# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

"""
***************************************************************************
    fromfunction.py
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    Date                 : May 2018
    Copyright            : (C) 2018 by Denis Rouzaud
    Email                : denis@opengis.ch
***************************************************************************
*                                                                         *
*   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify  *
*   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by  *
*   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or     *
*   (at your option) any later version.                                   *
*                                                                         *
***************************************************************************
"""

from .qgstaskwrapper import QgsTaskWrapper
from qgis._core import QgsTask


@staticmethod
def fromFunction(description, function, *args, on_finished=None, flags=QgsTask.AllFlags, **kwargs):
    """
    Creates a new QgsTask task from a python function.

    Example:

    def calculate(task):
        # pretend this is some complex maths and stuff we want
        # to run in the background
        return 5*6

    def calculation_finished(exception, value=None):
        if not exception:
            iface.messageBar().pushMessage(
                'the magic number is {}'.format(value))
        else:
            iface.messageBar().pushMessage(
                str(exception))

    task = QgsTask.fromFunction('my task', calculate,
            on_finished=calculation_finished)
    QgsApplication.taskManager().addTask(task)

    """

    assert function
    return QgsTaskWrapper(description, flags, function, on_finished, *args, **kwargs)