialize properly.

Should throw a BuildException if something goes wrong with the build

This is abstract here, but may not be overloaded by subclasses.

Throws

Exception | Description
--- | ---
\BuildException |

`log( string $msg, integer $level = Project::MSG_INFO ) : void`

Provides a project level log event to the task.

@param string $msg The message to be logged.

Parameters

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
$msg | string | The message to log
$level | integer | The priority of the message

Details

See
  \BuildEvent
See
  \BuildListener

`main( ) : void`
abstract

Called by the project to let the task do it's work. This method may be called more than once, if the task is invoked more than once. For example, if target1 and target2 both depend on target3, then running phing target1 target2 will run all tasks in target3 twice.

Should throw a BuildException if someting goes wrong with the build

This is abstract here. Must be overloaded by real tasks.

`maybeConfigure( ) : void`

Configure this task if it hasn't been done already.

`perform( ) : void`

Perfrom this task

`setDescription( string $desc ) : void`

Sets a textual description of the task

Parameters

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
$desc | string | The text describing the task

`setLocation( \Location $location ) : void`

Sets the location within the buildfile this task occurs. Called by the parser to set location information.

Parameters

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
$location | \Location | The location object describing the position of this task within the buildfile.

`setOwningTarget( \Target $target ) : void`

Sets the owning target this task belongs to.

Parameters

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
$target | \Target | Reference to owning target

`setProject( \Project $project ) : void`
inherited

References the project to the current component.

Inherited from: \ProjectComponent::setProject()
Parameters

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
$project | \Project | The reference to the current project

`setRuntimeConfigurableWrapper( \RuntimeConfigurable $wrapper ) : void`

Sets the wrapper object this task should use for runtime configurable elements.

Parameters

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
$wrapper | \RuntimeConfigurable | The wrapper object this task should use

`setTaskName( $name ) : string`

Sets the name of this task for log messages

Parameters

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
$name |  |

Returns

Type | Description
--- | ---
string | A string representing the name of this task for log

`setTaskType( string $name ) : void`

Sets the type of the task. Usually this is the name of the XML tag

Parameters

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
$name | string | The type of this task (XML Tag)

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