* are different to when the task was last run.</p>
 */
@Documented
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target({ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.FIELD})
public @interface OutputFile {

                @OutputFile
                public File getOutputFile() {
                    return outputFile;
                }

                public void setOutputFile(File outputFile) {
                    this.outputFile = outputFile;
                }

                @Nested
                public NestedBeanWithAction getBean() {
                    return bean;
                }

    @Input
    private String text
    @OutputFile
    private File outputFile

    public String getText() {
        return text
    }

    public void setText(String text) {
        this.text = text
    }

    public File getOutputFile() {
        return outputFile
    }

    public void setOutputFile(File outputFile) {
        this.outputFile = outputFile
    }

    @TaskAction

    inputFiles.add(producerOne.get().outputFile)
    inputFiles.add(producerTwo.get().outputFile)
}

// Set values for the producer tasks lazily
// Don't need to update the consumer.inputFiles property. This is automatically updated as producer.outputFile changes
producerOne.configure { outputFile = layout.buildDirectory.file('one.txt') }
producerTwo.configure { outputFile = layout.buildDirectory.file('two.txt') }

                @InputFile inputFile
                @OutputFile outputFile

                @TaskAction copy() {
                    outputFile.parentFile.mkdirs()
                    outputFile.text = inputFile.text
                }
            }
            task customTask(type: NonCacheableTask) {
                inputFile = file("input.txt")
                outputFile = file("\$buildDir/output.txt")

    inputFile = producer.flatMap { it.outputFile }
}

producer {
    // Set values for the producer lazily
    // Don't need to update the consumer.inputFile property. This is automatically updated as producer.outputFile changes
    outputFile = layout.buildDirectory.file("file.txt")
}

// Change the build directory.

        buildFile << '''
            task customTask(type: CustomTask) {
                outputFile = file("$buildDir/outputFile")
                content = providers.gradleProperty('content').getOrElse(null)
            }

            class CustomTask extends DefaultTask {
                @OutputFile
                File outputFile

                @Input
                String content

                @TaskAction

    outputFile = layout.buildDirectory.file("file.txt")
}
tasks.register<Consumer>("consumer") {
    // Connect the producer task output to the consumer task input
    // Don't need to add a task dependency to the consumer task. This is automatically added
    message = producer.flatMap { it.outputFile }.map { it.asFile.readText() }

                ext.outputFile = file('customDocs.html')
                def outputFile = outputFile
                doLast {
                    outputFile << '<html/>'
                }
            }

            task regularFileTask {
                ext.outputFile = project.objects.fileProperty()
                outputs.file(outputFile)
                outputFile.set(file('regularFile-1.0.reg'))

                        parameters.compressedFile.set(inputFile)
                        parameters.textFile.set(outputFile)
                    }
                }
            }

            tasks.register("myTask", MyTask) {
                inputFile.set(createArchive.flatMap { it.outputFile })
                outputFile.set(layout.buildDirectory.file("unpacked/file.txt"))
            }
        """

        when: