Extra Features

Interface Factories

Warning

This feature has never been battle tested.
It's been Reloaded's least used feature since release; no known mod uses this at time of writing.

Reloaded's API also provides a functionality to create all instances implementing a type.
You can do this through the MakeInterfaces method.

// _loader is an instance of IModLoader
var interfaces = _loader.MakeInterfaces<ISharedInterface>();

When you run the above code, Reloaded will iterate through every loaded mod and create an instance of every class implementing ISharedInterface.
The result of this operation (all instances) will be returned as an array.

Optional Dependencies

(OptionalDependencies in ModConfig.json)

Mods can also use the OptionalDependencies field instead of the ModDependencies field.
Doing so allows you to consume dependencies from the other package, but does not re-order the mod load order or give any warnings to the user.

As such, you should call GetController/MakeInterfaces from the OnModLoaderInitialized event (called when all mods are loaded).

IModLoader _loader;
WeakReference<IController> _controller;
void Start(IModLoaderV1 loader) 
{
   _loader = (IModLoader)loader;
   _loader.OnModLoaderInitialized += Initialized;
}

// Called by the mod loader after all mods finished loading.
void Initialized() 
{
    _controller = _loader.GetController<IController>();
}