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Using Shadow in Multi-Project Builds

When using Shadow in a multi-project build, project dependencies will be treated the same as external dependencies. That is a project dependency will be merged into the shadowJar output of the project that is applying the Shadow plugin.

Depending on the Shadow Jar from Another Project

In a multi-project build there may be one project that applies Shadow and another that requires the shadowed JAR as a dependency. In this case, use Gradle’s normal dependency declaration mechanism to depend on the shadow configuration of the shadowed project.

dependencies {
  implementation(project(path = ":api", configuration = "shadow"))
}

dependencies {
  implementation project(path: ':api', configuration: 'shadow')
}