9.0.0-beta9 - adding jar dependency using from doesn't extract jar content

[rjaros]

Expected and Results

I have a custom ShadowJar task and I'm using from() method to add additional jar files. Up to beta8 the added jar files were extracted and that's what I need. But with beta9 they are not - they are just added as *.jar files to my shadow jar.
I have found some inconsistent comments about the from method usage. According to this:
https://github.com/GradleUp/shadow/blob/main/src/docs/configuration/README.md#adding-extra-files
the content should be extracted. But according to this PR #1250 it should not. So I'm not sure if the change was intentional? If the answer is yes, how can I achieve the old behaviour?

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[Goooler]

It's intended.

from means copying the file into the destination in the shadowed jar without unzipping, this is the correct behavior, which aligns with the behavior in Gradle's Jar task. The behavior before 9.0.0-beta9 is wrong...

If you still want to add extracted jars into the shadowed jar, please try out

dependencies {
  implementation file('foo.jar')
  implementation file('bar.jar')
  ..
}

[rjaros]

And how can I do this in a custom ShadowJar task? My current code looks like this:

tasks.register<ShadowJar>("myShadowTask") {
    // ...
    from(project.tasks["otherJarTask"].outputs.files)
    // ...
}

[Goooler]

Try to wrap your project.tasks["otherJarTask"].outputs with the configuration configured by myShadowTask, e.g.

dependencies {
  implementation project.tasks["otherJarTask"].outputs.files
  ..
}