I want to create a plugin that applies the shadow jar plugin and configures it, but i can’t figure out how to add shadowJar as a dependency to the plugin, I tried:

implementation("gradle.plugin.com.github.johnrengelman:shadow:7.1.2")

But i can’t reference ShadowJar class in my main plugin (binary) code Any advice?

It should work, right

Yeah i’m sure.

I think that the Shadow plugin is written in Groovy, so unless the

ShadowJar

class is compiled as static then it’s tough to use it from Kotlin or Java there’s an overview of Groovy/Kotlin interop here: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/kotlin_dsl.html#sec:interoperability

Just tried and it works as dependency for Kotlin Gradle Plugin, no problem, so it's not an issue of Groovy compatibility, otherwise it wouldn't work with Java and with Kotlin DSL