Updating Light Blocks after setType() ?

As the title says, I'm having some troubles updating light blocks after I set its type to be glowstone for example.
If a player is not present in the block's chunk then the light is not updated. Is there any workarounds for this?

- Tried loading the chunk before the update but that failed.
- Tried making a virtual player place the block, failed
- Block.getState().update() failed

Any help or source code would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advanced

 

@Master_Queef Try Block#getState()#update()?

 

Also did not work.

 

Why do you want the block to update if a player isn't there, just asking?

 

My server has guns that have block destruction where you can shoot out lights and windows. I want the server to restore these blocks on restart when players are not present.

 

Shameless self bump

 

I think @BeYkeRYkt could tell you something helpful

 

Another bump for justice

 

I'm not going to mark the thread as 'Solved', but I made a working solution.

I sort all the blocks to recover by chunk, teleport myself to each chunk, delay about 2 seconds for the area to load, then restore all lights within that chunk. It's not exactly what I wanted, but it works and does not use NMS methods/variables.