* contents, expose the path of the file as an {@link org.gradle.api.tasks.Input} property instead.</p>
 */
@Documented
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target({ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.FIELD})
public @interface InputFile {

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                @InputFile
                final RegularFileProperty inputFile = project.objects.fileProperty()
                @OutputFile
                final RegularFileProperty outputFile = project.objects.fileProperty()

                @TaskAction
                void go() {
                    def file = outputFile.asFile.get()
                    file.text = inputFile.asFile.get().text
                }

        given:
        def inputFiles = (1..11).collect { inputDir.file("input${it}.txt") }
        inputFiles.each { it.createFile() }
        def newfile1 = inputDir.file("input12.txt")
        def newfile2 = inputDir.file("input13.txt")

        when:
        succeeds("theTask")
        newfile1.createFile()
        inputFiles[2].text = 'Modified file'
        inputFiles[7].delete()
        newfile2.createFile()

                inputFile: file(providers.gradleProperty('inputFile').get())
            )
        """
        file('inputFile.txt').text = "Test"

        expect:
        succeeds "test", "-PinputFile=inputFile.txt"

        when:
        file('different-file.txt').text = "Test"
        file("inputFile.txt").delete()
        run "test", "-PinputFile=different-file.txt"

        then:
        skipped(":test")

        when:

        buildFile << '''
public class TransformerTask extends DefaultTask {
    private File inputFile
    private File outputFile
    private String format = "[%s]"

    @InputFile
    public File getInputFile() {
        return inputFile
    }

    public void setInputFile(File inputFile) {
        this.inputFile = inputFile
    }

    @OutputFile
    public File getOutputFile() {
        return outputFile

    public File getInputFile() {
        return inputFile != null ? inputFile : getOutputFile();
    }

    // Workaround for when the task is given an input file that doesn't exist
    @Nullable  @Optional
    @PathSensitive(PathSensitivity.NONE)
    @InputFile
    protected File getInputFileIfExists() {
        File inputFile = getInputFile();
        if (inputFile != null && inputFile.exists()) {
            return inputFile;

        }
    }

    public static class TaskWithInputFile extends TaskWithAction {
        File inputFile;

        @Inject
        public TaskWithInputFile(File inputFile) {
            this.inputFile = inputFile;
        }

        @InputFile
        public File getInputFile() {
            return inputFile;
        }
    }

    public static class TaskWithInputDir extends TaskWithAction {

        def inputFile = file("input.txt")
        buildFile << """
            def inputFile = file("input.txt")
            def outputFile = file("build/output.txt")

            task consumer {
                inputs.file(inputFile)
                outputs.file(outputFile)
                doLast {
                    outputFile.text = inputFile.text
                }

import org.gradle.api.tasks.*

public class TransformerTask extends DefaultTask {
    private File inputFile
    private File outputFile
    private String format = "[%s]"

    @InputFile
    public File getInputFile() {
        return inputFile
    }

    public void setInputFile(File inputFile) {
        this.inputFile = inputFile
    }

    @OutputFile
    public File getOutputFile() {
        return outputFile