String templateText = Resources.asCharSource(templateURL, CharsetToolkit.getDefaultSystemCharset()).read();
            Template template = templateEngine.createTemplate(templateText);
            try (Writer writer = Files.asCharSink(target, Charsets.UTF_8, FileWriteMode.APPEND).openStream()) {
                template.make(bindings).writeTo(writer);
            }

        try (Reader reader = getTemplate().asReader()) {
            SimpleTemplateEngine engine = new SimpleTemplateEngine();
            Template template = engine.createTemplate(reader);
            String output = template.make(binding).toString();
            return TextUtil.convertLineSeparators(output, lineSeparator);
        } catch (IOException e) {

                    try {
                        SimpleTemplateEngine engine = new SimpleTemplateEngine();
                        engine.setEscapeBackslash(escapeBackslash.get());
                        template = engine.createTemplate(original);
                    } finally {
                        original.close();
                    }
                    StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();

        }
    }

    def getTemplate(File srcTemplate) {
        def template = templates[srcTemplate]
        if (!template) {
            try {
                template = engine.createTemplate(srcTemplate)
            } catch (Exception e) {
                throw new GradleException("Could not create template from source file '$srcTemplate'", e)
            }
            templates[srcTemplate] = template