Make CustomizeBuildings config easier to read for other mods, example included

src/CustomizeBuildings/Customize_Buildings_ModIntegration.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+using HarmonyLib;
+using System;
+
+namespace CustomizeBuildings
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// This class can be copied by other mods to easily read values from the mod config of CustomizeBuildings
+    /// </summary>
+    public static class Customize_Buildings_ModIntegration
+    {
+        static object ConfigState = null;
+        public static bool IntegrationActive { get; private set; } = false;
+        static bool _initializationRun = false;
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Fetches a reference to the config state object to later read values from it
+        /// </summary>
+        public static void Init()
+        {
+            if (_initializationRun)
+                return;
+            _initializationRun = true;
+
+            ///fetch the config class type
+            var CustomizeBuildings_CustomizeBuildingsState = Type.GetType("CustomizeBuildings.CustomizeBuildingsState, CustomizeBuildings");
+            if (CustomizeBuildings_CustomizeBuildingsState == null)
+            {
+                Debug.Log("CustomizeBuildings types not found.");
+                return;
+            }
+            ///fetch the method info of the static getter method
+            var m_GetModConfigState = AccessTools.Method(CustomizeBuildings_CustomizeBuildingsState.GetType(), "GetModConfigState");
+            if (m_GetModConfigState == null)
+            {
+                Debug.LogWarning("CustomizeBuildings.CustomizeBuildingsState.GetModConfigState method not found.");
+                return;
+            }
+            ///fetch the mod config state object 
+            ConfigState = m_GetModConfigState.Invoke(null, null);
+            IntegrationActive = ConfigState != null;
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// wrapper that allows fetching a config state value of type T
+        /// Can only reliably be called after all mods are loaded, e.g. during a non-transpiler patch or in a building/entity definition method
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <typeparam name="T">type of the property to fetch</typeparam>
+        /// <param name="propertyName">name of the property</param>
+        /// <param name="value">fetched value of the property. default(T) if not found or the types dont match</param>
+        /// <returns>bool if the property was found successfully</returns>
+        public static bool TryGetConfigValue<T>(string propertyName, out T value)
+        {
+            value = default(T);
+            Init();
+            if (!IntegrationActive)
+                return false;
+
+            Traverse property = Traverse.Create(ConfigState).Property(propertyName);
+            if (!property.PropertyExists())
+            {
+                Debug.LogWarning("Mod Config State did not have a property with the name: " + propertyName);
+                return false;
+
+            }
+            object propertyValue = property.GetValue();
+            var foundType = propertyValue.GetType();
+            var T_Type = typeof(T);
+            if (foundType != T_Type)
+            {
+                Debug.LogWarning("Mod Config State had a property with the name: " + propertyName + ", but it was typeOf " + foundType.Name + ", instead of the expected " + T_Type.Name);
+                return false;
+            }
+
+            value = (T)propertyValue;
+            return true;
+        }
+    }
+}

src/CustomizeBuildings/_CustomizeBuildingsState.cs

@@ -14,6 +14,16 @@ namespace CustomizeBuildings
     [ModInfo(null, collapse: true)]
     public class CustomizeBuildingsState : IManualConfig
     {
+        /// <summary>
+        /// static method that returns the current config state.
+        /// Makes it possible for other mods to easily reflect for the config state to read values.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <returns></returns>
+        public static object GetModConfigState()
+        {
+            return StateManager.State;
+        }
+
         public int version { get; set; } = 59;
 
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