Hacky way to alter forgemods load order as you wish

Well, currently i working on addon\mod that alter behaivior of IC2e devices (replace tileentity class at runtime) (allow replicator to replicate all registered items without scanning process or patern storage).

For some reasons (i dont like APIs) i can's import IC2e API or state loadafter in mod's header soo i "developed" (actually joke, but still, there is no direct answer about it on google) method to change loadorder in runtime.

Also this method useless if you gone ASM coremod.

Source code below:

private void EnsureLastWord() throws Throwable
	{
		//this method allow mod to run LAST no matter what
		//if other mod use similar tecnique result is undefined

		Loader load = Loader.instance();
		UnsafeImp us = new UnsafeImp();

		LoadController lc = (LoadController) us.Read_Object(load, "modController");




		Object[] mcsA = lc.getActiveModList().toArray();

		List<ModContainer> lcn = new ArrayList();

		ModContainer last = null;

		for (Object x : mcsA)
	    {
			if (((ModContainer) x).getName().equals(modid))
			{
				last = (ModContainer) x;
				continue;
			}
			lcn.add((ModContainer) x);
		}
		lcn.add(last);

		us.Write_Object(lc,"activeModList",lcn);
	}
	@Mod.EventHandler
    public void StageA(FMLPreInitializationEvent e) throws Throwable
    {
		EnshureLastWord();
    }

Stage B run at postinit and ensured to run last.
Classcast done such wierd way for a reason.

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or state loadafter in mod's header

I know about loadafter annotation, but, this does not allow to define dynamic or config defined loadorder.

If you want some mod that alter loadorder of other mods, reflections are only way, howto described in FP.

this is just "note" for developers, not suggestion, not question.

I have plan:

1) GUI with drag and drop mod list.
2) GUI shoud popup at mod list initialization.
3) Mods will load in order defined by user, no matter what stated in mod annonations.

i have some problems with GUI, but, this is perfectly possible and will fix some of loadorder issues.

servers shoud run just fine via priority list configuration file with syntax like

modname#priority