service/taskqueue: Add NewPOSTTask, remove NewTask

service/taskqueue/task.go

Index: service/taskqueue/task.go
diff --git a/service/taskqueue/types.go b/service/taskqueue/task.go
similarity index 78%
copy from service/taskqueue/types.go
copy to service/taskqueue/task.go
index 1ce2bf88dcbc6988090795cd98a91ceca2712a5c..c24c2a6ee4f8198f2f164ccda500028dd80d3d84 100644
--- a/service/taskqueue/types.go
+++ b/service/taskqueue/task.go
@@ -2,32 +2,14 @@
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
-// This file contains types which are mirrors/duplicates of the upstream SDK
-// types. This exists so that users can depend solely on this wrapper library
-// without necessarially needing an SDK implementation present.
-//
-// This was done (instead of type-aliasing from the github version of the SDK)
-// because some of the types need to be tweaked (like Task.RetryOptions) to
-// interact well with the wrapper, and the inconsistency of having some types
-// defined by the gae package and others defined by the SDK was pretty awkward.
-
 package taskqueue
 
 import (
 	"net/http"
+	"net/url"
 	"time"
 )
 
-// Statistics represents statistics about a single task queue.
-type Statistics struct {
-	Tasks     int       // may be an approximation
-	OldestETA time.Time // zero if there are no pending tasks
-
-	Executed1Minute int     // tasks executed in the last minute
-	InFlight        int     // tasks executing now
-	EnforcedRate    float64 // requests per second
-}
-
 // RetryOptions let you control whether to retry a task and the backoff intervals between tries.
 type RetryOptions struct {
 	// Number of tries/leases after which the task fails permanently and is deleted.
@@ -98,6 +80,18 @@ type Task struct {
 	RetryOptions *RetryOptions
 }
 
+// NewPOSTTask creates a Task that will POST to a path with URL-encoded values.
+func NewPOSTTask(path string, params url.Values) *Task {
+	h := make(http.Header)
+	h.Set("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
+	return &Task{
+		Path:    path,
+		Payload: []byte(params.Encode()),
+		Header:  h,
+		Method:  "POST",
+	}
+}
+
 // Duplicate returns a deep copy of this Task.
 func (t *Task) Duplicate() *Task {
 	ret := *t