Automatron.Tasks 0.0.0-alpha.6

Automatron.Tasks

The Automatron.Tasks .NET library is a task automation system that enables you to write task based workflows as .Net methods

Tasks can be are defined as void/async methods on one or many classes

Inheritance and interfaces are supported as well

• Quick start
• Dependencies
• Parameters

Quick start

• Create a .NET console app named Sample and add a reference to Automatron.Tasks.
• Replace the contents in Program.cs with:

using Automatron.Tasks;
using Automatron.Tasks.Annotations;

return await new TaskRunner().RunAsync(args);

namespace Sample;

public class Build
{
    [Task(Default = true)]
    public void Default()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Hello, world!");
    }

    [Task]
    public void Build()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Building my app");
    }
}

• Run the app. E.g. dotnet run or F5 in Visual Studio:

Tasks can be run via cmd arguments dotnet run -- Build

Dependencies

Dependencies are expression via the attributes

• DependentOn
• DependentFor

using Automatron.Tasks;
using Automatron.Tasks.Annotations;

return await new TaskRunner().RunAsync(args);

namespace Sample;

public class Build
{
    [Task(Default = true)]
    [DependentOn(nameof(Build))]
    public void Default()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Hello, world!");
    }

    [Task]
    public void Build()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Building my app");
    }
}

Parameters