Gradle task for deploying a file to Azure Blob Storage

AzureStorageDeployTask.groovy

package com.github.clemp6r.azuregradle

import org.gradle.api.DefaultTask

import com.microsoft.azure.storage.*;
import com.microsoft.azure.storage.blob.*
import org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskAction;

class AzureStorageDeployTask extends DefaultTask {

    String connectionString
    String container
    String fileToDeploy

    @TaskAction
    def deploy() {
        checkArguments()

        CloudStorageAccount account = CloudStorageAccount.parse(connectionString);
        CloudBlobClient serviceClient = account.createCloudBlobClient();

        CloudBlobContainer blobContainer = serviceClient.getContainerReference(container);
        blobContainer.createIfNotExists();

        def file = project.file(fileToDeploy)

        CloudBlockBlob blob = blobContainer.getBlockBlobReference(file.name);
        blob.upload(new FileInputStream(file), file.length());
    }

    private void checkArguments() {
        if (!connectionString) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("The 'connectionString' property is missing");
        }

        if (!container) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("The 'container' property is missing");
        }

        if (!fileToDeploy) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("The 'fileToDeploy' property is missing");
        }
    }
}

build.gradle

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    compile 'com.microsoft.azure:azure-storage:2.0.0'
}