Add cancellable tasks, optional response payload compression

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diff --git a/api/src/main/java/org/openslx/taskmanager/api/CancellableTask.java b/api/src/main/java/org/openslx/taskmanager/api/CancellableTask.java
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+package org.openslx.taskmanager.api;
+
+/**
+ * Implement this if you want your task to be cancellable.
+ * After cancel has been called, your task should try to clean up and leave
+ * its execute() method in a timely fashion.
+ * The execute() method must return false in that case (unless
+ * it could still do everything it was supposed to)
+ */
+public interface CancellableTask
+{
+
+	public void cancel();
+	
+}